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Contributing host Ray MacKay recently sat down with Brock Smith about his Payne campaign, now on Kickstarter. You can watch the whole show with Brock on YouTube.   Ray: We…

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Okay, I have been doing the podcast thing for several years now. And, truth be told, I always consider myself a small fish in a big pond. One of the…

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After nearly 28 years, one of the most influential voices in comic book journalism has fallen silent. Newsarama, the pioneering site that shaped how fans, creators, and industry insiders consumed…

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                      With G-Man Comics coming up on their monumental achievement of 100th issues published, I’d like to congratulate the founders, Rik…

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PORTLAND, Ore. 04/27/2026 — From the bestselling and award-winning duo behind Reckless, The Fade Out, Kill Or Be Killed, and Criminal(coming in 2026 to Prime Video) comics noir grandmasters Ed Brubaker…

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The comic book world has lost one of its most influential storytellers. Gerry Conway, the prolific writer whose work helped shape both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, has passed away…

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2000 AD Prog 2480 UK and DIGITAL: 29 April £3.99 COVER: JOE CURRIE In This Issue: JUDGE DREDD // SILENT WITNESS by Ken Niemand (w) Nick Dyer (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l) BRINK // THE CALL OF…

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In the landscape of 2026, the traditional “geek den” has undergone a radical transformation. What was once a cluttered corner of a basement or a spare bedroom filled with mismatched…

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In Back Issue #167, we celebrate Girls, Women, and Ladies, as we spend some quality time with Squirrel Girl, Sue Richards, the Invisible Woman, Phantom Lady, Saturn Girl, and more. Featuring the…

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The Legend of Korra comics have debuted on WEBTOON in a brand-new, vertical scroll format as part of the digital comics platform’s partnership with Dark Horse Comics. The Legend of…

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The new Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is out now, celebrating 30 years since the TV Movie

Three decades ago, the world’s favourite Time Lord returned, and it was about time! The Doctor Who TV Movie is unique in the show’s history, yet also a missing link between the 20th and 21st century incarnations of the show. The charismatic, romantic new lead Paul McGann took his new friend Grace by the hand and led her through motorbike chases, daring heists, and his the vast dark chamber that is his TARDIS, as they try to stop the Master’s plan to wipe the entire planet from existence.

Since then Paul McGann’s incarnation of the Time Lord has starred in just under 500 audio plays, novels, comics, and more, including returns to television for Night of the Doctor and The Power of the Doctor.

Now, Doctor Who Magazine marks 30 years of the Eighth Doctor with a special edition revisiting the 1996 TV movie and celebrating Paul McGann’s extraordinary tenure in the role.

Exclusive interviews include: Paul McGann (the Doctor), Daphne Ashbrook (Grace Holloway), Eric Roberts (the Master), Geoffrey Sax (the TV movie’s director), Steven Moffat (The Night of the Doctor writer) and many more. There are also contributions from Sylvester McCoy (the Old Doctor) and the team behind the new 4K restoration of the movie.

Other highlights include a new short story by Matthew Jacobs, the writer of the TV movie, and an afterword by Philip Segal, its executive producer.

 

DWM Special Edition: 30 Years of the Eighth Doctor (c) Panini DWM Special Edition: 30 Years of the Eighth Doctor

DWM Special Edition: 30 Years of the Eighth Doctor is on sale Thursday the 23rd of April from the online Panini store, TG Jones and other retailers priced £10.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from Pocketmags for £9.99. You can also save with a subscription, as well as receiving exclusive, text-free covers.

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 In the smog-choked, alternate-history landscape of the Wretched Interbellum, the line between man and machine is blurring. Rumors have reached your cell of a terrifying breakthrough by the Special Armed Police Force (The Kerberos): the Protect Gear prototype.This isn't just armor; it’s a psychological weapon designed to turn a soldier into a faceless, unstoppable executioner. Your mission: Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

In Southeast Parsulan, the Karkharoth badlands are an inhospitable, monster-haunted region of gullies and ravines between low, barren, red ridges, at times scarred by jagged rock formations like rows of fangs. In a broad canyon surrounding one of a rare oases is the fortress city-state of Kamazot.

The broken and desolate terrain isn't natural but instead due to the folly of man. In the Age of the Wizard Kings, attempts to push the then-fertile lands to even higher yields, coupled with sabotage from rival lands led to disruption of local fae elementals and a wounding of the land. The weakening of the polity made the region vulnerable to raids from the humanoid nations to the north serving to further depopulate the old kingdom.

The Demon War might have thoroughly returned the badlands to wilderness and ruin, but a warlord rose to organize disparate tribal groups and led them to re-occupy Kamazot. The armies unearthed ancient magitech weapons and restored them to the repaired fortress walls. The city they rebuilt developed into an autocracy organized along military lines, which persists to this day. Despite its regimented society, Kamazot has always been opened to outsiders who prove their worth. Even humanoids and those of monstrous ancestry are occasionally accepted into their society. 

It is rare for rulership succession in the city-state to be passed hereditarily. Instead, the clan generals elect an Imperator. The current ruler, Dornon Gundark, is unusual in that he was a clanless outsider who rose through the ranks due to his battle prowess and canny out-maneuvering of rivals at a time when Kamazot had been weakened by poor leadership.  He enjoys both popular support and the loyalty of most of the generals. Those less supportive are kept in line by his command of the Red Hawks, an elite force drawn mostly from those born outside the city and discriminated minorities such as humanoids and Darklings.

 Dornon directs his forces to seek out magitech weapons to add to the state's arsenal. He is very fond of cannons, the bigger the better. He pays handsomely for the recovery of weaponry from ancient ruins and dungeons.

His interests in technology extend beyond weaponry, however. Recently a railroad line was completed linking Kamazot with the Northern Parsulan industrial hubs. The line passes a perilous route through humanoid territory, however, and must employ adventurers and mercenaries both the trains and crews effecting repairs. Another line is planned between Kamazot and the port of Ervessos, but interests in the rival states of the Lightbearer Republic and Grancazarel oppose to close and alliance between those regional powers.

 Published in 1992 by Peter Adkison (who later founded Wizards of the Coast), The Primal Order (TPO) is a landmark "capsule" supplement. It wasn't meant to replace your game; it was designed to sit on top of any RPG—whether D&D, GURPS, or Shadowrun—to provide a rigorous, mechanical framework for playing as, or interacting with, actual deitiesIt is famous for introducing Primal Base, the Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

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The new Target novelisation of Aliens of London revisits the Powell Estate we know and love, while subtly expanding its links to the rest of the Whoniverse

 

Appropriately enough, Aliens of London starts at the beginning. Not the beginning of the episode, mind; not the TARDIS fading into existence on the Powell Estate, twelve months late. No, it flashes forward to the Doctor chasing down a corridor after an escaped space pig. That’s the very first scene Christopher Eccleston filmed, back in 2004; the very first Doctor Who filming in eight years. It also acts as a perfect miniature model of the era: the silliness of a pig in a spacesuit, the frenetic action of the chase; the tragic violence of humanity’s fear of the different as a panicking soldier shoots it dead; and Christopher Eccleston acting his socks off to sell it all, flitting between excitement, sorrow, and anger from one moment to the next.

 

Author Joseph Lidster expands on some of Russell T Davies’ throwaway references in joyously niche ways

For his Target novelisation of Russell T Davies’ script, author Joseph Lidster makes few major changes. However, he does ease it more smoothly into the wider character arcs. In these early episodes, both Jackie and Mickey represented everything Rose was running away from. As time passed their characterisation became deeper and more subtle, and the Target Aliens of London captures that. Jackie is the woman everyone on the Powell Estate knows they can rely on in a crisis, and whose loss of her husband Pete fuels her refusal to accept her daughter’s disappearance. Mickey is a much more sympathetic figure, too, with fewer comedy pratfalls and more heart.

There are other small tweaks too. The text retains Rose’s use of “you’re so gay” as an insult, but reframes it as a moment of failure. Meanwhile, links between this story and The Christmas Invasion, Boom Town, and even Torchwood’s Exit Wounds are smoothly expanded upon as if it was one big plan all along. The addition of a supporting cast member from Big Finish’s Ninth Doctor Adventures is a delightful surprise too. Similarly, expanding upon the original’s split second DWM comic strip reference is a niche joy even by Target standards.

 

From the tragic backstory of a pig in spaaaace, to the sibling rivalries of the Slitheen, the Target retelling delivers a broader and deeper version of the familiar story

Other minor changes seem more arbitrary, and don’t always entirely work, such as the new version of how Harriet Jones (MP for Flydale North) discovers the Slitheen’s secret. There’s also an element, common with some other recent novelisations, of assuming the reader is already familiar with the episodes. This is in contrast to the Target Books of the 1970s and 80s were there was a clear awareness many would never have seen the television versions before picking up the books. The new approach results in some oddities, like the reader receiving only a vague idea of what Slitheen actually look like. Even some dialogue is rather flatly transcribed, relying on our memories of Eccleston and Piper’s performances.

The novelisation is at its strongest during its own additions, like showing early events from the point of view of Barry the Space Pig, or the relationships between the Slitheen themselves. The overall result of these additions and small changes is a novel that feels like the closest thing to a Special Edition of Aliens of London, until the inevitable Collection boxset provides optional new special effects. It’s absolutely the same story, but given more room to breath, and to connect with the whoniverse around it.

 

Doctor Who: Aliens of London. Cover by Dan Lilles (c) Target Books Doctor Who: Aliens of London

The Doctor brings Rose home a year after she left… to find London in chaos. A spaceship has crashed into the Thames and an alien body lies in the wreckage. The Doctor uncovers a chilling conspiracy at the heart of Downing Street as ruthless alien invaders take control – members of the Family Slitheen.

The Doctor, Rose, and the MP for Flydale North must fight to expose the Slitheen infiltration – before the Earth falls prey to a deadly interstellar con that will ignite World War Three.

You can buy Aliens of London in paperback, ebook, or as an audiobook read by Camille Coduri from your preferred retailer at the links here.

 

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