Comics and Graphic Novels
X-Forcaiku #1
Baby Cable’s plot Got him a messed up Deathlok. Boom Boom slept through it.
Month: December 2018
Card Games
Gloom: Game of the Week
Make your family as sad as possible, and then kill them off. Such is the premise of one of my all time favorite games, Gloom. Ever popular with the morbid or moribund, Gloom is the […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
The Greatest X-Force of Them All
After a brief hiatus, X-Force returns to shelves this week with a brand new X-Force #1. The original line-up (Domino, Cannonball, Boom Boom, Shatterstar, Warpath) gets the band back together to avenge the death of […]
Comic Reviews
The 18 Best Comics of 2018
18) Justice League Dark The best DC in comics, movies, or on TV. These stories of magic and gloom pair beautifully with an incredible cast of characters. Wonder Woman. Zatanna. Swamp Thing. Man-Bat. Detective Chimp! […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Extermin-haiku #5
And so they went back to the time they left behind. Oh, hey, it’s Cyclops.
Board Games
Betrayal Legacy: Game of the Week
Beware the house on the hill, for few who venture there ever truly return. They are forever lost, their time sucked up into the infinite void of playing and replaying the Betrayal series. Vanilla Betrayal, […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
So… What’s Thor Been Up To?
Thor aka God of Thunder aka Point Break aka Sparkles has had a tremendous few years of comics. By my account, the Asgardians have been the top dogs in comics for seven years now. And […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Which Multiple Man Dupe Are You?
This year was a big year for Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man. He returned from an unceremonious death to headline his own miniseries for the first time in a decade. And it was a banger. […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
X-Haiku Red #11
Jean Grey beat Nova with the greatest power she had: her empathy.
Board Games
Trickerion: Game of the Week
Trickerion is the game for those that watch The Prestige and really want to get up in there and rough up Christian Bale. If you saw The Illusionist and thought you could teach Edward Norton […]
Toys
Val’s Toy Chest- DC Gift Ideas
The big news for the week is that we should finally be getting in the brand new series of Mattel’s DC Multiverse action figures by the weekend. To refresh your memory and also give you […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
The Heartbreaking Satire of Mark Russell
This week marks the release of Judge Dredd: Under Seige, the latest bit of societal upheaval from Mark Russell. The current master of comedic satire in sequential art, Russell’s career has been a longstanding testament […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
A Eulogy for X-Men Red
We all fall in love sometimes. Comics fans are passionate beasts, loving deeply these strange and silly things we turn to month after month. Often, we’ll fall out of love for a while. Maybe that […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Merry X-Haiku Holiday Special
X-Mas time is here And Glob Herman broke my heart. Jubes beat up Arcade.
Other Topics
Val’s Toy Chest- Star Wars Gift Ideas
Star Wars has been an important property for many years now, although there has been some slow down after the recent onslaught of a new movie every year. Even so, Star Wars still has a […]
Board Games
Arkham Horror: Game of the Week
There’s no better time for board games than when the wind is howling, the outside world so uninviting that it drives you inside, ’round the table, dice in hand, ready for an adventure. And there […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Comic Picks of the Week 12/5/18
Ordinarily I like to do deep dive articles here at the Planet, but there were just too many stellar titles to write about this New Comic Book Day, so here is your weekly ranking of […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
DIE is Damn Fine Goth Jumaji
Tabletop gaming is having its greatest renaissance since the Satanic Panic of the 80’s and Tom Hanks made that movie that said Dungeons & Dragons was going to make your kids kill people in the […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Uncanny X-Haiku #3
Legion’s possession Made Madrox attack his friends. Mansion got angel’d.