Category: Reviews

Review: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

Only seventeen more days until Star Wars: The Force Awakens is finally released! To celebrate, all of the book reviews in December will be Star Wars themed. There’s over thirty years of novels to choose from after all, so there shouldn’t be any trouble finding material. And it seems only fitting to start by going all the way back

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Review – Transformers More Than Meets The Eye #47

Friendship ISN’T magic. Tailgate has a choice to make—and if he had any idea what was at stake, he’d think twice before making it. The crew is ripped apart as More Than Meets The Eye begins the sprint towards its shocking 50th issue! Click the jump for a review of More Than Meets the Eye #47!

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Review: Nightwise

It was supposed to be one last favor for an old friend: track down the man who tortured and murdered Branko Bojich’s wife (along with many, many other people) and exact revenge so that a dying man could have some measure of peace in his last few days. Dusan Slorzack seems to have dropped off the face of

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Empowered Special #7: Pew Pew Pew!

The laser blasts fly as costumed crime fighter Empowered battles a series of puzzlingly rage-fueled supervillains, each one armed with a bigger and more destructive “supergun” than the last. Ah, but might our long-suffering heroine’s own buried resentments and repressed bitterness prove to be her deadliest foes? (SPOILER: Yes, pretty much.) A new, stand-alone issue

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Alabaster: the Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1

A new evil haunts the sun-scorched back roads and ghost towns of the American South—murderous twins who command a legion of ghouls. Once again, Dancy Flammarion must face down demons: both those who walk the world unchallenged and those in her own shattered mind. Click the jump for preview pages and a review of Alabaster:

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Gaming
Andrew Plein

Review: Rise of the Tomb Raider – Xbox One

Before the reboot of the Tomb Raider series my experience with Lara Croft was extremely limited. I saw the movies with Angelina and even watched my wife play through most of the series. While the game certainly seemed entertaining I just didn’t see Lara’s true potential – until the reboot. Fast forward and we are

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Review: Tyson Hesse’s Diesel #3

The manga/steampunk adventure continues, as Dee tries to figure out what’s happened to her airship, who shot it down, and how in the world did she end up on the ground (since the clouds are so deadly…aren’t they?) Click the jump for preview pages and a review of Tyson Hesse’s Diesel #3.

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Review: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Anyone who regularly reads my book reviews will know I love short story collections. Anthologies by many different authors are great; collections by one of my favorite authors are even better. And there are two authors who could make me run a marathon if they told me they had a new collection waiting for me

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