Someone had to bring back the rains, and apparently it was going to have to be him. All towns have a little magic somewhere, but the luckiest ones have their own mage. A mage is handy to have around to deal with small problems like poison ivy, or gremlins in the mill. It’s been years
Sparkle Kitty is a really fun game where each player chooses a princess who has been stuck in a tower. The cards have silly and obnoxious words in them like Boo-Boo, Fairy, and Glitter. The goal of the game is to escape the tower by removing tower cards to release your fun princess.
Can’t Catch Harry is a recently fulfilled Kickstarter project from James Rallison. Rallison is better known as the talent behind the animated YouTube channel Odd 1s Out. The design of the game is cute, and the packaging is great. The game itself looks fun: with bright colors and wonderful moth pieces, which little kids should
“But I know it’s not easy, or simple. I’m not sure anything is, now.” “You have no idea.” Keep reading for a review of Transformers #10 (2019).
“You will need all your wits, Desdemona Mannering, all your scimitar wiles, to bargain with Kalos Kantzaros in Breakers Beyond.” C.S.E. Cooney (author of The Bone Swans: Stories) returns with a brand new stand-alone novella, Desdemona and the Deep, set in the same world from her Dark Breakers series.
“Yes. Erm. Ms. Arkin.” He coughed. “I’m afraid you don’t have any magical infusion whatsoever. Your entire education here has been a huge mistake.” This is how nineteen-year-old Alison Arkin finds out that – despite what the recruiters told her – she doesn’t have magical powers. All she has is an (admittedly impressive) eidetic memory
I’m touring the black market, and you’re my fourth stop. I’m getting bored. So either you tell me you traded with that dead Voin, or I’ll see if I can put a you-shaped hole in this wall. Keep reading for a review of Transformers #9 (2019).
Dark Horse Books has been releasing a steady stream of stand-alone short stories by Neil Gaiman, each of them illustrated by a prominent artist. The latest one (due out on August 20th) manages to once again do the impossible: it takes a story that I already thought was perfect and makes it even better. Click
By an odd coincidence, all three of the Hugo-nominated novelettes I saved for last are about memory and death. Hard-hitting stuff here. They’re also about the stories we tell and why we tell them: to remember the past, to link us to each other, and to make us reach for something more than just survival.