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Samurai Jack #10-12 (Comics Review)

It may just be me, but I think that with his work on Samurai Jack that writer-artist Jim Zub has really mastered the art of standalone storytelling. Each of his issues, whether they are part of an arc or not, really feel like great self-contained stories, and that’s one of the things that I love […]

G.I. Joe v4 #1 (Comics Review)

I’ve long been a fan of G.I. Joe in all its forms, whether as an animated television series or as comics or as action figures. The recent movies have been the only disappointing part of my life-long G.I. Joe experience, sadly enough, but it is very easy to look past them for there is a […]

Trinity Rising by Elspeth Cooper (Book Review)

Trinity Rising is Elspeth Cooper’s 2012 sequel to her 2011 debut Songs of the Earth, and is the second novel in her Wild Hunt epic fantasy series. Going into the novel, I had quite high expectations of it since the debut was a fairly strong debut novel on its own and was one of my […]

Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper (Book Review)

Two and a half years ago I got it in my head to make an effort to read as many of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award shortlisted nominees as I could. Maybe it was because all these finalists were debut authors of the previous year or something, but I thought that it would be a […]

Judge Dredd: 99 Code Red by Jonathan Clements (Audio Review)

Up until mid-2011 I had never listened to an audio drama and didn’t even really know what it was. Then, I suddenly got on a kick to listen to all of Black Library’s various audio dramas that I could, and in 2012 I expanded that to Judge Dredd audios from Big Finish. These were some […]

The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra R. Clarke (Book Review)

In 2012, Angry Robot Books launched its Young Adult fiction imprint Strange Chemistry. One of the very first titles to be released under the new imprint was Cassandra R. Clarke’s debut novel The Assassin’s Curse. This was one of the very first YA titles I’d read at the time, and it was kind of an […]

Future’s End #21 (Comics Review)

The recent round of Future’s End issues have done much to deepen various mysteries, as well as tying together several stand-alone plot-strands that didn’t seem all that important until recently. One of the biggest mysteries however was how Green Arrow died back in Future’s End #1/Future’s End #2, or even what killed him. In this month’s Green Arrow: […]

Future’s End: Catwoman and G.I. Zombie (Comics Review)

This is the last and final week of Future’s End one-shots and it seems that this is kind of like the first week where the one-shots were all generally damn good. Most of the ones I’ve read so far have been excellent, such as Harley Quinn or Justice League Dark, thankfully enough. There’ve been a few titles that haven’t made […]

Deep Gravity #3 (Comics Review)

I’ve mentioned before that I love reading space opera, a lot, and recently I’ve started reading horror SF as well and am having quite a fun time of it with Caliban from Avatar Press and Deep Gravity from Dark Horse. The latter is a hot new title from Dark Horse and in its first two […]

The Return of Nagash by Josh Reynolds (Book Review)

The End Times have begun for Warhammer Fantasy. The hordes of Chaos are pouring in from the North even as vast armies of Daemons lay siege to Ulthuan and the Skaven rise up from the Under-Empire to claim dominance on the surface world. Bretonnia and the Empire face enemies of their own and heroes and […]