Spy x Family is a manga that I didn’t know I needed. Set in a fictional world where a tumultuous peace exists between the rival nations of Westalis and Ostania, a Westalis spy is tasked with infiltrating and spying on an Ostanian leader. Unfortunately, the target is sort of a recluse who only ever makes …
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Game Review: Moonlighter
I had picked up Moonlighter earlier this year along with a handful of other titles but since the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, I hadn’t given it much thought. Now that Legends Arceus is more or less done (the main storyline is done but the post game is still left), I decided over the weekend …
Book Review: The Terminal List – Jack Carr
Another book I picked up because of a trailer seen online. The Terminal List is an upcoming show on amazon prime video starring Chris Pratt and, of course, its based off a book. Like my earlier review of The Gray Man, Terminal List is another book that a lot of action fans will love. The …
Book Review: The Gray Man – Mark Greaney
I watched the trailer for the movie 'The Gray Man' on youtube the other day and I wondered if this was based off a book. A quick google search gave me the answer and I soon found myself reading the novel of the same name. The book is the first in a series of novels …
Series Review: He who fights with Monsters – Shirtaloon
This has been on my TBR for a while now. I got thrown into the LitRPG scene I think about a year ago with Will Wight's Cradle Series. I remember devouring those 9 books (at the time) over a period of 3 weeks. I'll upload a review of that sometime in the future. I followed …
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Doodle: Green Lantern
This has been a while in coming. I remember reading the Dark Nights: Metal graphic novel and absolutely loving the artwork. It finally made me want to pick up the sketchbook and doodle some of the characters I found in those pages, one of which was Green Lantern. I started the pencil sketch of this …
Series Review: Absolute All-Star Superman
All-Star Superman is a 12 issue series from the famous Grant Morrison and Frant Quitely. Having been a fan of Grant Morrison's Batman run I was excited to pick this up. This is probably the first standalone Superman comic I’ve read but in spite of that it seems unlikely that any other could surpass this …
Book Review: Dark Nights Metal
This is the first Batman graphic novel I’ve read in a long time. The team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo return after their impresive Batman new 52 run. I heard quite a bit about this at the time of its release in 2017. The story revolves around a very interesting premise involving the multiverse …
Book Review: Kings of the Wyld
I remember seeing this book in passing but didn’t pick it up because, going by the cover, I assumed it was some dark fantasy/horror related story (yes, I judged a book by its cover). I was way off base in that it wasn’t really dark, nor was it from the horror genre. Its definitely fantasy …
Game Review: Pokémon Legends: Arceus
A refreshing take on the pokémon games that have been more or less the same since their inception. Having played most of the games since Pokémon Crystal version, I quite liked this new iteration of the game franchise. Pokémon Legends: Arceus explores a very early time in the pokémon world when pokémon were still considered …
Book Review: The Paris Detective (Detective Luc Moncrief #1-3) – James Patterson & Richard DiLallo
I should start this by saying that I picked this up because the title made me think of a Hercule Poirot or Armand Gamache type protagonist. What I got instead was a young mix between Poirot and Jacques Clouseau, leaning towards the latter. This book, though interesting at times, was a little disappointing. It feels …
Doodle: Inktober 2021 – Pokémon edition (coloured)
Well this took longer than expected. Life seemed to get in the way of me finishing the last two sketches. I finally sat myself down and got through them this weekend. So here we are, the finished (coloured) Inktober 2021 - Pokémon edition. These have been coloured in using the procreate app on the iPad. …
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Book Review: Before the Batman: An Original Movie Novel
Before the Batman is a prequel novel to Matt Reeves' The Batman movie. The book is fairly short, and seems like its targeted at a younger audience as compared to the movie which was much darker and grittier. We are given glimpses into the past of both Bruce Wayne and Edward Nashton* and how their …
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Rediscovering Pokémon cards
Pokémon cards have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Back when I was in school in Bangalore, India, I remember asking my dad to get me a pack of pokémon cards for doing well in some exams. He obliged but then boggled at the price of 80 or …
Series Review: Jack West Jr. #4, 5, 6 and 7 – Matthew Reilly
Once again we’re back in the world of Jack West Jr. Couldn’t wait to pick up these books after the first three. The seventh and final book of the series released in October of last year. The fourth book took some time in coming since it was released almost 7 years after book 3. The …
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March Book Haul
This weekend we decided to visit the local oxfam bookstore to see if they had any secondhand books that we could add to our collection at home. I came away with the few you see in the image. David Gibbins’ The Pharaoh, and The Tiger Warrior I hadn’t heard of before but since I’ve been …
Series Review: Jack West Jr. #2-3 – Matthew Reilly
Jack West Jr. #2 - The Six Sacred Stones This is the follow up book to the Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly. While this potentially could be read on its own, there are quite a few references to events that happened in the previous book. In fact the events of this book are a …
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Game Review: Into the Breach
Into the breach is a game I’ve heard about for a while but had never picked it up to play until recently. In spite of having a copy of the game on the pc I picked up the switch version in the hope that having the game in a handheld console would get me to …
Series Review: Warcross Duology – Marie Lu
This duology written by Marie Lu takes places in a dystopian future very similar to that seen in Ready Player One. Here as well we have the general populace hooked onto the use of technology that allows them to roam a virtual world. In this series this virtual space is mainly used for Warcross, a …
Book Review: Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1) – Louise Penny
Keigo Higashino has me craving mystery books this year, so I picked up Still Life by Louise Penny in the hopes of something similar. This is the first book in the series, where we follow the exploits of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, a member of the provincial police force of Quebec, as he solves mysteries …
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