I Played It, Like, Twice... The Agony of Adaptation: Hellboy and the Perils of Fandom (and Kickstarter) By Orrin Grey • December 9th, 2020 For a while there, writing about Hellboy: The Board Game, about being a Hellboy fan, and what the franchise means to me as a creator, all felt too fraught.
Rookie of the Year I’m Slowly Cracking Under the Weight of Tap Sports Baseball By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2020 Now I live in fear that my favorite player of all time will show up in a mystery box.
Here's the Thing It’s Okay To Let Stuff End By Rob Rich • December 8th, 2020 Rob posits that, in a lot of instances, it’s better to let the stories and characters we love end rather than drag things out so long they become boring or just plain bad.
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.
Palace of the Vampire Queen By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 7th, 2020 Why would she have a garlic garden? We don’t know and the adventure never says, but there is one!
Another Look Crowded Apocalypse By Yussef Cole • December 7th, 2020 “A vibrant wasteland, a sparkling new way to experience a dull old formula.”
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Side B By Stu Horvath • December 4th, 2020 Is Seventh Son of a Seventh Son the best Iron Maiden album ever? Can it possibly trump Powerslave? Can Ed’s marriage survive his wife’s ambivalence towards Iron Maiden? The suspense is surely killing you, so listen now!
Immortals Fenyx Rising: Interview with Jeffrey Yohalem By W.C. Hoag • December 4th, 2020 Ancient Greeks took their entertainment seriously—these people invented theatres, after all—and Greek dramas served to investigate the world they lived in and what it means to be human.
No Accounting for Taste Leap of Faith By Adam Boffa • December 4th, 2020 When game industry realism and creative ambition collide.
Self-Insert Tagging By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2020 Tagging fics is both a conversation and a function in fanfiction.
