John Farrell is an affordable housing attorney living in West Chester Pennsylvania. He once travelled the weird west as Carrie A. Nation in Joker's Wild at: https://jokerswildpodcast.weebly.com/
Bunkers & Badasses Deluxe Edition is a surprisingly high quality release for fans of Borderlands. If that sounds like a back-handed compliment, it’s only because this review comes out at a difficult time for the franchise. It’s been a while since an official game release, and though Borderlands
Clone Cops is a difficult movie to discuss for the same reason that it ends up being so interesting: it takes a long time to show its full hand. Its premise, that American policing has been privatized and farmed out to a series of clones, packs a ton of comedic
Blackstar celebrates independent black, brown, and indigenous artists from outside the industry, and in many places outside the country. I saw films covering a huge variety of genre and tone, but all resonated with similar themes. They explored the weight of living under colonized rule and the liberation that comes
Somewhere in the world a bell tolls, a city drowns, and something wakes in the deep. The Flood Bell Tolls in Saint Magnus is a system neutral gothic setting that packs more quality and ideas into its 84 pages than many boxed sets I’ve seen. St. Magnus is a
You read that right, Neopets is making a tabletop RPG. After 25 years of games, lore, drama, and innumerable trades, the longtime fantasy site is branching out of the computer and onto your kitchen tables. Funded on its first day, the campaign is sailing through stretch goals, and at time
Indiepocalypse is working to bring new ideas to the fore, both with their games and the model for release. A collaboration between lauded cartoonist and founder of Iron Circus Comics Spike Trotman and Indiepocalypse founder Andrew Baillie, Iron Circus Games is working to bring artists and designers together to release
Portable, stylish, and mostly comprehensible, CBR + PNK Augmented brings a lot to the table. This set of 12 pamphlets contains resources for rules, characters, adventures, NPCs, and setting options in a Cyberpunk RPG about running heists and trying to get out alive. Pamphlets offer different strengths and weaknesses than a
Punisher: Nightmare is a miracle of filmmaking and a walking contradiction. Its portrayal of Frank Castle, one man force of destruction, uses all the techniques and artistry of budget filmmaking backed by the hunger and energy of the independent scene. The story is both brutal and thoughtful, grim and hopeful,
