https://youtu.be/LzvqI1MBMo8 Below you'll find the text-based review: The flagship title of the X-Men has dropped any pithy adjective. No more "Uncanny" for our mutant protagonists as they move away from protecting a world that fears them. That's a decidedly secondary objective now; with Jonathan Hickman's relaunch of the series, everything's changed. This first volume of... Continue Reading →
The first volume of Benjamin Percy's Wolverine has me more excited about the violent midget ninja than any X-Book has for close to a decade. Not Death of Wolverine, not Hunt of Wolverine or Return of Wolverine or Prom of Wolverine 2: Stabby Boogaloo. But enough jokes; at the heart of this first volume is... Continue Reading →
Hullo, everyone! It has been a while, hasn't it? Apologies for that, I have been busy with work and my master's in literature. The blog has had to take a backseat these past couple of months but after a lovely two-week break, I feel in just the right mood to create a MASTERPLAN for The... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Friendships, relationships, living together--what do all these have in common? They tend to get messy, especially when you're just turning twenty. Those are the lessons our heroines are met with, come Volume 08 of Giant Days. I first read it in 2021 and promptly forgot to review it; revisiting the series again... Continue Reading →
James Tynion IV is one of those comic book writers I've wanted to dig into for some time now, especially with the increasing number of accolades his BOOM! Studios series, Something Is Killing the Children, has received over the last two years. It's selling like hot cakes, it keeps cropping up in conversations and on... Continue Reading →
I was thinking about what blog posts to write this week and one question wouldn't leave me alone: Why do I like dark fantasy so much? There's no one single answer to this but the title of this post is one possible response. Dark fantasy, good dark fantasy, with its surfeit of tragedy, brings catharsis... Continue Reading →
Hullo, everyone, welcome, welcome to a slow, chill Monday post. It's nice and short and groovy, and it's about an Alix E. Harrow short story I listened to yesterday on Audible. It's part of Audible Plus's catalogue, and a breeze in the air at some forty-four minutes of listening time. Like everything else Harrow has... Continue Reading →
|| Next I've written about the first volume of DIE (the comic book) here. After five years of D&D, experimenting with Kieron Gillen’s DIE RPG ruleset this past summer was a revelation. Dungeons and Dragons is largely reactive, in the sense that the Dungeon Master(DM) offers a playground, more or less directed, within which the... Continue Reading →
Hi, everyone! In this week's book video, I'm looking at the third installment of Martha Wells's Murderbot Diaries, Rogue Protocol! https://youtu.be/OjHraoiVvd8 As always, I'd appreciate it if you like the video, subscribe to my channel and let me know what you think in the comments!
The philosophy of humour, it turns out, is a novel and deeply energised field of philosophical thought. Steven Gimbel's erudite and--yes, funny--account of this area was a joy to read and listen to; from his extensive examination of the six leading theories of humour to a number of ethical questions very much relevant to our... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 