Captain Kel Cheris of the Hexarchate may have won a battle, but she’s been officially disgraced for using forbidden strategies to do it. Ordinarily this would mean execution – or worse – but she’s been given a chance to redeem herself. Heretics have captured The Fortress of Scattered Needles, and to recover it Cheris will
Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew—with only a healer’s daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way. See below for a review of Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay’s graphic novel The Last Dragon.
On Free Comic Book Day (Saturday May 7!) we’ll finally get to see Spectrum. Not a preview or a handful of pages, but a full-length issue from writers Alan Tudyk and PJ Haarsma and artist Sarah Stone, the artist of Transformers: Windblade, so I was throwing my money at them as soon as I heard
“…The Shakespeare Notebooks is an astonishing document that offers a unique insight into the mind of one of history’s most respected and admired figures. And also, of course, William Shakespeare.” Tomorrow marks 400 years since William Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil. In that time his reputation has grown from a somewhat well-known playwright to
All Hail Optimus part 3! Optimus Prime has declared the Earth to be his territory… but even he can’t go it alone. Now he reaches out across the galaxy to form a coalition — of old friends and older enemies. Click the jump for preview pages and a review of Transformers #52!
The beautiful cover art for C.S.E. Cooney’s 2015 book Bone Swans was what first caught my eye. The fact that it’s a short-story collection meant I’d definitely get around to reading it sooner or later, but seeing that at least two of the stories were retold fairy tales sealed the deal; a 99-cent sale for an e-copy of the book
This dark, sprawling realm is rife with unimaginable creatures, feral beauties and dazzling temptations the likes of which you have never seen. Luckily, you have a guidebook… I got lucky with this review: I wanted to take a look at the upcoming Court of the Dead: The Chronicle of the Underworld just because I liked the
Jon Favreau’s remake/reimagining/retooling/reboot of Walt Disney’s 1967 animated classic The Jungle Book tells the same story we’ve all come to know as kids and into adulthood: Mowgli, an orphaned human boy, sets out with his animal guardians on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threat of the evil Shere Khan. That’s the story at its core,
It’s an interesting question that I feel most comic nerds can answer: who are your Teen Titans? While generationally for me it should’ve been the Cartoon Network Teen Titans, it was a series I largely skipped, as it just didn’t appeal to me. My first true introduction was Geoff Johns’ Teen Titans Vol 1. While the vs