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sBounding Into Comics has an exclusive on FIVE complete pages from Alt-Hero: Q. We were going to post all five pages here by the end of the weekend, but when BIC asked for the exclusive, we could hardly say no. So, go check them out! From Bounding Into Comics‘s article: Arkhaven Comics is currently running an IndieGoGo crowdfunding […]
Arkhaven New Release: RIGHT HO, JEEVES #5
Saturday , 22, September 2018 Comics, Just Released, News Leave a commentArkhaven Comics is pleased to announce GUSSIE AT BAY, the fifth issue in the RIGHT HO, JEEVES series, which tells of the travails of the inimitable Bertie Wooster, who is summoned from the comforts of #3A Berkley Mansions, London to Brinkley Manor by his imperious Aunt Dahlia. Love is in the air and Wodehousian shenanigans […]
New Release Roundup, 22 September 2018: Science Fiction
Saturday , 22, September 2018 Just Released Leave a commentThree best-selling space operas return in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction. Agents of Mars (Starship’s Mage: Red Falcon #3) – Glynn Stewart Captain David Rice and the crew of Red Falcon have spent two years infiltrating the arms smuggling underworld of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars. When the […]
Six days left. The story continues. Back the Alt-Hero: Q campaign here.
Short Reviews – A Can of Vacuum, by L. Ron Hubbard
Friday , 21, September 2018 Uncategorized 4 CommentsL. Ron Hubbard’s A Can of Vacuum appeared in the December 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It can be read here at Archive.org. A Can of Vacuum is a droll Mil-SF short about officer-hazing (which makes Hubbard’s own military service worth briefly noting; here, it’s been noted). A green ensign, Bigby Owen Pettigrew, has […]
“Come then, try my steel and I will send you to hell where you belong. The gods of my people look down upon those that prey on the weak. There is no honor in it. There is no honor in you. I will enjoy killing you.”–Mortu In Mortu and Kyrus in the White City, Schuyler Hernstrom […]
We’ve shown you the creators. We’ve explained the concept. We’ve shown you the artwork. With only a week left, now it’s time to start showing you the story. A new page will be introduced every day. You can rest assured, and you will see, that The Legend Chuck Dixon is living up to his well-deserved […]
The return of the Sellsword is going to be SAVAGE. Thrust into a conspiracy of kings and bandits, he fights for what is right. Taking place years before Brutal and Fierce, the Sellsword is enticed into joining with a secret band of rogues and stealing back the treasures of a kingdom! But can he tell […]
From the transcript of the Arkstream: I’m excited about this. We we have another crowdfunding campaign that’s going on, that’s been very successful, Alt-Hero: Q, some of you are probably already backing that one, but Ember War is significant in a different way. It’s significant because this is the first time that a major science fiction writer […]
The second book in the Brutal Trilogy, James Alderdice returns with to the troubled reign of King Gathelaus with Fierce. The first novel in the trilogy, Brutal, was reviewed here on this very blog last August. This review necessarily contains spoilers for the first novel, so if you’re the type to react volubly at spoilers for […]
Arkhaven Comics is pleased to announce that the Indie-go-go campaign for THE EMBER WAR graphic novel by bestselling science fiction novelist Richard Fox and Jon Del Arroz is now live. The Earth is doomed. Humanity has a chance. In the near future, an alien probe arrives on Earth with a pivotal mission—determine if humanity has what it […]
Frank Miller’s Brain Fart: All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder
Monday , 17, September 2018 Comics 4 CommentsSo, All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder. (And you thought MY titles were long.) This series is awful, to begin with. I just want to get that out of the way. It’s appalling. Abominable. Deeply nasty. But I’ll get to all that in a second. First, and I swear this is not a joke, […]