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/
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,
The works of Andrew Bowser serve as a uniquely poignant case study on the philosophy, methodology, style, and even presentation of independent film. He has worked in the “professional” filmmaking scene, but usually his titular characters share a thirst for acceptance that calls to artists working in the independent scene.
Live now, Severed Toys is Kickstarting its collaboration with Mörk Borg on a series of action figures for the Dread Risen, each paired with original zines from Johan Nohr and Pelle Nilsson, creators of Mörk Borg. Coming in four variants Standard edition, Blood Drenched, Glow-in-the-Dark, and Cursed (Fully Blacked Out
The People’s Joker is a walking contradiction. Exactly what I expected and wildly above expectation. At the same time it was stylish and artless, genius and stupid, ironic shitpost and sincere masterpiece. This portrait of trans comedian Vera Drew, her life and struggles, through the neon CG-soaked veneer of
The video game industry sits at an insidious nexus of profitable and technological; it makes shady decision-making lucrative and insulates those decisions from laws and legislators who are not up to speed on the state of the industry. What results is the slow encroachment of anti-consumer practices that find their
