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Captain Marvel #7 and Ms. Marvel #8 (Comics Review)

Last month both Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel closed out on their first major arcs, establishing a great story and direction for both titles. Amazingly, both titles have found strong readership with their respective reboots, and of the two Ms. Marvel has been the most successful with the debut of teenager Kamala Khan, daughter of Pakistani […]

Hammer of Angels by G. T. Almasi (Book Review)

G.T. Almasi’s debut to his smash-read Blades of Winter arrived in February 2014, but thanks to reviewer privileges I got to read the novel much earlier, in December 2012 itself. I didn’t like the sequel as much as I’d liked the debut, but it proved to be a good enough read in the end and […]

Blades of Winter by G. T. Almasi (Book Review)

G. T. Almasi debuted in late summer 2012 with his debut novel Blades of Winter, the first in the Shadowstorm series. It was a novel that captivated me from the get go, being a very modern James Bond-style action-thriller that also reminded me that I loved the action-espionage-drama-thriller genre mash-up. In light of The Founding […]

The Death of Wolverine #2 (Comics Review)

Last week Charles Soule and Steve McNiven debuted their first issue of Death of Wolverine, and it was a pretty great issue. The word is out in the supervillain-verse that Wolverine is vulnerable like never before, having lost his crucial healing factor, and someone out there has declared open hunting season on him. Charles Soule’s […]

Edge of Spider-Verse #1 (Comics Review)

This is the “Big” year for Spider-Man. In addition to Peter Parker coming back from the dead and sending Doc Ock to his just rewards, there’s an even going to happen soon in which all Spider-heroes from across time and space are going to unite against a common menace. We’ve already seen some inkling of […]

The Horns of Ruin by Tim Akers (Book Review)

Back in 2012, Tim Akers’ The Horns of Ruin was my first distinct steampunk novel. And I liked it quite a bit. It gave me a taste of the genre and made me want to read more in it. I haven’t really gotten around to that unfortunately, reading only a novel here and there at […]

Comics Picks For 03.09.2014

With DC Comics’ Future’s End event kicking off last Wednesday, this was a great week for reading since I got through the comics pile faster than I’d believed I could. And I even managed to read a graphic novel! Anyway, the surprise hits of this week were Action Comics: Future’s End #1 and Batwing: Future’s […]

Grimm Fairy Tales: Warlord of Oz #1-2 (Comics Review)

In light of some of the recent events that have happened in the Grimmverse, such as the Age of Darkness brought about by the Dark Queen and the Dark One, I’ve become much more invested in the setting than I was a few months ago. Whether Wonderland or Oz or Myst, I want to read […]

Horus Heresy: Know No Fear by Dan Abnett (Book Review)

Black Library’s Horus Heresy series is a worldwide bestseller, and with good reason. Many of the novels and anthologies and audio dramas have ranged from good to stellar with very few bad apples in between. The series started off innocuously enough, but it has since then become the publisher’s flagship range, also with good reason. […]

Born To Us by Dan Abnett (Short Story Review)

Black Library started its trend of micro-shorts back in 2012 and it is something that has really caught on since. With a word-length ranging from 1,000-2,000 words, these shorts are great teasers for various characters and events within Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Dan Abnett kicked off the 2012 Black Library Advent Calendar with […]