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October is the month of Halloween. AIPT wants to lighten the mood with Dark Horse Team’s free comic, The Strange Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #1. A great first issue from creators James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, and Isaac Goodhart, but don’t take that away from me. Read Alex Schlesinger’s review.This is the perfect time to tune in to Christopher Chaos, as The Oddly Pedestrian Life Of Christopher Chaos Halloween special will be released next week.Don’t miss past Free Comic Fridays. Each issue has many full issues that you can read right now!So, what is The Strange Pedestrian Life of…
Back in the hazy days of summer (a month ago), a mysterious image of Grant Morrison with an ice cream theme was floating around, and speculation about its esoteric meaning turned out to be correct. He’s coming to the Ice Cream Man page. And they brought friends. Mr. Morrison joins Ice Cream Man creator W. Maxwell Prince (Art Brut, Swan Songs, Ha Ha), artists Martin Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran, as well as Patton Oswalt, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Jeff Lemire, Geoff Johns, Zoe Thorogood, Deniz Camp and Frank Barbiere. These heavyweights contribute one-page horror stories with art by Morazzo…
Disco Elysium is widely hailed as one of the best RPGs of all time, but the future of the series is up in the air. Planned sequels and expansions were canceled, and developer ZA/UM laid off some employees as a result. There are also notoriously nasty battles over intellectual property ownership. Still, the essence of the original game is very much alive, especially with new studios working on spiritual successors. The project will continue the “thoughtful, story-first approach that characterized its predecessors.”London-based Longdue’s 12-person team includes some of the developers who worked on Disco Elysium and its aborted sequel, as…
The end is near: Image Comics has announced that COPRA will cease to exist in January 2025. The four-issue final installment of Michelle Fyffe’s ongoing indie love letter to superheroes (and Suicide Squad) will be released on January 8, 2025 at 32 pages. . The first issue will feature five variant covers, four by Fif and one by Jeff Lemire. This slideshow requires JavaScript. COPRA and its cast of mercenaries have garnered critical acclaim and a growing fan base since Fif began self-publishing the series in November 2012. With the help of Bergen Street Press, the writer and artist’s series…
October’s Prime Day may have come and gone, but you can still save on Lego sets right now. You may think it’s too early to think about holiday shopping, but these kits make great gifts for young adults and grown adults alike. At Engadget, we’re most interested in certain sets like Super Mario, Star Wars, and Harry Potter, and some of these are still on sale for up to 41% off. These are the best Prime Day Lego deals still available today.Prime Day Lego sales still availableOn the Star Wars side, this Spider Tank set is 36% off down to…
Inklore teased something special on October 9th with a strange spiral icon. It turns out the publisher is partnering with Tiny Onion and founder James Tynion IV to launch a new graphic novel program. The program will feature 12 books, consisting of three original graphic novel series. “I spend a lot of time thinking about the right location for each project, and over the years I’ve stuck with some of my favorites, letting the world cook out into incredibly vibrant places and ,” Tynion said. “With Inklore, we have found the perfect partner to bring these new worlds to the…
This week, we’re joined by tech critic Paris Marx to discuss Data Vampires, his latest Tech Won’t Save us podcast series. We chat about how data centers suck up vast amounts of power, water and other resources, and why the AI boom is exacerbating those issues. Also, Devindra and Ben dive into a few news stories, including the DOJ inching closer towards a Google antitrust breakup; Nintendo’s adorable motion sensing alarm clock, Alarmo; and why Google’s Deepmind AI head won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you’ve got suggestions or topics…
Australian gamers will no longer have to buy a Steam Deck from a reseller at exorbitant prices or import it into the country with the help of friends overseas. Valve announced at PAX Australia that it will start selling handheld PC game consoles in the country from November. Currently, Steam Deck is only available in the US, Canada, UK, EU, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from Komodo’s website. However, Valve updated the console’s official page with an announcement: “Your games will be down by November 2024.”Both LCD and OLED versions will be sold in Australia, with buyers buying…
Comedian and author John Mulaney will host a live variety talk show on streaming company Netflix, announced in a post by X. The show could be similar to Mulaney’s live talk show “Everybody’s in LA,” which streamed for six episodes on Netflix in May 2024. .Mulaney’s production company will produce and he will serve as showrunner, but other details were not disclosed. But at an event in Los Angeles, Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, said “Everybody’s in LA” is indicative of what a weekly live talk/variety show on the service could look like. he said. “[It was]so bold, original,…
Welcome to another edition of Fantastic Five, where we shout out the best comics of the week!This week, Absolute Batman takes the comics world by storm, and a new line of Ewoks makes a surprise appearance. Let’s take a look at the book!Best comics of the week of October 9, 2024#5: Precious metal #5No more places to hide, no more excuses to hand over money, no more questions to answer. (OK, I still have a lot of questions, but I get it, right?) Now it’s time to see what our heroes are really made of (not just blood and mods),…