Adventure Time – The Original Cartoon Title Cards is a new volume of quirky, brilliant and bizarre title cards. Not sure what a title card is? Title cards typically come after the opening sequence but before the first bit of the show. It’s a chance for the TV program to reveal the episode’s title. In […]
Little Red: A review of Elemental Masters – Blood Red
I was introduced to Blood Red by being told it was a story of a young girl tutored in the way of Earth Magic, a mage who lost her mentor to a brutal murder by werewolf and who grew to fear something sinister was responsible for the string of killings in the remote countryside of […]
A gallery of space art from Fred Gambino
Last week I gave the cyborg thumbs up to the Art of Fred Gambino in a full length review. This is an artist who’s worked with likes of WizKids, LEGO, National Geographic and even Der Speigel. The review included a video tour of the book to showcase Gambino’s fine style and work. Geek Native video […]
Cyberpunkish: A review of Koko Takes a Holiday
I think “cyberpunk” is a suitable word for Kieran Shea’s “Koko Takes a Holiday”. It’s not a perfect fit. It’s hard to put tropical islands and furries into that particular genre but they’re there along with the dystopian future, body modification, gangs and corporate culture in this holiday. I struggled with the start of Koko […]
Dark Shepherd: A review of The Art of Fred Gambino
It’s been about 15 years since Fred Gambino’s last book, Ground Zero, and that alone tells you how established Gambino is in the world of concept art. Most recently Fred Gambino has been working with game and film studios. Gamers will certainly recognise some of the themes here. The companies Fred Gambino’s worked for are […]
Hacker culture: A review of The Art of Watch_Dogs
Ubisoft’s Watch_Dogs is proving to be very popular. Aiden Pearce is a vigilante (or criminal) with a talent set that speaks to geeks. There’s no doubt that Ubisoft Montreal have created an engaging and clever game; mixing hacking with a gorgeous open world. It is also true that part of Watch_Dog’s appeal is that it […]
Expert advice: How to manage magic and mystery without annoying your players
Ari Marmell, aka Mouseferatu, is a novelist that many gamers know well. He’s written novels for the likes of Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf as well as RPG material supporting D&D 4E for Expeditious Retreat Press, Pathfinder for Adamant Entertainment and plenty of World of Darkness game material for White Wolf. The Rodent […]
Steampunk science and elemental magic: A Silver Mirrors review
Silver Mirrors is the sequel to A.A. Aguirre’s Bronze Gods. The Apparatus Infernum series blends some steampunk concepts and imagery with fairy concepts and imagery. As a result you have trains powered by elementals that criss-cross a busy city on an island now sealed off by magic. In the first book our two detectives (a […]
Dinosaurs! A review of the Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi
Csotonyi won the Lazendorf PaleoArt prize for his illustrations in 2010 and 2012. He’s both an artist and a scientist. He has a PhD in Microbiology. There’s a lot of reasons to be jealous of his talent but the summary is this – he’s very good. If you’ve Titan Books’ Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest […]
A video tour of Godzilla: The Art of Destruction
The hardback Godzilla – The Art of Destruction from Titan Books is a 168-paged geeky compliment to the newly released Godzilla film. The news today is that a sequel is on the way. Godzilla did well at the box office and this Toho fan gives the movie two thumbs up. Sure, there’s mixed reviews about […]
