After years of teaser trailers and the whole Moby Dick Studios thing, the first bit of Metal Gear Solid V has finally been released in the form of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (MGSV:GZ). Since its release, people have been scratching their heads trying to figure out what exactly to classify Ground Zeroes as. For all intents
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
Humankind first ventured into space in 1961. More than twenty years earlier C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in a trilogy of stories linking space travel, alien minds, and a war within the solar system, to Lewis’s overarching view of a benevolent God. The
Schwarzenegger is back, again. You just can’t keep this legend down. This time he’s staring in Sabotage, the new film from director David Ayer (End of Watch). We find Arnold is the leader of an elite DEA task force who find themselves being taken down one by one after they bust a drug cartel safe
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
Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning. The End is Nigh is about the match. I love short story collections – eat them up like candy, actually, so expect to see me review one every few weeks – but sometimes it’s hard to find one with
Yet again, another post apocalyptic young adult novel turned movie is upon us, Divergent. Sharing the same name as the novel written by Veronica Roth and the movie being directed by Neil Burger. The world of Divergent is set 100 years in a futuristic Chicago, people are divided into five distinct factions based on their
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
Venture Bros. has to be one of my favorite shows, especially from Adult Swim, but I was a little torn with how Season 4 ended. It wasn’t bad by any means, to be honest it was a near perfect ending. The idea hurt: I didn’t want to see my favorite series go – I just