Something a little different today. All Against All isn’t out yet but I was very lucky to get an advanced copy. Details of how to pre-order it are at the bottom of the post. B’Tay is an Operator, part of an alien race. He’s also a scientist and in way over his head. All Against …
You walk as the world ends. Bleak foggy countryside gives way to a forest infested with colossal bipedal nightmares, a series of underground cities and a reality-shattering discovery. There is snow. There is fire. There is death. There is more. You keep walking. It occurred to me as I was writing this that I really …
Zines are an exceptionally pure format and this is proof. Green Ghost follows a precise, focused ghost who looks after plants around your house. They’re a calm, focused presence who looks mostly human and has a compassionate and pragmatic approach to their work. One page shows them smelling a vase of roses and saying ‘Flowers …
I remember the TMNT comics, I played the TMNT RPG (The Cyberduck Systems Model D800, the Alihens and the PreDucktor all featured) but somehow I never saw the movie. This week, I changed that. It was a good choice. You probably know the basis but just in case; four baby turtles thrown into a New …
Paratopic is a game that doesn’t care if you like it, it just cares if you pay attention. Developed by Arbitrary Metric, designed by Jessica Harvey and written by Doc Burford, it’s a nightmare born from the mind of David Cronenberg after he fell asleep playing PS1 horror games. You’re a smuggler, arrested for smuggling …
The La Mariposa books may be the most joyful comics being published today. James Lawrence’s amiable hossette is a powerhouse in the ring and a heroic force everywhere in her life. Mariposa literally wanders the Earth, meets people and has adventures. Jules from Pulp Fiction would be very proud. And, odds are, suplexed in pretty …
The Outfit is Graham Moore’s directorial debut and it does not show at All. Scripted by Moore and Jonathan McClain, The film, all set inside Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance)’s Chicago tailor’s shop is as precise and methodical as Burling. Just as ruthless too. Burling is a polite, gentle man with a sparky assistant and the …
Kama Mielczarek’s zines always have voices that carry. It was an okay day: a simple zine of positive things, was the first work they did that I found and I’m glad I did. It was an okay day is a single page of A4 folded down into a small essay about Mielczarek’s day. It’s the …