Looking for gifts for tabletop gamers? Here are some of my suggestions based on games I've enjoyed this year… and games I would love to see under my tree this… Read the rest of the article: Tabletop gamer's gift guide for 2024

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! When it comes to the pantheon of Marvel Comics' greatest hits, narrowing the list down to just ten… Read the rest of the article: Marvel's greatest hits curated by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Fifty years after its 1974 debut rocked the comics world, the venerable French publisher Humanoids has launched a… Read the rest of the article: Humanoids is bringing back the future, one "Metal Hurlant" at a time

In this episode of Amoeba's What's In My Bag?, legendary comic, podcast host, and "occasional actor," Marc Maron, takes to Amoeba's bins to offer us a glimpse into his musical… Read the rest of the article: Marc Maron reveals "What's in My Bag?"

There are so many games that I absolutely love but have yet to actually play. One of them is Free League's multi-award-winning Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game (see my previous… Read the rest of the article: Blade Runner RPG: A masterclass in world-building and storytelling

Necromolds ($60, two players, ages 9 and up) is a devilishly fun tabletop wargame where you make and field armies of monstrous golems cast from clay. If you've been looking… Read the rest of the article: Necromolds is a fun, squishy, and creative wargame

Four years ago, we wrote about Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons, the gorgeous collection of seminal sword and sorcery and dark fantasy fiction that Peter Bebergal… Read the rest of the article: Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition

Hold onto your satin capes and spandex underpants, comics nerds! This year's San Diego Comic-Con will get a superheroic boost of nostalgia and free speech advocacy as Oni Press teams… Read the rest of the article: Party at San Diego Comic-Con to revive EC Comics legacy

The highly-anticipated first trade paperback of Ben Stenbeck's Our Bones Dust hits bookstores today. Ben is a long-time collaborator with Mike Mignola (on projects such as Baltimore, Witchfinder, Frankenstein, and… Read the rest of the article: Ben Stenbeck's post-apocalyptic comic debut, "Our Bones Dust"

It seems like, these days, every YouTube game/dungeon crafter has also gone into game design and publishing. DM Scotty has EZD6, Jeremy of Black Magic Craft has Idols of Torment,… Read the rest of the article: Neon Skies, a standout cyberpunk TTRPG worth your attention

Humanoids, the Franco-American publisher known for being home to legendary creators like Mœbius and Alejandro Jodorowsky, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a groundbreaking new release. For the first time,… Read the rest of the article: Legendary artist Caza's "Arkadi and the Lost Titan' finally sees English release

CYN, a new graphic novel from acclaimed comics artist, Ibrahim Moustafa, is set to hit the shelves of your friendly neighborhood nerd store this month. Joining Ibrahim on the project… Read the rest of the article: Ibrahim Moustafa's cybernetic sci-fi western, "CYN," comes to life

I have a confession to make. In all of my decades of playing RPGs, I've never taken a D&D character to higher than Level 6. And I haven't felt lacking… Read the rest of the article: D&D's latest module, "Vecna: Eve of Ruin," and the trouble with high-level adventures

Paul Di Filippo's latest science fiction novel, Vangie's Ghosts (Blackstone Publishing), is an impressively entertaining, deeply compelling speculation on the multiverse and the boundless potential of the human mind. The… Read the rest of the article: Review: Paul Di Filippo trips the multiverse fantastic in "Vangie's Ghosts"

Anna Green is an 18-year-old hospitality intern just trying to keep her head down and do the job at her first hotel gig. That job is on HOTELITOR, a "luxury… Read the rest of the article: HOTELITOR, the combat mech/service workers sci-fi adventure you didn't know you needed

In 1943, writer Peter Kien and composer Viktor Ullmann were rehearsing their opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis. They had created this work while imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp in… Read the rest of the article: Tyranny and resistance in "Death Strikes," the graphic novel adaptation of a concentration camp opera

Few pieces of art have managed to capture my recent attention and imagination quite like Larnie and Bodil Fox's kinetic sound sculptures. Their latest exhibition, showing at NY2CA Gallery in… Read the rest of the article: The orchestrated whimsy of Larnie and Bodil Fox's kinetic sound sculptures

In the world of comic book artistry, few names shine as brightly as Tim Sale. Sale, along with writer Jeph Loeb, worked on iconic titles like Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man… Read the rest of the article: Rediscovering Tim Sale's legacy in a new color edition of "BILLI 99"

In a new collaboration between The Folio Society and DC, an unparalleled tribute to Gotham's guardian is now available to comic book fans and book enthusiasts. DC: Batman ($100) marks… Read the rest of the article: Explore Batman's 85-year legacy in the lavish "DC: Batman Deluxe Edition"

For my birthday last month, I wanted to play something special with my game-designer offspring, Blake. I wanted us to play something old school. I had OGRE and Car Wars… Read the rest of the article: Celebrating my birthday in the BattleTech universe