Category: comics and geek culture
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As a recent AI scandal has highlighted, the tabletop gaming industry’s strength lies in focusing on human creativity, not churning out more slop
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Science Fiction critic Damian Walter has recently published a video essay about Dredd — primarily the 2012 film but also the comic and I guess I have a couple of things to say about it. Firstly, I think his comments about the film are all fair enough. I love the 2012 film; I recently rewatched…
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If Wizards of the Coast get their way scrapping the Open Game license, it will be a disaster for creatives in the roleplaying industry – but it will also hurt them.
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Dredd to control request back-up… We’ve got a nest of Sino-Cit Judges right here in Mega-City! Judge Dredd Date: 25 September 1993 Script: Mark Millar; Artist: Paul Marshall; Letters: Tom Frame Summary Judge Dredd finds himself under attack; first by Sino-Cit Judges, then Sov Judges and then finally zombie judges. It turns out that he is part…
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Music is only cool when it’s old. Marty Zpok Date: 29 May 1993 Script: Garth Ennis; Artist: Dermot Power; Letters: Annie Parkhouse Plot Summary Marty Zpok, a serial killer with a grudge against popular music is currently serving 60 years in an Iso-Cube for a previous massacre, where he is regularly beaten up by his fellow inmates.…
