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llyzabeth

aka Elizabeth Wallace. Full-time graphic designer, part-time book reviewer and violinist. Slightly weird, usually nice, occasionally grumpy, always preoccupied.
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Comic Issues #165 – The Return of Ross Thompson!

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Back by popular demand, we’ve got Boss Ross Thompson on the podcast! Creator and coordinator of Kingdom-Con here in San Diego, Ross is a major name in SCA and tabletop gaming, and visits over 20 conventions every year. And as long as

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Review: Megatokyo Omnibus Edition

I stumbled across a beat-up, dog-eared copy of Megatokyo Volume 1 at the library ten years ago, and loved it so much I had to go buy my own copy, even though you can read it for free at megatokyo.com. Fred Gallagher’s art is so charming, with such a great story, it’s one of those

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Review: Doctor Sleep

In his afterwards, Stephen King points out that he almost didn’t write Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. The trouble with sequels, he points out, is that no matter how brilliant it is, there will always be someone who’ll read it and say “Nope, nope, it’s just not as good. And he’s right. You

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Comic Issues #163 – Moving Day!

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

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Review – Beasts of Burden: Hunters & Gatherers

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

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Review: Annihilation

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.

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Comic Issues #161 – The Battle For Your Love

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

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Comic Issues #160 – Guardians of the Everything Else

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

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Review: The Blood Guard

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

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