The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in comics on Jul 17th, 2008
Viivi & Wagner, the strip about a girl and a pig will look quite unlike itself for the next few weeks in Hesari.
As Juba Tuomola recovers from a skating injury, the comic will be drawn by various finnish artists.
The tribute kicked off today with Ville Ranta’s take, and quite a different […]
The majority of summer movies are still unreleased, but I began my trail through this season’s “leave brain in the coat rack”-films with Timur Bekmambetov’s Hollywood debut Wanted. I didn’t know this was a comic adaptation in advance, but the thinness of the plot became obvious very soon into the movie.
In fact, […]
Posted in books, comics, food, games, television, travel on Apr 16th, 2008
Kansainvälisen Seikkailijan Opas, the Madventures-guys’ travel book: Short on destination details, long on quality writing.
Tropicana Red Berries: No mango, interesting taste, deep purple colour.
Halo 3: Too many chapters with Flood, will go back for the vehicle scenes.
Blink, off the third season of Doctor Who: Probably the best televised science fiction in […]
Posted in comics on Apr 5th, 2008
The first collection of Fingerpori comics is out.
It’s published by Arktinen Banaani, and very reasonably priced at 14 euros (I didn’t expect a hardcover album at that price).
The contents are not laid out in publication order, but arranged in themes (historical things here, Hitler-strips there and so on). Also, there’s […]
Posted in comics on Feb 18th, 2008
A new Warren Ellis comic is always an event, and when a new one is launched free on the web, the interest is at least doubled.
FreakAngels just kicked off with a six-page starter.
It’s way too early to say anything about the comic itself, apart from it being immediately glued to the […]
Posted in comics on Jan 20th, 2008
The two first episodes of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill were nothing short of great. The plotlines, recycling the popular culture of the turn of the 20th century were packed with imaginative second takes of famous stories, and even more importantly, believable new adventures for characters known by the […]
Showing that there’s no keeping down a combination of ichoric horror and pun-infested humor, Munchkin Cthulhu, the game returns with a second expansion, this time co-created with Francois Launet’s Unspeakable Vault (Of Horror).
Silliness galore expected.
