I can’t stop playing Alone, it’s unmercifully fast, beautiful and addictive. The crisp look is matched with a deceptively simple challenge; slide up or down to move your ship, and don’t hit anything. In addition to a sharp appearance it has a stellar soundtrack, but what makes Alone really stand out is just how absurdly fast […]
Chrononauts by Miller and Murphy
Lets not waste time. I could go on about how Chrononauts is essential time travel reading, how with this series Murphy and Miller can put their names next to Wells and Zemeckis, but I thought it might be easier to include this frame of a fighter jet whooshing past some dinosaurs. I think that says […]
So Hip to be Square, Skala from Tenggrenska Studios
With a scalable square hero, size matters. A twist on the traditional runner you have to shrink yourself to fit between obstacles or grow large enough to cross gaps; as the levels progress you’ll have to be faster and nimbler to overcome. Things get really tricky when you have to start using rapid scale changes […]
Tiny Guardians by Kurechii
A good twist for tower defense. You only have one tower to defend as she moves through the route of each level. Your single tower is a summoner who you use to make a party of different heroes to defend you and to kill off the attacking monsters. You start out with some basic archers […]
Why I Won’t Watch the Rouge One: a Star Wars Story trailer
Watching the whole trailer is like knowing the final score of the game before you see it. Yesterday at the comic shop it came up in discussion, yet again, that I don’t watch very many movie trailers for someone that rarely misses a new science fiction or super-hero movie. But that’s exactly why I don’t […]
Click, Click, DOOM! Six-Gun Gorilla by Simon Spurrier and Jeff Stokely
Welcome to the new frontier, they call it “The Blister”. Sometime in the 22nd century, mankind has been fighting a civil war over what’s left of the fertile land on a far off post-apocalyptic planet. Watching the tide of the war shift one way or another is a great source of entertainment back on Earth, but […]
For The Love of Running, Tracksmith
This last season my wife and I have fallen in love with Tracksmith, a runner’s apparel company out of New England (where we live). The weather changes dramatically through the year here, and being a runner is a challenge that demands something like obsession if one is going to run consistently. Tracksmith has embraced that obsession […]
A Glimpse of Yesterday’s Future in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
I’ve reread Snow Crash dozens of times because it’s just that good. I’m sure most cyberpunk fans are already familiar with the title, but any fan who hasn’t read it would be remiss to skip this groundbreaking and genre-defining masterpiece. It’s become something of a grandfather in cyberpunk, one of the first on the scene. Nowadays […]
Burakku Majikku M-66 (Black Magic) by Masamune Shirow
Masamune Shirow’s earliest OVA is an underrated classic. In the wake of Ghost in the Shell it’s easy to pass over Shirow’s earlier works. Appleseed has continued to grow as a series over the years, its latest installment Appleseed Alpha was as recent as 2014. And the Dominion series had Tank Police Team Tank S.W.A.T. 01 […]
East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
Dystopian Science-Fiction Western Comic Series East of West is that rare breed, elusive even among sci-fi westerns which are usually in space, of Weird-West and takes place right here at home. The apocalypses has come, but not all the Horsemen are equally excited to bring about the end. Death it would seem has some unfinished business. Written by Jonathan […]
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