The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 2 by Eiji Otsuka
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery service is a very interesting manga to describe, in terms of being a horror manga that contains elements of the supernatural, but is ultimately bases its horror out of what people do to each other, then it does with the actions of the restless dead – though those elements are there. Read more
This week I’m continuing with the Hawkmoon reviews with the second book – The Mad God’s Amulet
I’m continuing with the Hawkmoon reviews with the second book – the Mad God’s Amulet.
This week I’m reviewing a novel by Michael Moorcock. Specifically, I’m taking a look at the first novel in the Hawkmoon series – The Jewel in the Skull
This week I’m reviewing a novel by Michael Moorcock. Specifically I’m taking a look at the first novel in the Hawkmoon series – The Jewel in the Skull.
Art from ~Jewel In The Skull~
Published by First Comics
Script by Gerry Conway
Art by Rafael Kayanan
Used for purposes of criticism
On New Years Eve I saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Here’s what I thought of the movie.
(Originally Published on Goodreads)
King of Thorn, Volume 2 by Yuji Iwahara
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This volume is causing the series to risk becoming cluttered, from a plot standpoint. Coming into this volume, the plot had the main driving conflict of “How do these characters, which are almost all infected with a disease that could kill them, survive in this post-apocalyptic world with massive thorny plants that have consumed everything, and freaking dinosaurs?” Read more
This week I’m reviewing another film in the Criterion Collection – the samurai film “Sword of the Beast”.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a kind of slow-paced manga. This volume does a lot of world-building with regards to Terran society and Mu society, as well as our two leads views of their respective societies, Jomy Marcus Shin for the Mu, and Keith Anyan for the Terrans. (Cont. below the Cut) Read more
This week I’m recapping the last issue of Nintendo Fun Club News. From here on, we enter the realm of Nintendo Power. It’s just a shame that Fun Club News goes out with a whimper.
Game Reviewed:
Wizards & Warriors
This week it’s time for another book review, as I continue to make my way through James Blish
This week the Nintendo Power Recaps reach issue #6 of Nintendo Fun Club News.
Games Reviewed (Affiliate Links):
This week I’m reviewing an urban fantasy mystery novel – Ben Aaronovich’s book “Midnight Riot
At long last we get through the first chapter of the game.
This week I’m covering two issues of Nintendo Fun Club News – Issues #4 & #5
Games Reviewed (for the NES):
RC Pro-Am
Ice Hockey
The Goonies II
This time, in Genji: Days of the Blade I start to fight my way through the treasure room complex, which is currently on fire. While trying to retrieve a flammable McGuffin.
This time, in Genji, we have more backtracking in the game, and a party member who rushes headlong into combat and gets caught in a force field.
The Genji: Days of the Blade Let’s Play carries on, and we contend with another freaking ward.
This week I’m taking a look at another Science Fiction novel – John Scalzi’s literary remake of H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy – Fuzzy Nation
Little Fuzzy can be found on Project Gutenberg here.
John Scalzi’s Blog can be found here.
This time I’m actually on schedule for the Let’s Play Videos, with part 3 of the Genji: Days of the Blade let’s play. This time we get to meet another improbably dressed young female warrior, but this one is playable!
The Genji: Days of the Blade
Time to try doing a Let’s Play again, this time with the game Genji: Days of the Blade for the PlayStation 3.
