Time for another lomg-winded review!

Ephrael Stern - the Heretic Saint, by David Annandale is follow-up to a two-decades old comicbook story about a Sister of Battle that has struck me as intensely disappointing.

It's not JUST due to the wild deviations from the previous stories' themes and plots, and in this case it would not really be a fair ( Read more... )

Volo's Guide to Monsters is a Dungeons & Dragons book that is intended to give a lot more detail to the more iconic monsters of the setting.  Well, the Forgotten Realms setting, at least ( Read more... )

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So, there was some good stuff this week, like a new issue of Hawkeye and Wonder Woman fighting a bear, it was all overshadowed by the terrible-ness of the final issue of FFNow, I'm going to try hard not to sound like a Doctor Doom apologist, but generally something publicised as 'the smackdown of the century' should actually feature a fight, yes? ( Read more... )