Tag: Fantasy
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A Clash of Kings
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Written by Matthew Pardue I’m having trouble with this review for a few reasons. First, A Clash of Kings is similar enough in style to the first book that most of what I said in my last review still applies. I still prefer the HBO adaption (the second season more…
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And Now, for Something Completely Different
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Written by Matthew Pardue Originally I’d planned to review Lackadaisy today (it seemed like a good follow-up to last week’s), but then on Monday, my day off, I finally got around to reading A Game of Thrones, the first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire. All…
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Family Man, Bite Me, and Outfoxed
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Written by Matthew Pardue As promised, today we have three comics by Dylan Meconis, a freelance artist and writer who’s worked on a lot of publications according to her FAQs page, but is best known (by me, anyway, which is what counts) for her webcomics. I’ll review them in the…
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The DM of the Rings by Shamus Young
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Written by Matthew Pardue We interrupt this regularly scheduled novel review to bring you a webcomic review. I mentioned in my previous review that although I am highly interested in mythology, fantasy, and language, I dislike The Lord of the Rings, primarily because of Tolkien’s writing style. I enjoyed the…
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The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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As a Gender Studies minor, I am aware of the roles of women and the portrayal of gender norms in novels that I read for class. However, I was first introduced to gender studies as a way of life—not as an academic discipline—through reading Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of…
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Webcomics, Part IV: Unsounded
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Written by Matthew Pardue By now, hopefully you’ve all seen Coty’s review on Berserk. I’ve heard a fair bit about it before, although I’ve never read the manga. Still, I was glad to see his choice, because a dark, adult fantasy story with horror elements makes for a nice lead-in…