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JOAN: Help Steven Yu Unleash Infinite Violent Holy Retribution This Year For His New Graphic Novel
A quick pivot here as we take a gander at some graphic novel assets with a new campaign by author Steven Yu for Joan. Yu doled out a taste for fans several years ago with a small digital preview, and now he’s following up with the completion of his pulpy, action-packed four part epic, with efforts to make Joan a reality now underway at Indiegogo. When the growing authoritarian might of her nemesis, the self-righteous English monarch, King Henry and his magic-wielding dark lords, The Burgundians, spread like wildfire across the medieval hellscape, God resurrects Joan of Arc to stop them. Enchanted with immortality and blessed with infinite ammo, Joan will stop at nothing until these villains are vanquished and peace is restored across France. JOAN is a 4-part graphic novel series set in an alternative 1430’s medieval France. It is a hodgepodge of genres, put together in one unique […]
C2E2 2022: FCSyndicate Chats with Kayden Phoenix, Creator of A LA BRAVA
I was in geek heaven this past weekend as I got to attend yet another wonderful Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. To help keep my fellow nerds updated, I will be posting a few articles about C2E2 covering the event in general and some of the specific fun areas and activities. I picked up some comics, board games, and card games, too, so look for my reviews of those in the coming weeks. One of the top spots to be at C2E2 is Artist Alley which is where my first article will take place. Referred to as “the beating heart of C2E2,” Artist Alley is the spot where the artists and creators are gathered. It is a good mix of local talent and big names in the industry of comics and graphic literature. You can chat with the artists, pick up some […]
BUDGET BIOMORPHS: New Book In The Works Exploring The Live Action ‘Guyver’ Movies Of The 1990s
A new book is on the way detailing the endeavors of the 1991 and 1994 cult live-action adaptations, The Guyver and Guyver: Dark Hero. The book, titled “Budget Biomorphs: The Making Of The Guyver Films”, which will cover cast and crew stories, never-before-seen behind the scenes photos from crew who worked on both films, storyboards, concept art and more, is on track to publish by BearManor Media for a late 2022/early 2023 release date. The book has been in the works for sometime now from author Dom O’Brien, who first took note of the films at the age of eight when his father was friends with a guy who ran a local video store in North London. Having initially discovered Guyver: Dark Hero and due to its age certification, O’Brien was eventually able to watch the film a few years later and ultimately discovered the films’ animated serial origins, and […]
2021 Reading Challenge: An Overview of my Top Reads
I spent a lot of last year immersed in books. According to Goodreads, I read 91 books. Twenty of those books were for the 2021 Reading Challenge my friend and I decided to participate in since we had so much fun doing a reading challenge the previous year. For the 2021 Reading Challenge, not only did we have to read books that fit the listed categories, but we also added the extra task of looking for authors were not white, straight males. This really added to the diversity of topics and themes of the books that we read. I won’t go over all twenty here in this article, but I will tell you some of our favorite reads. I’ve been in a High Fidelity mood lately and making a lot of Top 5 Lists, so in no particular order, here are my Top 5 Reads from My 2021 Reading Challenge: […]
Your Next Reads: Five True Crime Books for Your TBR Pile
For those of you wondering, yes, my True Crime book club is still active! I’ve been so engrossed in reading (true crime, items for my 2021 Reading Challenge, for another book club I’m in, and other books as I find them), that I have not slowed down enough to actually write about what I’ve been reading! So, to help catch you up on what has been going on in my True Crime reading, I am going to summarize our last five reads and our reactions: • November’s read: The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana by Julie Young Back in November of 1978 in Speedway, Indiana, four teenage workers at a local Burger Chef restaurant were murdered. To this day, the crime has not been solved. In this quick read, Young looks at the crime, investigation, and the aftermath. This book was quite fitting for my group because of two reasons: […]
Your Next Read: A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
I was introduced to the Japanese language and culture when I was in third grade. Our teacher arranged for a Japanese woman to come in and teach us for one hour a week, and we began learning nihongo. I can still remember how to sing “Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes” in Japanese. I remember being introduced to items like kimonos and a tea ceremony. That brief time of discovery eventually led me to anime and manga, which led me to re-start learning Japanese my freshman year in college. Unfortunately, although these are all still an interest of mine, I just have not put the time into them like I used to. That is changing. I am slowly making my way back to my love of all things Japanese thanks to a recent, and now favorite, read: “A Tale for the Time Being“ written by Ruth Ozeki. Told in alternating perspectives, […]
2020 TBR READING CHALLENGE: A Year’s Footnotes From A Book Dragon
True story: when I used to travel with my mom, she would often lecture me about my packing because I had to take at least four books with me, no matter the length of the trip: the book I was currently reading, a book for the trip there, the trip back, and what if those books were not enough? No, I am not just a bookworm; I am a book dragon. I devour stories. I read more than one book at a time. I read. A lot. So when I came across the “2020 TBR Reading Challenge” I had to give it a go. I posted the challenge on my Facebook page and tagged a few of my friends who are also readers. Challenges can be more fun when you are doing them with others, right? In this case, it was super true. Out of everyone tagged and everyone supposedly […]
ONE TOUGH BASTARD: Adam Howe’s Newest Book Looks To Be The Biggest Throw Back Action Movie Blockbuster You’ll Ever Read This Spring
Author Adam G. Howe wants to woo you well into the new year with his latest action-packed story, One Tough Bastard. Making the rounds nowadays, of course, is the cover which is clearly meant to signal fan service for lovers of 80s and 90s action cinema as the tagline itself so suggests: “One’s a big dumb animal The other’s a chimpanzee Shit just got real” Wrapped in a world all its own, it centers on an entirely fictional cast with its own filmography, “featuring” Shane Moxie, “…a washed-up 80s action star who refuses to believe his best days are behind him” and Duke, “…a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee and arguably the greatest animal actor of his generation”. Still with me? If so, here’s a meaty synopsis that ought to seal the deal… Reunited for an anniversary movie screening, when Moxie and Duke are targeted by assassins, the feuding co-stars reluctantly join forces […]
Your Next Read: WHO KILLED MY DAUGHTER?
Family. Murder. Messages from beyond. An unsatisfying police investigation. Psychics. Intrigued?… Read on. At last month’s meeting, my true crime book club agreed that our next read would be Lois Duncan’s Who Killed My Daughter? I had come across it on Amazon on sale one day and passed the information along to my group. I thought it would be just another true crime read. I was wrong. Who Killed My Daughter? is not just about a crime and its investigation, but instead we see the family’s reaction and coping to the loss of Kaitlyn and Duncan’s own search for information when the police just weren’t doing enough. There is grief, anger, paranormal, and, maddeningly, not enough answers. I did not expect the novel to have as many interactions with psychics as it did. The fact that not just the mother, but the siblings, could still feel Kaitlyn around and were […]
Your Next Read: GHETTOSIDE
If you’ve been reading my articles on this site, you know that I am a huge horror fan. By extension, I am also a fan of true crime. There are times when being borderline-obsessed with these genres can feel isolating. Not everyone understands the gleam in my eye when I speak of Jigsaw’s engineering brilliance (from the Saw franchise, for those who don’t know), people who are disgusted by gore do not understand how I can spend time watching anything directed by Rob Zombie, and people will slowly step away if I start dropping names like Joseph James DeAngelo, Edmund Kemper, or Jeffrey Dahmer in everyday conversation. So what’s a gal to do? Why not start a book club? Surely there are others out there who would want to read and discuss true crime, right? So I posted on social media, found a few in my circle who were interested, […]
JOAN: Steven Yu’s Digital Action Adventure Comic Answers Your Prayers This Week
Even after fifteen years it still feels like just yesterday actor and stunt performer Steven Yu was doing parking lot and dojo practice fight sequences with his fellas over at The Stunt People. To say the least, he still trains, but he’s gone much more in the direction of comic book artistry for as long as I’ve been following him a little closer through social media for about seven years. 2016 at one point saw Yu promoting one particular genre-hybridized comic called Neo Eras. He’s stayed afloat since and he’s out now with a brand new experimental comic thriller called Joan, a project which, in a more ideal world where fresh ideas aren’t unencumbered by industry politics and the personal preferences of corporate tastemakers, would probably bloom much faster and more prominently to the appeal of consumers and geeks alike. History tells us that Joan of Arc was burned alive […]
Your Next Read: THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
When I am not busy watching horror movies to review or writing, I like to read. A lot. This year, a friend and I have found a reading challenge we have decided to do together. One item on the list is to read a “novel that will get a movie adaptation in 2020.” I will spare you the details on how two bookworms wheedled down two needlessly long lists of books that we could read together; all you need to know is that we decided on The Woman in the Window by A.J. Flynn. This book sucked us both in immediately so that we didn’t even discuss it until we were both finished. In the previous books we’ve read together, we would send each other messages about the chunk we had just read or random comments about characters irritating us. Not with this book. We just opened our copies and […]
Your Next Read: TWENTY
If you could pick the time to leave this life, would you? If you said yes, and you had twenty days left to live, how would you spend your time? I was sent the book Twenty, written by Debra Landwehr Engle, in exchange for an honest review. I took my time before actually reading it. I posted the obligatory, “I got book mail” photo on my social media, but I kept finding other things to read. I’ve had enough loss in my life and like to use books as an escape from reality rather than another way to view reality. But Twenty isn’t just about dying. It’s about living. In Twenty, the reader meets Meg who, at the age of 55, has already lost her mother and daughter and is divorced. Years ago, while caring for her mother, a doctor gave her a bottle of pills that promised a “quick, […]
Your A-To-Z Guide To Zombies
The month of October is synonymous with Halloween which is synonymous with hot cider, corn mazes, scary movies, and murder. You know, normal fall stuff. Often featured in these scary tales are the creatures known as zombies. But they’re not all the same. Don’t believe me? Keep reading. Let me present to you, your A to Z guide to zombies: Alice in Zombieland One of my favorite things to try is retellings, especially retellings of Alice in Wonderland. This series, White Rabbit Chronicles, is written by Gina Showalter and the first book is called Alice in Zombieland. This version shows Alice as she tries to avenge her family and becomes a zombie slayer. Badass Zombie Killers This is a great card game for two to six players. The game sounds simple enough: you put together a badass weapon to fight off the zombies. And I’m not talking about a chainsaw: […]
INVISIBLE MONSTERS To Become A Series
You might know the name Chuck Palahniuk as the author of the books Fight Club and Choke were based on. But now one of his novels is being adapted for TV. Invisible Monsters, published in 1999, has been optioned by Fabrik Entertainment. Jennifer Yale will be adapting the novel. Yale has written for Outlander, Legion, and Dexter. The executive producers will be Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate, the CEO and President of Fabrik respectively. In a statement, Bastin and Aouate said, “We are delighted to bring to life a book that has moved readers and built a devoted global following over the past two decades. This thrilling novel offers a rare combination of rich character work and shocking revelations that only Palahniuk can deliver, and in Jennifer Yale’s talented hands we are confident this will be an engaging, cinematic experience that will be sure to grab attention and make headlines.” […]
BOOKS NOW ON SALE: ‘Shirtless In Hollywood’, ‘From The Streets Of Brooklyn’ And ‘Kung Fu Bodyguard’
I found myself piled-on a bit in the last few weeks, so I’m passing on posting individually on the news below regaridng books now out and forthcoming. Nevertheless, we do have librophiles in our readership and so it’ll be worth elucidating what’s in store in case anyone here hasn’t caught on yet. Tap to enlarge the images below and read for details and links to purchase. Special thanks to John Fallon, David J. Moore and Ramona Lee Soo-Jun for reaching out.
METRO 2033: Gazprom Media Sets 2022 Premiere Date For Russian Sci-Fi Novel Adaptation
Dmitry Glukhovsky’s epic survival sci-fi novel, Metro 2033, is officially on deck for a live-action adaptation. As Leo Barraclough’s Variety piece notes, Gazprom Media holds exclusive rights with in-house banners – TNT-Premier Studios Company, TV-3 Channel and Central Partnership – developing the film. Initially published online in 2002 as an experiment before its 2005 print release, Metro 2033 centers on a young man keen on helping solving the mystery surrounding “The Dark Ones”, creatures feared throughout by the stationed inhabitants of Moscow’s fractitious Metro system following nuclear fallout in 2013. The book has been a major hit around the world in many territories, and is the first of a trilogy of novels. It also spans a wide array of merchandising as it has over the years, including fan novels and video games. Gazprom Media’s acquisition comes nearly decade since Gluhovsky attempted to bring the IP to Hollywood, only to rescind […]
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