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Comic Issues
Anthony Silva

Comic Issues #177 – Gam3rCon 2014

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Are you bummed that you couldn’t get Comic-Con tickets? Angry that you waited in the queue for hours and still got boned out of a Sunday pass? Have no fear sweet geek, Gam3erCon is here! Tucked away in the shadow of the

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Review: Year’s Best SF – 18

Around this time of year all the book publishers start talking about what you should be reading over the next couple of months. “Great Beach Books”, “Perfect Summer Reading”. No one gets very specific about the criteria though. Should the books be light and easy to read? Linked to big news stories or the latest

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Nick Melton

Review: “Dragon Quest VIII” for iOS

Reviewing a Dragon Quest game from an American standpoint is an interesting prospect. The long-running RPG series is a cultural phenomenon in its native Japan. Those in the Japanese gaming industry consider it Japan’s national game, with new Dragon Quest games selling up to four million copies. The series has received live-action ballet adaptations, and its music

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Michael Bay and the Transformers are back for Transformers: Age of Extinction. The forth in the series is more of a reboot in a sense that there’s a whole new cast of human characters and some returning bots from the first three films. This time around, the transformers are enemies of the government and are being hunted

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Transformers

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Leland, Elizabeth from Comic Issues, and Spooky all sat down and watched Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers. It’s a rant-filled episode as Leland and Spooky get schooled by Elizabeth about Transformers from back in the day. Spooky gets into all the race issues

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Anthony Silva

Comic Issues #176 – Catching Up Chronologically

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week Anthony and Elizabeth dig deep into the World of Geek and catch up on current events from the sad death of film, radio, and geek icon Casey Kasem, to Han Solo’s battlefield injuries, to DC’s casting rumors and possible slate

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Review: Evolution’s Darling

Scott Westerfeld is one of the kings of Young Adult books. He’s written four different series; “Midnighters”, “Peeps”, “Leviathan”, and the hugely popular 4-book saga “Uglies”. And I’ve read exactly…none of them. Yes, I know that’s a big oversight, especially since Westerfeld spent about four years at the top of my list of favorite authors. The Magazine of Fantasy

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Tech Review – Wacom Intous Pro

by Caleb Cleveland Along with Wacom‘s rebranding of the Intuos line of digitizing tablets for enthusiasts or hobbyists (replacing their Bamboo line), they created the more up-market Intuos Pro line, intended for professional use. Judging from the mid-size tablet I’m reviewing, the Pros are all sturdy and sleek with a black matte finish, and can

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Review: Fable Anniversary – Xbox 360

We all have those special memories: moments in our lives that really changed our outlook. Sometimes for us gamers, it’s a particular game, and for me it was having my eyes open to Western RPGs. I had just purchased the gigantic original Xbox and was looking for something other then Halo 2 to play. I

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