You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Our favorite comic shop is moving! Don’t worry, they’re not going far. The Villainous Lair Comic Shop and Game Shop are moving just down the street. This week on the podcast we’ll tell you about the new space that’s big enough to
If you haven’t checked out Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s title Beasts of Burden, the latest one-shot, Hunters and Gatherers, is a good place to start. The premise is clever and fun; a pack of neighborhood pets become paranormal investigators and save the local animals from monsters. The story is so well written that even
Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation, the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy, is equal parts science-fiction, horror, and philosophy. It’s well-written, but I don’t think it’s for everybody. I’m pretty sure it’s not for me anyway, but I don’t think that makes it a bad book.
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We’re now in the second week of the Throne of Geekdom, where the icons of TV, movies, animation, comics, and games are fighting it out for your love. Remember, it’s not who would win in a fight (because, really, then Superman wins
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Like we said last week, everybody’s busy. But somehow we cram in a few things when we’re not at our jobs. Sometimes it’s freelance work, sometimes it’s getting a new place, sometimes it’s watching COMPLETELY AWESOME TRAILERS. And sometimes it’s dealing with
The Blood Guard by Carter Roy wasn’t anything like what I’d expected. The main character Ronan may be a teenager who’s stumbled across a world of swords and sorcery and automatic weapons, but this is not one of those stories where he turns out to be some kind of “chosen one” or demigod. Not even
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Everybody’s working so hard lately, but there’s two kinds of working. First there’s the building, designing, digging, power-tools kind of working. We’re doing a lot of that. But there’s also catching up on all the awesome geeky stuff out there. All those
Reading the first issue of Leaves on the Wind, Dark Horse’s answer to a second season of Firefly, put me on a Joss Whedon kick, so I went through my collection of Joss-created comics. I wasn’t surprised to find that even though it’s been ten years since Fray was released as a graphic novel, it
This book was released less than a month ago, but it’s already causing a stir, and it’s easy to see why. Red Rising has elements that will be familiar to anyone who’s read books like Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, or Divergent, but Pierce Brown has taken these concepts and made them into something original and