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Month: January 2016

  • Maron

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    I’ve been watching season 3 of Maron on Netflix, and after what felt like a bit of a lackluster second season, I’m finding this one to be really great so far (I’m about half-way through it). I’m a long-time listener of his WTF podcast, and was really excited when this series first launched, so it’s…

  • Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

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    I’m finding that I’ve really fallen out of love with this series. I was really into it during the first couple of seasons, but then never managed to watch all 3 episodes in the 3rd one, and although I watched this special, I wasn’t particularly captivated by it. It offers up a neat idea –…

  • Halt and Catch Fire

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    I love this series so much, it’s ridiculous. There’s something about tech and computing in the 80s that I find so damn sexy, and this show is basically 80s computing porn, with a good cast and good storyline. Oh, and the music is fantastic too. I just recently watched the first season on Netflix –…

  • Best American

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    Over the years I’ve enjoyed quite a few of the “Best American” short story anthologies – especially the Comics one and the Nonrequired Reading one – and so the other day I was quite happy to catch a one-day sale on Amazon, with each Kindle edition of the 2015 series available for $2. I bought all…

  • The Vision

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    I read a lot of comics – and I mean, A LOT – but one thing that I noticed in 2015 is that I gradually started losing interest in pretty much all of the super-hero series being put out by the Big 2 (DC and Marvel). One exception is a series that is only on…

  • Berceuse Assassine

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    Following my enjoyment of the Undertaker series, I decided to try and find some more work from the creators of that book, and came across this 3-book series by the same artist, and written by Tome, whose work I’ve also enjoyed in the past (Spirou & Fantasio, Soda). Berceuse Assassine has a rather interesting concept,…

  • Undertaker

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    As I mentioned in my favorite media of 2015 post, when it comes to graphic novels, I tend to play a lot of catch up at the end of the year, as the year-end lists start to come out. On the French side, a new Western series called Undertaker piqued my interest, and so I…

  • Shinra Defeated

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    So yeah, this happened to me on Tuesday (or take your pick). In the past I’ve started the year with a post that looks optimistically at what the coming year may bring – last year I was already starting to set my sights on moving back to North America, which I of course did.  This…

  • Tearaway Unfolded

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    I’m embarrassed to say I never got around to playing the original Vita version, but was quite excited at the prospect of the PS4 version – looking all pretty like it does – and finally picked it up over the holidays during a PSN sale. In my post about LittleBigPlanet 3 I was saying how…

  • LittleBigPlanet 3

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    I love this series so damn much, and as I’ve said before, I think it’s one of the best art directed bunch of games ever (although I’ve just started playing Tearaway Unfolded, and that’s blowing me away as well). I finally got around to playing LittleBigPlanet 3 over the holidays – grabbing it during one…