I am going to assume you have heard of this thing called steampunk. Fantasy with a decided technological edge to it and settings ranging from just slightly off historical to full blown space opera style. I have seen the costumes at GenCon and the comic con I recently attended and was very impressed with the […]
Thanksgiving and Black Friday Age of Ultron – March 2013 Star Trek Into Darkness – 9 minutes with Hobbit! Batman Batgirl #14 Batgirl #14 Batman and Robin #14 All New X-Men #1 New Avengers #33 Avengers Assemble #9 Fantastic Four #1 Thor: God of Thunder #1 Saga #7 Invincble #97 Comic Collector’s Rant is featured […]
The weekend is upon us. For some of us, this presents a variable amount of free time with which to indulge ourselves. The options that are available can seem somewhat dizzying at times and I want to help by telling you about one thing that you might enjoy. If you are of a cinematic bent, […]
Joining Mark and Aron this month is Phil and his guitar, both visiting from California. Mark’s home brewed apple beer Harpoon Brewery’s Rich & Dan’s Rye IPA Laughing Dog – Rocket Dog Rye IPA Schmaltz’ Hebrew Lenny’s Bittersweet Double Rye IPA Firestone and Robertson’s TX Blended Whiskey Continue the discussion! Leave us a comment in […]
Andrew is back, and The Secret Lives of Julie Newmar Hellblazer ending and Guillermo del Toro’s Justice League Dark movie JLA’s 52 variant covers James Bond: Skyfall! Iron Man #1 Deadpool #1 World’s Finest #6 Detective Comics #14 Shadowman #1 Storm Dogs #1 Fly Vol 2 #1 You can join the countdown to the return […]
A few weeks ago I headed out to my local comic shop for a little retail therapy. While I picked my few comics I spied an interesting book on the shelf. It was entitled Night’s Black Agents by Kenneth Hite. I knew that having Mr. Hite as the author meant that this was going to […]
It’s all too easy to write off the Dark Ages as a time of superstition and ignorance. It is much harder to try to get into the mindset of the people of that time and try to understand why they believed what they believed. While things like bleeding people to rebalance their humors seem the […]
It can be very hard for a GM to surprise the players in a Call of Cthulu game. After all paranoia is the name of the game. (Actually, Paranoia is the name of a different game, but you know what I mean.) The whole point of most Call of Cthulu games is that there are […]
Disney buys STAR WARS! Bryan Singer returning to the X-Men Jamie Foxx as Alpha? Paul’s TMNT Incident New Alpha Miniseries Justice League Dark Annual #1 (and Jeff Lemire is leaving the title?) Action Comics Annual #1 Batman: Lil’ Gotham #1 Superman: Earth One Volume 2 Ultimate Comics X-Men #18 You can join the countdown to […]
I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time on Kickstarter as of late. It has become an incubator for new games and allows creators and fans another avenue for connecting. It has become the first place I check when I am looking for a new game to buy or for something unique to support. It […]