Comics Are Expensive returns to Occasional Supeheroine this week, looking at the opening volleys from two brand new books and the second volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ superior Noir comic, Criminal. Check it out if you’re into this sort of thing, and (as always) if there are any books you know of that [...]
And back. Sorry about last week – a combination of absolutely no time for anything outside of work and the rather disheartening nature of last week’s intended subject matter conspired against me to result in a lack of column. But now I am returned to you, brimming with wisdom to be shared and a stack [...]
04.08OFP: The Beginnening
So the plan is for Opportunities For Play, the whole game-in-a-week experiment I first talked about here, to start next week. It’s massively bad timing, with with milestones on both games I’m working on due that Monday and a few dozen other things that need as much of my attention as I can give them, [...]
Odd timing finding this one, seeing as it won YoYo Games’ Winter Competition and Spring is slowly creeping into the city, but luckily, Frozzd is the sort of thing you can enjoy no matter what the weather outside is like (last Xmas song reference, promise). Similar to the previously discussed here Flash game Space Hopper [...]
So a funny thing happened on the way to finishing this week’s Comics Are Expensive: I realized I didn’t want to. The idea was to cover the big three of Marvel’s Ultimate line: Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, and The Ultimates, all books I read regularly when they first appeared but haven’t touched in years. I [...]