From The Vault: A Board Game Review from 2005 – Nexus Ops
To this day, Nexus Ops remains one of my favourite board games ever. Though reliant on the luck of dice rolls and, to a lesser extent, card draws, it’s a […]
From the Vault: An Interview with Game Designer Charlie Catino
In a previous life, I wrote for a now defunct retail website, Infinity Games (aka IGUK). Their site and my content is sadly long gone and no longer accessible, but […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #299
The final GI Joe IDW story arc continues to disappoint, with a messy story involving clones, resurrections, uninteresting heel and face turns and a supposedly epic scale that feels anything […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #298
The final GI Joe IDW story arc continues, with the silly shenanigans involving a resurrected clone of Genghis Khan and a fake casino resort on Cobra Island developing even further. […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #297
It’s the end of an era, as IDW’s amazing GI Joe run comes to a close. Despite having legendary GI Joe writer Larry Hama scripting this final story arc, it […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #4
The four issue homage to the campy 80s GI Joe cartoon concludes here, with the Genie having granted Cobra Commander’s final wish to end the conflict – but if course, […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: 40th Anniversary Special (2022)
It’s 1984. The ‘real’ GI Joe: A Real American Hero’s 21st issue script has gone missing, leaving Marvel with a strict time limit to get a replacement issue ready for […]
Board Game Review: GI Joe: Deck-Building Game
I’m a big fan of classic GI Joe, and have covered a few of the recent GI Joe comics right here on the blog. So when I saw that Renegade […]
Comic Book Review: Classic GI Joe Vol. 1
Having had the GI Joe license since 2008 – and creating their own, successful continuity with the characters – IDW began reprinting the 80s Marvel issues that were largely written […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #1
The 80s was a real Golden Age for a specific type of Saturday morning cartoon. If you’re my age (or thereabouts), you’ll be very familiar with the genre of cartoon […]
First Impressions: Nerf Legends
The FPS genre is massive, but in general it tends to skew towards an older audience – after all, going around shooting stuff in a violent manner tends to be […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers: Halloween Special
I might be a bit late to the party with this one – considering that Halloween was a few weeks ago and everyone seems to have moved on from spooky […]
Comic Book Review: My Little Pony/Transformers II #4
The second of IDW/Hasbro’s unlikely crossovers – featuring two of their biggest 80s toy lines, and which I’ve now reviewed in their entirety – comes to an end in this […]
Comic Book Review: My Little Pony/Transformers II #3
The mismatched Hasbro franchise crossover sequel continues, with the evil Lord Sombra having declared himself ruler of Cybertron. The two stories we have here make passing reference to this, but […]
Comic Book Review: My Little Pony/Transformers II #2
You know me, right? I love a crossover. And Transformers. Put both of those things together, regardless of the characters teaming up with the Cybertronic Warriors, and it’s pretty much […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #4
The nostalgically styled mini-series, Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies, reaches an abrupt and anti-climactic end with issue #4 (actually the fifth issue of the series, seeing as the opening chapter […]
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