Kel McDonald draws and writes the Sorcery 101 webcomic, of which I am a huge fan. She has several other projects going on, but this time I want to talk about Fame and Misfortune. Fame and Misfortune takes place in the same world as her Sorcery 101 webcomic, but focuses on completely different characters. Rebecca… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #252 – Fame and Misfortune by Kel McDonald
Supernatural Noir is a short story collection, edited by Ellen Datlow (one of the best SF/F collection editors ever in my opinion) and published by Dark Horse Comics. The stories all concern supernatural elements, in a very noir style. Many of them emulate the literature of the Noir period (1930s) embodied in the works… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #247 – Review: Supernatural Noir
I will be completely honest, I had had absolutely no interest in seeing Cloud Atlas until my beloved Karrin took me to see it. Part of that is, since we don’t do TV on TV, we don’t see ads, ever. We also don’t get the newspaper. What little I had seen about it concerned the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #246 – Review: Cloud Atlas
How does The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey compare to The Lord of the Rings trilogy? It’s “a lesser son of greater sires,” a disappointment based on the lofty expectations set by its predecessors. Sixty years prior to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) visits hobbit… Read More Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Ashes of Honor is the sixth book in the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. As we all know I am an unabashed Seanan McGuire fangirl. She’s one of the few authors I actually DO try to by the first week the books are in print, in a brick and mortar store to help influence… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #238 – Review: Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire
I would like to begin this review by stating that I am not sure whether I want to hug Mr. Hodder or punch him. Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, the third book in the Burton & Swinburne series (the reassurance on twitter that #4 is coming along, currently has me leaning toward hugging)… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #237 – Review: Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
So I mentioned in the last post, that we played Miskatonic School for Girls (which can be purchased at Amazon) created by Fun to 11 Games a little over a week ago. It’s a cute game, cashing in on the popularity of Lovecraft themed anything. The premise is that each player has a “House” at… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #235 – Review: Miskatonic School for Girls
Ok, I’m not a huge steampunk fan. I have, in fact, been heard to opine that steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown. But honestly, I’m pretty content to live and let live, and I do enjoy well crafted costumes, regardless of subject matter. So, I have no particular beef with steampunk. I don’t… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #231 – Review: Mark Hodder’s Burton and Swinburne Books!
I have been putting off watching the BBC’s Sherlock for months, because I am a Sherlock Holmes purist. While Jeremy Brett is rather good, Basil Rathbone will always be my Sherlock Holmes. And after the SCREAMING disappointment that was the Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law Sherlock Holmes movie, I was not ready to have… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #228 – The BBC’s Sherlock Holmes
If you thought filmmaker Christopher Nolan couldn’t best The Dark Knight, you were wrong. Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is retired as Batman and lives as a recluse. When a new reign of terror is brought to Gotham City by the relentless Bane (Tom Hardy), Wayne must… Read More Review: The Dark Knight Rises
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