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Books

Grading Aimee Bender’s THE COLOR MASTER, Story by Story

You know how some people feel about Neil Gaiman? Or Joss Whedon? Or Alan Moore? That level of evangelical-superchurch-backwoods-speaking-in-tongues fandom? That’s how I feel about Aimee Bender and her short stories.  They’re the weirdest and most wonderful modern fables. Any one could be a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie before both gentlemen jumped their sharks. That said, I was a little nervous about reviewing Bender’s new collection of short stories. I was afraid all my fan-girling would get in the way of my journalistic whatever-you-want-to-call-it. That didn’t happen. This collection was a …

Posted on by Kit Steinkellner
Gaming

Betrayer Review (PC)

Blackpowder Games, composed of a group of veteran developers from Monolith Productions, and who brought you No One Lives and the F.E.A.R. series, delivers a one of a kind horror FPS called Betrayer. The year is 1604, the turn of the 17th century.  You have sailed from England, thinking you would be joining a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia.  Instead however, you find yourself only seeing ghosts and solving mysteries.  What chaos has engulfed the land and drained it of color and life?  What happened to all the settlers and tribes who lived here?  And who is that strange and silent woman in red who aids you from afar? Little by little, you must figure out and…

Posted on by Kimberly Schmierer
Comics

9th Art Winner – Gigantic Beard takes the prize

The inaugural 9th Art Awards at the Edinburgh Book Festival’s Stripped event were announced last night, with Stephen Collins’ excellent ‘The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil‘ beating out considerable competition from the other books on the shortlist: Gigantic Beard follows the life of ordinary Dave, who likes nothing more than a night in sketching the everyday life passing by in boring monotony and predictable order outside his window. He lives in a world of order, on the perfectly shaped island of Here, where everyone looks inwards, always the same, monotony and order leading to a life of boredom and conformity. Until the beard comes along. The evil beard. The book is…

Posted on by Richard Bruton