Planet Hulk
I was surprised to find “Planet Hulk” on the new movie shelf this week, not having seen any trailers for the project at all. Given Lion’s Gate’s track record with Marvel properties, and especially with...
View ArticleCrisis on Two Earths
Alternate and parallel earths are a staple of modern science-fiction, due in no small part to the prevalence, or even dominance, of these stories in the pages of the DC comics titles all through the...
View ArticleScott Roche Writes Ghost Stories
When Scott Roche titles his new story “Fetch”, it’s a safe bet he’s not on about that cartoon dog that runs his own game show. In Irish folklore, a “fetch” is a more or less benign spirit that appears...
View ArticleDimension of the Mind
Winston reviews "Zero Hour" by Stoney M. Setzer, and collection of spiritual suspense stories by ResAliens in paper and electronic formats.
View ArticleSucker Punch Gut Shot
If you’ve found this review, chances are you’ve already read half a dozen others either deploring Zack Snyder’s film for its concept or praising it for its appearance. All those reviewers are wrong....
View ArticleReactor Leak – Monster Sighting
Atomic Earth news! The unstable isotopes are degrading, and the first revised monster cards have leaked! Powered by Max Banner Ads
View ArticleA Slab to Call My Own
The October challenge over at the Board Game Designer’s Forum was to create a Dorn Tower/Mancala variant. Well the voting is in and my entry….. lost to a more unique one. But I went ahead and finished...
View ArticleShining Spirit Blade of Victory
It’s hard to talk about Spirit Blade without sounding like either a raving fanboy or a nitpicky hater. I purchased the first edition of this story to listen to it in the car on family vacation. I was...
View ArticleWith a Vengeance
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance roared into theaters this weekend, and I squeezed some time out to catch an early matinee. I’ve been a Ghost Rider fanboy since 1982, when Roger Stern shared the...
View ArticleThe Odds Favor a Sequel
Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” debuted in US theaters this week, to much hype and the attendance of many teenagers. For both of you who may be unfamiliar with this violent work of chick-lit, in a...
View ArticleSimon Vector is live and free for a limited time.
Fresh from The League Entertainment, Simon Vector takes Amazon.com by storm this weekend. If you missed last year’s Kickstarter event, Simon Vector is a cypher, a mystery man caught between life and...
View ArticleBattleship Down
The trailers for Battleship give everything away, if anything can be said to be secret about a movie based on Hasbro’s popular board game. There are naval vessels. There are aliens. They fight. Without...
View ArticleSuperman vs The Elite
In 2001’s Action Comics #775 , writer Joe Kelly asked the question, “What’s so funny about Truth, Justice, and the American Way?” Kelly was responding in part to a trend in comic books that embraced...
View ArticleOnly War
“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” Warhammer 40K brought the mythology of the wildly successful Warhammer Fantasy world into space, extending the mythos to embrace sci-fi...
View ArticleRocco’s Retreads
Henry “Hank” Brown came to my attention because we both participate in the action-adventure forums over at mackbolan.com. I bought his book simply because he came on the forums, mentioned the novel and...
View ArticleRecorded Live!
The Girl Genius Radio Theatre material has been floating around fandom for some years, but has become increasingly difficult to find. Under the terms of the Studio Foglio fansite guidelines and using a...
View ArticleMinor Heroes part 1
In this episode of Minor Heroes, Agatha, Zeetha, and Krosp awaken in the Fortress of Blue Mice to find their problems are a little … larger … than they were yesterday. Not to be confused with Agatha’s...
View ArticleMinor Heroes part 2
In this episode of Minor Heroes, we discover the author of our plight to be none other than Othar Trygvassen, Gentleman Adventurer. How will Agatha and company cross the vast gulf to Othar’s shrinking...
View ArticleMinor Heroes part 3
In this episode of Minor Heroes, Agatha and company assault Othar’s shrinking machine. Hope he remembers to tell them about the booby traps! Not to be confused with Agatha’s official history, these are...
View ArticleThe Sleepy Clank part 1
In this episode of The Sleepy Clank, Agatha attempts to catch forty well-deserved winks in the wake of a hard day of hero-ing. But it seems the Jager’s may have other ideas … Not to be confused with...
View ArticleThe Sleepy Clank part 2
In this episode of The Sleepy Clank, Agatha and company try to puzzle out the purpose of a mysterious clank while Othar Trygvassen assures them he is a Gentleman first and Adventurer second. It says so...
View ArticleThe Sleepy Clank part 3
In this episode of The Sleepy Clank, the true purpose of the mysterious clank makes itself know. But there may be a little problem with its logic circuits…. Not to be confused with Agatha’s official...
View ArticleDeathwish Dupree part 1
In this episode of Deathwish Dupree, Agatha and company confront the author of the Agatha Heterodyne novels. While sorting things out, Agatha is kidnapped by the infamous Deathwish Dupree. Let’s hope...
View ArticleDeathwish Dupree part 2
In this episode of Deathwish Dupree, Othar and Zeetha hire an airship of their own in hot pursuit of Deathwish Dupree. But when they finally catch up, it may be Agatha riding to their rescue…. Not to...
View ArticleDeathwish Dupree part 3
In this episode of Deathwish Dupree, Agatha decides she likes the life of a Pirate Queen and launches herself tail over toolbelt into Deathwish Dupree’s engine room. A little tinkering and few random...
View ArticleRevenge of the Weasel Queen part 1
In this episode of Revenge of the Weasel Queen, Othar Trygvassen journeys to rescue a small hamlet from the infamous Weasel Queen. Of course he can’t do without his spunky girl sidekick! Not to be...
View ArticleRevenge of the Weasel Queen part 2
In this episode of Revenge of the Weasel Queen, Agatha and team improvise some emergency disguises and come up with a daring plan to rescue Othar from the warren of giant killer bunnies that stand in...
View ArticleRevenge of the Weasel Queen part 3
In this episode of Revenge of the Weasel Queen, the climactic confrontation between the forces of good and a warren of giant killer bunnies loyal only to the Weasel Queen threatens all of reality as we...
View ArticleStress Track Over 9000!
The Fate System measures health, willpower, composure, structural integrity and even the progress of a scene using the Stress Track mechanic. This measurement tool flexes to adjust to the current...
View ArticleFox Fall part 1: Gotham
.fb-like span{overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px;} Fox television groans with the weight of mythology. And you thought it was the audience. It probably says...
View ArticleFox Fall part 2: Sleepy Hollow
.fb-like span{overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px;} If Gotham’s mythology weights it down from sheer volume, then Sleepy Hollow is hopelessly submerged in the...
View ArticleThe God Conspiracy
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } One e-mail. Five lines. 4,000 dead. And it is only just beginning… When a small boy in Iowa forwards a...
View ArticleThe Rise of Cobra
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Perspective: This ain’t your daddy’s G.I. Joe. For that matter, this probably ain’t your G.I. Joe. Come to...
View ArticleHunt for Adventure
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } From the towers of Manhattan to the jungles of South America, from the sands of the Sahara to the frozen...
View ArticlePublic Enemies
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } A tale of loyalty and unlikely friendship featuring two of the most famous super-heroes on the planet,...
View ArticleSpeed Racer
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } In a world where drivers of consummate skill and daring steer super-charged racing machines across tableaus...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons 5e Starter Set
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Summer of 2014 saw the release of the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons in a box set designed to...
View ArticleForward the Foundation
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is most well known as the winner of the Hugo Award for “Best All-Time...
View ArticleThe Invention of Lying
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Weren’t expecting this, were you? Based on the trailer, my impression of the movie was that it was going to...
View ArticleCosmic Patrol
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Cosmic Patrol from Catalyst Game Labs appealed to me the instant I saw the book. Such classic iconography...
View ArticleEagle Eyes
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } The concept of Roman Noir is not one that seems immediately natural to me, but this setting makes it quite...
View ArticleFreeport: City of Adventure (Revised)
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Freeport has been Green Ronin’s signature setting of pirate adventure and Cthulhoid madness since the early...
View ArticleAtomic Robo the RPG
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Atomic Robo premiered in 2007 as a six-issue mini-series, quickly gaining a cult following and branching out...
View ArticleBehind the Walls
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Just to be clear…. This is supposed to be a prison game. Your characters are hardened convicts surviving in...
View ArticleCitizens Grok TANSTAAFL
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Robert A. Heinlein consistently tackled social themes through the framework of his speculative fiction in...
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RPG Review: Young Centurions
Visit a world of pulp action-adventure in the 1910s with the Young Centurions RPG from Evil Hat Productions. If you’re new to Fate or to the Spirit of the Century setting, this book belongs on your...
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Welcome to Paradise; Welcome to Hell
Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld series postulates the mass awakening of the entire deceased population of the Earth on a paradise planet where a single, massive river separates two shores bounded by...
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Book Review: Sally Slick and the Steel Syndicate
Sally Slick and the Steel Syndicate visits a 14-year-old Sally Slick in the years before she grows into her role as a Spirit Centurion. It introduces us to Sally’s fellow Centurion Jet Black and a...
View ArticleUpon the Riverworld
In my previous examination of Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld, I spoke much about Farmer and very little about his setting. I’m afraid I find Farmer’s work tedious, but the Riverworld setting...
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Book Review: Sally Slick and the Miniature Menace
Sally Slick and the Miniature Menace returns us to the world of Young Centurions and to the adventures of Sally Slick and Jet Black, first seen in Sally Slick and the Steel Syndicate. This time around...
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