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Book Review – Star Wars: Ahsoka

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Ahsoka… In 2008, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film introduced fans to Ahsoka Tano, a character who polarized viewers nearly as much as Jar Jar Binks did. Unlike the annoying Gungan though, Ahsoka eventually gained a large fanbase. Over the course of the series, gone were the mentions of […]

Book Review – The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games

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Villordsutch reviews The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games by Chris Wilkins… I’m a big fan of nearly everything to do with Sinclair Computers.  It’s something I’m fairly open with and if you wander into my dining room you’ll see safely secured to my wall – in a nice little corner – a timeline of Sir […]

Titan to publish Arrow: Oliver Queen’s Dossier

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Titan Books has announced the upcoming publication of Arrow: Oliver Queen’s Dossier from Nick Aires, which presents a detailed  in-universe exploration of intelligence and information that Oliver Queen has collated on nefarious business dealings and criminal activity in Starling City in the hit CW superhero show. The 160-page book is set for release on October […]

Book Review – Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson

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Villordsutch reviews Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson… For anybody who lived through the home computing boom of the 1980’s if you glimpsed Hewson Consultants on the front of one of your games it meant two things: 1) Here was a fantastic, well made game which was going to keep you engaged […]

Synopsis for Star Wars Catalyst novel offers background details on Rogue One

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Thanks to Stitch Kingdom, we’ve got a look at the cover art and synopsis for James Luceno’s upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel novel Catalyst, which offers up some background on Mads Mikkelsen’s Galen Erso and Ben Mendelsohn’s Director Krennic; check them out here… War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the […]

Book Review – The Curious Affair of The Somnambulist and Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle

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Michelle Herbert reviews The Curious Affair of The Somnambulist and Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle… Set in Victorian England, this is a detective story that hints at the supernatural, but also plays out as a bit of a buddy comedy. Set in a time of manners, who you know and your place in society can […]

Interview – Greg Carpenter on The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer

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Tony Black talks exclusively to Greg Carpenter, writer of The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer (read our review here), about his book and the comic-book industry past, present and future… What served as the inspiration for writing a book about Moore, Gaiman & […]

Book Review – The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer

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Tony Black reviews The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer… Greg Carpenter paints a beguiling look at three of Britain’s visual, literary masters in The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer which may well […]