Shining 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...
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