So, ten years ago to the day, I saw those 'new' Dark Eldar miniatures from Games Workshop, itself some ten years after I got my first Dark Eldar prior to going to university.  Only now, ten years on from that renaissance and twenty years from the initial inspiration, I have finally concluded painting the mass of those naughty piratical aliens along ( Read more... )

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... )

I haven't written in ages.  Not here, I mean.  Well, not just here.  In general.  Whenever do I find the time, I excuse myself with.  There's no time in the morning, and after work I'm in no mood for it.

No more.  Shut up, I tell myself: it's time to put words into form again.  So I've got one of those blank books that I'd been putting off writing ( Read more... )

Games Workshop, just over a year after releasing the latest edition of Necromunda - a year over which they released four supplementary rulebooks - have published a new book that replaces it.  The new book compiles all the rules, and a companion tome alongside it has all the gang rules.

Time to throw out those other five books, huh?  No use for ( Read more... )

No-one reads this anymore, so that's why I haven't written anything here for a while.  Yet there remains a lot of stuff I wanted to write about and have to get out of my head, if only for my own satisfaction.

A while ago I posted here - and subsequently deleted - my going through some old Legion of Super-Heroes comics that I'd managed to get my ( Read more... )

I've read the novel Frankenstein again recently, for the first time in years.  And I've realised that its not very good ( Read more... )

Death's Head was in a comic this week! Guardians of the Galaxy: Dream On by Marc Sumerak and Andrea de Vito (the latter was the artist on the awesome Dungeons and Dragons comic).  http://marvel.com/comics/issue/61146/ ( Read more... )

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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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