Disney & Gemstone: A Rethinking Phase?

It’s been a couple of months since we’ve seen any new issues from Gemstone Publishing, and news of upcoming issues has been scarce at best, leading many to believe that something unfortunate may be going on behind the scenes.  And while we still await official news of exactly what will happen in the months to [...]

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Francesco Francavilla and Pulp Sundays

Yesterday I was reminded of the incomparable work of Francesco Francavilla, the artist currently behind Dynamic Forces Zorro, the fan-favorite Black Coat & several other projects, and I wanted to encourage any readers that haven’t yet stumbled upon his Pulp Sunday Blog to make it a point to check it out pronto!  Here’s a creative [...]

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The Clone Wars: The Ryloth Saga

As the first season of the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series winds down, we’re being treated to a 3-part epic entitled the “Ryloth Saga,” which will begin Friday, February 27th on the Cartoon Network with “Storm Over Ryloth.” I can’t stress enough how entertaining this series has been, and I’ll have my back end [...]

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Ivan Reis’ Departure From Green Lantern

In a recent interview with Newsarama, artist Ivan Reis revealed that after the “Blackest Night” event in Green Lantern that he’ll be leaving the book.  I’m really sorry to hear that as Ivan Reis has been a huge part of the success of the title, and I’ve loved seeing his work on the book from month [...]

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George R. R. Martin’s ‘A Game of Thrones’

When I started the blog about a year ago I threw up a quick post cataloging what I was reading, with a note that I had begun George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, the first book in the critically acclaimed Song of Ice and Fire series.  It had been ages since I read [...]

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LittleBigPlanet Coming to the Sony PSP + Persona!

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) released a boatload of news today, but of the utmost importance to me was the announcement that Media Molecule is developing LittleBigPlanet for the PSP and that we can expect it in the Fall of ‘09.  The game is an absolute blast on the PS3 and that’s likely where I’ll [...]

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More of Jake Parker’s Missile Mouse

Missile Mouse creator and all around good guy, Jake Parker, recently finished up a hefty 172-pages of inks forMM’s first full-length graphic novel, “The Star Crusher.” And if you hop on over to his site you can see a few samples of those pages.  Even better, if you visit this particular post you can view [...]

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To Redwall

Half-Price Books is getting to be a dangerous place for me.  Seems that everytime I walk in there I have to come out with something and on a recent trip I stumbled upon a good, sturdy, hardcover copy of Brian Jacques Redwall for ~ $6 that I quickly decided needed to come home with me.  [...]

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War of Kings Saga #1 by Michael Hoskin

The War of Kings saga is yet another Abnett & Lanning event that I’m really looking forward to in the months to come (Black Bolt & The Inhumans, Nova, Lilandra & the Shi’Ar, Gladiator, Kree & Co!  Are you kidding me?!) and I wanted to take a moment to thank good friend, and blog regular [...]

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Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS)

After a heck of a wait, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS) finally hit stores earlier this week and with my own copy on its way (the discount was worth the wait) I’ll finally have the chance to play the original FE with all the new bells, whistles, and spit shine.  Between this and Valkyria Chronicles [...]

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