August Book of the Month: Usagi Yojimbo Volume 8

August Book of the Month: Usagi Yojimbo Volume 8

Jul 6, 2012

Alternate Reality’s Book of the Month for August 2012 is Usagi Yojimbo Volume 8: Shades of Death. Revisit some of the rabbit ronin’s earliest adventures in this outstanding new edition of classic Usagi tales! In this volume, Usagi teams with his friend Gen, a rhino bounty hunter, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to protect an aging sensei from...

Episode 331 – New Teen Titans: Games

Episode 331 – New Teen Titans: Games

Apr 9, 2012

It’s Partin’s turn to pick the Book of the Month and this month he brings us New Teen Titans: Games. This is the OGN hardcover that bookends the Wolfman-Perez run on the New Teen Titans from over 20 years ago. This episode the boys spend most of the time drooling over the George Perez artwork. The story was so-so but the art was phenomenal. So join the guys...

Episode 327 – Tale of Sand

Episode 327 – Tale of Sand

Feb 26, 2012

Book of the Month episode!!! This month we look at Jim Henson’s “Tale of Sand” and opine on how we felt about the new graphic novel from Archaia based on an original screenplay that Jim Henson wrote but never got made into a movie. Everything goes swimmingly for 40 minutes or so until it descends into chaos and train wreckage towards the end. You don’t...

Episode 325 – Parker, the Hunter

Episode 325 – Parker, the Hunter

Jan 10, 2012

WE’RE BACK!!!! That’s right ladies and gents, the Alternate Reality crew is making a comeback and this ground zero. This is where is all begins. This is the first episode of the rest of your podcast listening life, if you will. So sit back and enjoy as Jon, Charlie, and Dewayne Feenstra regale you with their thoughts and opinions on Richard Stark’s Parker...