Eyeing Elsewhere Owning the Mask By Phillip Russell • February 8th, 2021 I want Black stories to feel whole, to feel uncompromising and to take risks.
Heaven from the Other Side By Yussef Cole • February 8th, 2021 Blasphemous serves as an aesthetic exploration of the mind of the devout.
Alice is Missing By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 8th, 2021 A silent RPG about a missing friend, played over text messages. Plus: a quick chat with Lucian Kahn (Visigoths vs Mall Goths)!
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.
Letter to a Heroine Mei By Melissa King • February 5th, 2021 “News stories don’t always have to be major, they just have to matter.”
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.
They Live is Evergreen By David Peddicord • February 3rd, 2021 They Live’s messaging isn’t just evergreen; it is the kind of film you can read from just the memes of star Roddy Piper putting on magical sunglasses and discovering subliminal messages behind advertisements.
Rookie of the Year More Songs About Bob and Judy By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2021 Did David Byrne invent Twin Peaks? Matt thinks so.
I Played It, Like, Twice… The Moorcock Connection: Sailors on the Seas of Warhammer Quest By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2021 I realized what Age of Sigmar really was: Games Workshop leaning hard into that Moorcockian strain of cosmic fantasy that had always been there.
