Mara For as long as I’ve been reading, I’ve always felt myself drawn to speculative fiction. While I don’t necessarily dislike general fiction, there’s just so much possibility inherent in science fiction and fantasy. There are so many themes that can be explored in the sneakiest of ways. Sure, you […]
Artist Profile Nightwish – Part One: The Tarja Years Country of origin: Finland Genres: Symphonic metal, gothic metal, power metal, folk metal, heavy metal, symphonic power metal Years active: 1996-current Current members: Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards, piano, synthesizers), Jukka Nevaleinen (drums, percussion), Emppu Vuorinen (guitars), Marco Hietala (bass, vocals), Troy Donockley […]
Introducing the Meta Scenario Sounds like a pretty kool title, right?! Well it is, so you are right. Recently, I have been playing games that have required something a little more than a normal game. These are sometimes games I have played before and sometimes they are completely new games. […]
The Fuse Those who know me (and anyone who reads these articles) knows that I have a deep abiding love of Ed Brubaker’s writing. In large part, this is because Brubaker takes a genre which I tend to have relatively little interest in (crime/noir) and brings such depth and intensity […]
Gojira and Tesseract On Friday, 14 October 2016, I saw Gojira and Tesseract perform. I am not super familiar with Tesseract, but I do enjoy what I have heard and their performance was very good. Unfortunately, Gojira’s performance is hardwired into my head and that is going to be the […]
Continuing in the vein of parasocial interactions and our investment in fictitious characters, we can see the gradation of involvement in those avatars and how much we identify with them. Previously, I talked about how we tailor our heroes to our own identities and project ourselves onto them. Now, there’s […]
R.A. The Rugged Man and A-F-R-O Back in late September, I decided to see R.A. The Rugged Man and A-F-R-O. A-F-R-O was my main reason for going and I was intrigued about R.A. The Rugged Man because I was largely unfamiliar with his work. I spent a small amount of […]
The Traveling Gamesmen I just recently got back from a business trip in San Francisco. I was a a giant convention called Dreamforce, which has little to no bearing on board gaming at all but I figured it would name drop. Anyway, while I was away, I noticed two thing about […]
Banned Books Since last week was technically Banned Books week, I’m a bit belated in celebrating but I wanted to take some time in Graphic Reviews to talk about some fantastic graphic novels that have been banned for one reason or another. All stupid, as cases of censorship generally are. […]
The Holographic Principle A Look at the new Epica album There were three albums that were released on 30 September 2016, but Epica’s album was the one that stuck out the most to me. The Holographic Principle is not only my favorite Epica album since Design Your Universe, but […]
