I didn’t grow up playing D&D. I’d love to be able to say I did, but I’m not that geekfabulous. BUT. I did grow up watching my only-ten-years-older-than-me uncle play D&D. And he was cool before geek was cool. For real. I’d even credit him with helping pave the way for the rest of us. […]
Over the course of the RED RISING trilogy, we learned of a Gold who didn’t meet the exacting standards of his peers. He wasn’t as tall, as bright, as shiny, as his gilded brethren, but rather than having the decency to die in the passage, he lived to become a peerless scarred. And turned their […]
So here’s the deal: I binge read the first six volumes of SAGA, and it was gutting. Then like the long term SAGA fans, I had to endure the eight month wait for the next volume, which was also gutting. The point being, I’ve never had a SAGA reading experience that didn’t involve an intense […]
If you haven’t grown up reading graphic novels, and you don’t have some inherent knowledge of ALL THE THINGS, you slowly but surely develop a list of series you absolutely must read. At the top of that list, just under Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN and Frank Miller’s BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, is Neil Gaiman’s THE […]