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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Mass Effect – Annihilation (Andromeda #3)

“I’m not accusing anyone, I’m trying to show you that we don’t even know what we don’t know.” Award-winning author Catherynne Valente gets to play in the Mass Effect sandbox with the latest novel in the Andromeda series. This installment is something of a buddy cop/murder mystery/sci-fi disaster movie. In space. The Quarian ark Keelah

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Gaming
Jordan Pollock

Review: YIIK: A Post Modern RPG

It was the Spring of 1999 when protagonist Alex returned home after graduating from college. Although set on leading a normal life, Alex is thrust into a psychedelic world of alien creatures, plastic androids, and a cat with a Salvador Dali mustache. Inspired by classic JRPGS like Earthbound and Wild Arms, YIIK: A Post Modern RPG looks to

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Catwoman #7 and The Batman Who Laughs #2

One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to keep on top of my comic book reading (I know I know, it should be “eat more vegetables” and “take that Javascript class” but I like resolutions I know I’ll keep) so this week I’m doubling up: see below for a review of Catwoman #7 and The

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Elevation

Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel.  It’s also a

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Comic Books
Leland Pierce

Best Comic Books of 2018

As many readers and listeners know I manage a comic book store. So, I read a lot of comics throughout the year. And most are pretty darn good, but sometimes I come across a comic series that is so good I have to talk about it. Here are 10 great comics from this past year

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Die #2

Now that we’re solidly into 2019 I’ve started a new list: comics I should’ve been reading in 2018 and am now kicking myself for waiting so long. Some of them are practically finished already (I’m looking at you, The Magic Order) but luckily the first series on my list only started in December, so I

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Reviews
Leland Pierce

Top Ten Movies of 2018

Another year has come to an end and that means it’s time for everyone to have their own top ten movies of 2018 list. And I can’t be left out! So here it is… Leland’s TOP TEN MOVIES of 2018! These were the movies that moved me or gave me the feeling of “wow” when

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Books
Kathryn Adams

The Best Books of 2018

2018 was a year that produced a staggering number of excellent books. Some of them were by my usual favorite authors, and some were by authors I only recently discovered. The good news is that I always had plenty to choose from whenever I needed something new to read. The bad news is that there

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