Over at Cinerati, Christian Johnson posted an excellent rant about my post here yesterday on my Brave New World RPG and Marvel Comics‘ upcoming Civil War event. While I enjoyed the essay (go read it, and then come back here), I want to clarify one of the comments I made on my own post, which Christian quotes. I wrote: BNW …
Echoes of Brave New World
ICv2.com has an article on the upcoming Civil War event from Marvel Comics. It quotes a New York Times article on the subject (you may have to register to read this). According to the reporter: The question at the heart of the series is a fundamental one: “Would you give up your civil liberties to feel safer in the world?” …
R.E.V.s Information
It seems I can tell you that R.E.V.s stands for Radically Engineered Vehicles (a name I came up with). Also, Figures.com has a gallery of R.E.V.s photos from the Toy Fair, plus an article about the line. (It turns out they covered the line last fall too, with an article and a gallery of early prototypes.) As they write: The …
DC Battle Dice Preview
Toy News International has an article about the upcoming DC Battle Dice game I designed for Playmates Toys. (This is the DC Comics version of the Marvel Heroes Battle Dice game, of course.) They also have a gallery up, which features photos of the figures from both lines. This includes a shot of unpainted masters for the DC dice chuckers: …
REV It Up!
Altered States Magazine has more images of Marvel Heroes Battle Dice from the Toy Fair. If you want to see something else I’ve been working on with Playmates, click on the links under R.E.V.s. The fantastic designers at Playmates came up with this all-new toy line and drafted me in to help out with developing the characters, the setting, and …
Battle Dice Story
The Herald Bulletin of Anderson, Indiana, features a story about how Battle Dice came about. It includes quotes from Playmates Toys‘ Pat Linden about how I became involved in the design of the game.
Marked for Death Review
The fine people at Cinerati just posted a review of Marked for Death. It’s a good, solid piece with what I think are fair criticisms of the book.
Sam’s Story
I met Jeph Loeb several years back, when I was working on the WildStorms Collectible Card Game for WildStorm Productions (which was then part of Image Comics but is now owned by DC). We played in Jim Lee’s annual poker game at Comic-Con International, and I got cleaned out quick. I saw him again at the same convention in 2004, …
New Knights Covers
Amazon.com has posted the covers to my next two Knights of the Silver Dragon novels: Prophecy of the Dragons and The Dragons Revealed. These form a two-part story (“Revelations”) due out this summer, the results of which shake the world of Kellach, Moyra, and Driskoll to its core. Click the thumbnails for larger pictures of the covers. Note that they …
New Marvel Battle Dice Playmat
Playmates has released a PDF of a demo-ready playmat for Marvel Heroes Battle Dice. This puts the regular playmat together with the reference sheet that describes all the different powers in the game. It’s the perfect tool for teaching people how to play, and the Playmates demo team will be using it at their premiere appearance at Megacon next weekend.