Monster of the Week is a tabletop role-playing game that allows you to play as a character like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Hellboy, hunting down monsters and saving innocents. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons and some other RPGs, Monster of the Week can take place in current times, so you can use modern technology like cellphones and…
The Strain Episode 1 – Questions, Predictions, & Snark
The Strain begins with a mystery. A flight attendant on a full flight from Berlin panics, shouts that there’s something in the hold, something that’s trying to get into the plane. He’s right. I haven’t read either the novel or the comics, but I love a good horror story and was really looking forward to…
Not Our First Time at Fight Club
Dark Horse Comics has confirmed that they will be printing a sequel to Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club. The 10 issue series, illustrated by Cameron Stewart of Sin Titulo and the new Batgirl, will be released next May and will focus on the same narrator 10 years later, now married to Marla Singer with a nine…
Pigeons! The First WWAC Sunday Art Gala
It’s Sunday! Lazy, restful, busy or boring; it doesn’t matter, because either way you’re here with us now. In art class! Sundays are art club days, from now on. Wanna join in? We’ve taken a few minutes here and there to each draw a doodle on a single theme. Take a look through, admire our…
Short & Sweet: Princess Ugg, Black Widow, Scratch 9, and more!
Princess Ugg #2 Ted Naifeh Oni Press Princess Ugg #2 finds Ülga facing the biggest trial of her life. She’s faced giants, war, terrible beasties, but what can she do when challenged with – posture lessons? This issue focuses on the loneliness Ülga feels as she struggles with the daily lessons that the other princesses…
Con Diary: Nexus Game Fair
Nexus Game Fair was held in the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This was its first year, but it boasted an impressive array of both role-playing and board games. There were a number of gaming notables, mainly former TSR employees and local game designers who were able to make the trip.
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules now out!
Let’s talk role-playing games. Not the kind with a mouse and raids and guilds (although that’s good too) – but the kind with 20-sided dice and books. Some of you already play. Awesome. The rest of you may have heard of the grandaddy of tabletop RPGs, Dungeons & Dragons. This was my first RPG when…
Nostalgia Nexus: Fire and Luck
Excalibur Series Chris Claremont (W) Alan Davis (A) Marvel So, I started reading Excalibur mainly due to a girl crush on Rachel Summers. She was bad ass, clad in red leather and spikes, with the power to devour worlds. But add in Kitty Pride, her dragon Lockheed, and Nightcrawler? Yeah. I’m there.
Slave Labor Graphics Turns to Crowdfunding
Slave Labor Graphics, known for publishing work like Milk and Cheese, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Nightmares & Fairy Tales, and Lenore, has turned to crowdfunding to keep the business going.
(TW) Marion Zimmer Bradley and Child Abuse
(Trigger warning: child abuse, sexual abuse) On June 10th, Deirdre Saoirse Moen published an email from Moira Greyland, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s daughter. In the email she states that her mother molested her from the age of three until the age of twelve.
Review: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
I’m in love with Miriam Black. She is violent and deadly, full of whiskey and sex and snark. Miriam can see a person’s death when she touches their skin, and the chapters alternate between men dying in front of her and a nervous interviewer probing the depths of Miriam’s talent. The main plot follows Miriam…
Nostalgia Nexus
Rom: Space Knight (early issues) Written by Bill Mantil and drawn by Sal Buscema Oh, Rom. You and your melodramatic rants over your lost humanity, your inability to have children, your desire to get into Brandy’s pants. I would never imagined a comic based on a badly designed toy could capture the emotional range of…