The Valley and the Flood Review By Amanda Hudgins • March 8th, 2021 The novel The Valley and the Flood is Welcome to Nightvale meets Kentucky Route Zero meets Big Fish.
Gingy's Corner Huniepop 2 By Gingy Gibson • February 26th, 2021 A disappointing sequel actively working to quash any joy the player may attempt to derive from it.
Little Nightmares II and the Case of Weak Imagery By Amanda Hudgins • February 15th, 2021 Not every game has to say something with its imagery, but it’s clear that Little Nightmares II wants desperately to be saying something.
Try Reading... 50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021 Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.
Winter’s Orbit, Fireheart Tiger, and the Empire By Amanda Hudgins • February 5th, 2021 I started reading Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger around the same time as I started finishing Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit and found overlap in both the temporal and literal sense.
Casting Deep Meteo El Hijo, the Solid Snake of Tag By Levi Rubeck • February 4th, 2021 In stealth games, I always aspire to be the ghost.
Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) Review By Amanda Hudgins • January 25th, 2021 Advice books need to hit a sweet spot of giving the right amount of advice for the audience of course, but again I’m not sure who Everybody Has a Podcast is for.
Things Change: the Last Starfighter on Blu-Ray By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2020 Add The Last Starfighter to the list of movies I was positive I had seen but actually hadn’t.
Try Reading... Avatar Forever By Harry Rabinowitz • December 21st, 2020 Writer Gene Luen Yang understands exactly what made Avatar great, and continues the magic in comic book form.
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2020 A sequel to Nghi Vo’s also fantastic Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain is a story about oral history and mythmaking.