Sisu

The best kill in Nazi-mangling actioner Sisu, from the director of Rare Exports and the producers of John Wick, is in the trailer, but there are plenty more where that came from.

Good Exhibits Wear Black

Beyond the Little Black Dress, on the use of black in fashion, at the National Museum of Scotland starting in July. After last year’s history of anatomy, they’ve once again put on a deeply Goth exhibition that ends the weekend before Hallowe’en.

Star Wars: Shatterpoint miniatures

Rob Wieland gets an advance look at Star Wars: Shatterpoint, a new skirmish miniatures game from Atomic Mass Games (Marvel Crisis Protocol) and FFG, a few figures per side in 40mm scale, the third scale FFG have produced Star Wars skirmish miniatures in. More photos at Goonhammer. The emphasis on scenery means some packs are essentially dioramas with removable figures and a rule sheet.

Amusingly considering the game title comes from a Matthew Stover novel starring Mace Windu, there’s no Mace Windu.

VNV Nation, Electric Sun

A new VNV Nation album, including a song called Invictus joining their several songs with Chronicles Of Darkness subtitles. And it’s not the one about building the universe and holding the cosmos in our hands, which sounds like a new chapter if the band had an ongoing Demon game.

With Rick and Sue. And not sure how I got this purple desaturation effect on my phone selfie camera.

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And they pulled Runaways as well without even putting it on the list. The full list runs to over 100 titles.

Dracula Day

Dracula came out 126 years ago today.

It’s also Peter Cushing’s birthday.

And there’s a May 26th bit in Dracula too:

Telegram from Arthur Holmwood to Quincey P. Morris.

26 May.

Count me in every time. I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.

ART.

Now wondering what it would take to make one ear tingle.

Also, ha ha, he said Count.

Candela Obscura quickstart

Candela Obscura has started, and the quickstart is here. Rather Blades In The Dark, the designer has said the full book will reference its influence and Creative Commons version.

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And they sneakily added more things to the chopping block. Want to watch The Princess, or Rosaline? Hurry.

They Came From The RPG Anthology!

They Came From The RPG Anthology! presents new settings, as well as Storypath Ultra and Storypath quick and light.

Iron Man anniversary special

Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau talk Iron Man and the following fofteen years of the MCU.

Rom, the Greatest of the Spaceknights!

Through the power of people realising they could actually make money by agreeing to reprint something after sitting on it for decades, Marvel’s ROM: Spaceknight is being republished in full.

For those who don't know, as I explained five years ago, Rom was a tie-in for an unsuccessful toyline that played out like The Invaders TV series in the Marvel Universe except instead of a regular guy chasing the aliens trying to conquer the world it was a square-headed Cylon lookalike hero who talked like Aragorn, like if Klaatu and Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still were the same character and in a much worse mood.

Aye, this be our hero!

It’s a weird comic. I love it.

World Goth Day

Happy World Goth Day!

DARKNESS!

Buffy: The Lost Summer

A one-shot Buffy comic, apparently set in the TV continuity unlike Boom!’s previous run (I say apparently because when exactly does this fit?) The Lost Summer has a cute road trip setup, an auction of occult stuff (as done in Angel though tonally more like a sequence in Slayer) and an overall hangout sitcom tone. It made me smile a couple times and could have made for a fun breather episode, but other than the return to the regular universe it’s an odd thing to have on shelves in time for the Chosen anniversary.

Buffy: Chosen at 20

Yes, a lot of anniversaries for an annual thing are close together.

James Marsters on Buffy and Spike

James Marsters talks to Radio Times about Buffy and Spike’s shifting roles in the series as the exception to monsters being problems to overcome.

Buffy: Becoming at 25

Tonight marks the 25th anniversary of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer season two finale Becoming Part 2, one of the all-time emotional wrecking balls of the series.

Buffering and Slayerfest both doing double-retrospective things: Slayerfest 1 2.

And also the promo from the premiere, via old video.

By the time it aired here on BBC Two I knew what came next, but it still got me, and still gets me every time.

Winter here’s cold, and bitter...

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Disney is cutting back including pulling some series from Diney+, including original series and some pretty new ones like Willow, possibly to avoid paying episode residuals. This sucks.

Laws Of The Night V5

Laws Of The Night Minds Eye LARP rules for Vampire: The Masquerade based on V5, now on Backerkit and funded in an hour and a half.

The character sheet previews certainly look like V5. (With Hunger adapted so that Bestial Failures and Messy Criticals come up at points on the Hunger level, it looks like.)

Available in small paperback as well as big hardback (and PDF, of course) for less weight carrying around locations. (I have the Revised paperback from The Grand Masquerade and it would be much handier to travel with)

Still rock-paper-scissors, with no Bomb now.

Bunny on a broomstick

I’d love to see more of some of the stories glimpsed in Will Quinn’s Daily Bunny cartoons. Today’s, for example:

Daily bunny no.2124 is ready to fly

Russ Nicholson

Russ Nicholson, known for his art for Fighting Fantasy starting with The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain as well as Warhammer and more, has died.

A memorable example of his style from Titan