“Insert desire, apply will. The rest is just instinct.” So sayeth the Graces, twins Fenrin and Thalia and younger sister Summer, scions of a magical house in today’s modern Britain. Raised to cast spells, make poppets, and understand curses, the three siblings are the latest in a long line who work with nature to accomplish …
It’s that time again! We’re a little later into the season than usual, but we have a couple of special guests in the form of Jennifer Cheek and Tim Lanning of the Drunks & Dragons Podcast. An eclectic mix of shows this quarter, and here are just some of the shows we cover; Anima Yell …
My first introduction to GRRM was via Game of Thrones, which I quickly fell in love with the ability to juggle multiple characters and varying storylines. So when I got the chance to read and review Nightflyers, a collection of science fiction short stories, I was ecstatic. One of the greatest storytellers of a generation …
Our second episode that was selected for review by our lovely patrons! (https://patreon.com/inksandissues). This episode we look into the twisted mind of Warren Ellis and how he seems to hate writing Captain America. Also the mystery of Fing Fang Foom’s purple underwear and lots of explosions. It certainly is a comic book! Follow the show: …
Vince Kenny from Transformation Sequence returns this week to discuss the horror manga Tokyo Ghoul. What further antics does our sad anime boy get up to, and how do the well established horror tropes of consumption and menstruation figure into it all. Find out in the conclusion to our discussion of Tokyo Ghoul! Follow the …
Perhaps you, the humble wizard, are deep within the stacks of the archives, but when it comes to those tomes on the arcane arts you’re having a hard time of it. You’ve been pouring over glyphs, runes, and cryptic dead languages trying to brush up on your school of magic. While you examine those dusty …
Brandon asks – Do you enforce encumbrance? Brandon, the very unglamourous answer is “it depends.” While I’m all for playing most games with the rules as written, I do think that incorporating “house rules” or tweaks to some of the more boring mechanics of certain games make for a better overall experience. In some circumstances, …
This is a book about fear. This is a book about what fear makes. Mostly it makes monsters, and then it makes walls to keep those monsters out, and then–surprise, surprise–it makes more monsters inside those walls. And then the fearful call for blood, because cowardice and ignorance together are a powerful void, and they …
New Coventry. A town located somewhere between over there and around about here. A town full of people, places and stories. Depending on who you talk to New Coventry was built on everything from fertile farming land to an ancient burial ground and was founded by pious pilgrims or lizard-headed demons. Whatever the case, New …
New Coventry. A town located somewhere between over there and around about here. A town full of people, places and stories. Depending on who you talk to New Coventry was built on everything from fertile farming land to an ancient burial ground and was founded by pious pilgrims or lizard-headed demons. Whatever the case, New …