April Fools Round-Up: The Best of the Best
Unlike pretty much every other celebration in the western calendar, I actually find I enjoy April Fools Day more and more each year.
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Laura Maier
At the time of character creation, Laura Maier made the mistake of putting all her points in charm. While this was probably an unwise decision, it's served her well so far. Her power animal is the platypus.
Save Our Cartoons!
As fans of the DCAU will no doubt know (and be appropriately outraged by) Cartoon Network has cancelled the two most popular shows in its DC Nation segment…
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DC: The Nth Wave
So DC has cancelled a few series, and launched an equal number of new series in their fourth (I think, could be fifth, I lose track) wave of the New 52.
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Geek Confessions
I feel, given the title, that I should defend myself. I’m a practising geek.
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Where are the Female Avengers?
OMG they’re making a Guardians of the Galaxy movie! Isn’t that great? No.
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Review: The Star Child Trilogy
I always have the same reaction whenever I hear that a novel has been self-published.
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(Another) Death in the Family
So, due to a shortage of staff at my day job and money in my bank account, I’ve just spent a knackering twelve days solid working in the hell that is retail.
BlogBooks & ComicsLaura Maier
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Spotlight: Sword of Sorcery
I was thinking to myself the other day about new and exciting things I could write about, and I decided to do a spotlight series, where I’ll talk about a…
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Grab the Sick Bags, It's A DC Valentine's Day Special !
Let’s get one thing completely straight here: there is nothing on this Earth I find more thoroughly worthless than Valentine’s Day, with the possible…
BlogBooks & ComicsLaura Maier
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The GLAAD Media Awards: Comics Nominations
The GLAAD Media Awards have been going on for 24 years, and honour comics, TV shows, films, musicals, plays, books, short stories, basically every aspect of…
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XX: The Mystery Revealed!
The cover for issue #1 of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel’s X-Men has been released, after an agonising week in which the internet tried to decipher the meaning…
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XX - Cracking the Code
The future of Marvel, according to this image that’s been passed around the geekier parts of the internet like a copy of 50 Shades of Grey in a convent, is XX.
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