When a double album seems too short, you’ve got something. The first true Guided By Voices live album is an essential purchase for fans, and a good starting point for the curious. There is a point in most old-growth artists careers when the release of new records slows to a trickle or stops. The new records either fade from …
The Trogotronic 679 Gran Fury: The Past Shot Like a Space Monkey into the Future
http://www.trogotronic.com A handy discussion for the perplexed. An intriguing red box. Knobs. Switches. Buttons. Inputs. A solitary vacuum tube protrudes. The eye is drawn, this is a visually intriguing unit. Trogotronic should be given a great deal of credit for making their product eye-catching, and for producing hype interesting enough to make you curious about their products. There does seem …
Hunting Grounds: Dracula’s America expands–plus minis!!
This is a review of the first expansion for Dracula’s America and the accompanying line of minis. Read the review of Dracula’s America first for best results! “He don’t look like no priest to me.” The gunfighter smiled, revealing the fangs he’d had capped in gold. His posse, near-mindless thralls that had been the townfolk of Redemption, hissed and awaited …
Welcome to the Abandoned Land: The Compleat Arduin and the legacy of Dave Hargrave
The jump to Arduin took it out of me. I arrived in an alley of the city of Talismonde shaking from the effort. Arduin is one of the most distant of the planes of imagination, and there is no easy road to take there. Even the talismans of passage–never exactly common–have become coveted, prized, nigh-impossible to come by. Fog …
The Refuge: Zombie Fun for the Whole Family
Classic board game play with a focus on simplicity. The Zombie genre is perhaps the most improbably popular pop culture phenomenon of my lifetime. If someone had suggested back in the eighties when I was running a zombie campaign using the rules for Chill that the Romero films would spawn scores of imitators in film, television, and comics, I would have …
Midnight Legion Box Set! A Classic Concept Remixed….
Choose your own adventure in the classic, solitaire fashion! Atari. Cassettes. VHS. Safety Dance. Basic Set. By Balloon to the Sahara. Warlock of Firetop Mountain. Mountain of Mirrors. If you are a Generation X-er you likely recognize all of these references. A singular thrill particular to that time were the slim paperbacks that housed a roleplaying game experience within. The …
The Slam Bang Chronicles of Buckshot Chapter 2: The Ozark Flyer
Hayfoot! Stawfoot! Where you be a-marchin’? I’m marching off to General Lee! Hayfoot! Strawfoot! What you marchin’ for now? I’m marching for the glory of Old Dixie! For the Georgia pine and the Bama sunshine and the cause of Liberty! Hayfoot! Strawfoot! When you comin’ home boy? Nobody knows! Won’t you pray for me? Buck sang the …
Take This Brother, May It Serve You Well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8zaBS4Bjg Press play. Don’t ask any questions. Wait a few moments. Come back to these words. So the story goes, a man is drawn into an alternate dimension, a parallel Earth where The Beatles never broke up. He is told in no uncertain terms that he can bring nothing back to our world with him. So what does …
More Than Half A Man: Westfalia’s Halfmen Army
More Than Half A Man: Westfalia’s Halfmen Army Written by Kevin Birge Oh, sure. Halflings (we can call em’ that here) look harmless. Little hairy-footed, gluttonous drunken blighters. More likely to pick your pocket or trip over your boots than to put up a fight. Peaceful, smiling, and friendly, if a bit standoffish around bigger folk. So the surprise is …
Q-Ball: A new series from two-time Eisner winner Michael Baron
Michael Baron is a not a name that should require a lot of introduction. And in the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I’ve been a fan of the guy since he served up his classic runs on The Punisher for Marvel and The Flash at DC. Those books would lead me into the sci-fi superhero classic, …