Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsIt is impossible to overstate how important this series was to me during the ’80s. If you want to understand teenage me, Star Trek, Robotech, Elfquest, and role playing games are essential knowledge. I recently picked up the Dark Horse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fourth Gold Brick starts right in the middle of the action, with part two of Brianna and an attempt on the leprechauns’ gold. From there, we quickly go back to the big story line, as Gina gets invited to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Gold Digger color series starts out big. Three multi-issue stories flow directly into each other before there’s any sort of break. In the middle of this, Brianna, Julia, and company finally return from Jade after being missing for several[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a straight reprint of the second half of the Gold Digger B/W series, so its another ~600-page volume reprinting issues 26-50. Unfortunately, it does suffer from there being two cross-overs and one spin-off during this period that aren’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Gold Bricks started as a project to get the original 50-issue black-and-white Gold Digger series into a convenient, but impressive format, with 25 issues per volume. They’ve continued since then with 25-issue collections of the color series. On one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The main problem with the early parts of the Gold Digger series, is that it can be a little scattered. The original story appeared in Mangazine, and then there is a four-issue mini-series, and then the long-running B&W series, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge will really be able to empathize, I’m sure.
For those of us who read comics–of whatever type–Tokyopop has been a major force in the industry for about 15 years. They took a slowly maturing market, and showed how it could be turned into a major runaway success. They’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a busy weekend. There’s still things that need doing that didn’t get done. Saturday was gaming. The usual crowd, Patch and Mark, showed up for SFB, and Paul showed up to watch after expressing interest in playing. We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thought I’d post this since I think I’m the only one on my friend’s list that watches Phil Foglio’s LJ. http://philfoglio.livejournal.com/5139.html Extremely short version: Kaja Foglio is in the hospital. Slightly longer version, she’s going through a bout with Chrohn’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…