Category: Reviews

Review: The War of the Worlds

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive. It’s October, and that means a whole month of scary-book reviews! First up is H.G. Wells’s 1897 classic The War of the Worlds, and…what? Okay, I know it’s technically a science fiction book.

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Gaming
Andrew Plein

Review: Worms WMD – Xbox One

Before the popularity of online gaming the term multiplayer had a different meaning. Well okay, it meant the same thing literally, but there was something special about having a friend over in the real world and playing a game together. There are a handful of games that do this, but Worms took it to a whole

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Review: The King’s Traitor

                   The game is ending. Jeff Wheeler brings the Kingfountain trilogy to a close with The King’s Traitor, an epic story drawing partly from English history but mostly from Arthurian legend. Owen Kiskaddon has served his regent faithfully these last few years. Well, except for the fact that

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Frostbite #1

The world is buried under ice and what’s left of humanity struggles to survive. The rich have their artificial suns and the poor tear each other apart for a few minutes of warmth. But hey, it could be worse, right? Of course it could. Click the jump for preview pages and a review of Vertigo’s

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Review: Transformers More Than Meets The Eye #57

It’s here: in case you missed the announcement this summer, this week is the final, very last issue of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. And if you totally missed that announcement and are currently having a heart attack, you’ll be happy to hear that the book is being rebranded as Transformers: Lost Light starting in

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Books
llyzabeth

Review: The Raven and the Reindeer

I read The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher (known as Ursula Vernon to her friends, and ursulav to those of us who follow her on deviantart) back in February and I loved it to pieces, but I didn’t write the review right away. Fast forward six months and I thought if I want

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Review: Doctor Strange – Strange Origin

Are you ready for the Doctor Strange movie in November? Are you? ‘CAUSE I SURE AM.  While we wait, I decided to check out the Doctor Strange: Strange Origin graphic novel that Marvel released this month. Although when you get right down to it, 99% of this is a re-release since it’s a repackaging of Greg Pak and Emma Rios’s Doctor

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