Gunnerkigg Court is the long-running story of a young woman and her close friends discovering their boarding school is much, much more than it seems. Quiet, polite Antimony Carver begins her first-year studies at the eponymous court and begins to notice the strange goings on and begins to investigate despite the obstacle of the tight-lipped…
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Welcome back for another week of delightful tabletop gaming news. It’s been a busy, busy week in the wide world of analog gaming. We’ve got space ships, dark gods from beyond space and time, a few coveted awards and ELVES…IN…SPAAAACE! Arguably the most exciting news this week was WizKids’ announcement of…
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Once I got my iPhone, my digital camera went on a shelf and hasn’t seen the light of day for over two years. While taking pictures using my phone is convenient, importing photos to my computer just to edit them can be time consuming. I’ve been looking for a good photo editing app, and PicsPlay…
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The Fox Sister is a supernatural folktale-thriller in progress that is based in Korean myth and history. In 1961, Cho Yun Hee was a young girl when she found her family being devoured by the nine-tailed fox spirit, a shape shifting demoness. Narrowly escaping being devoured herself, she discovered to her horror that the spirit…
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Welcome to the very first edition of Tabletop Tuesday! This humble corner of Gonna Geek will cover news highlights from the wide world of analog gaming every week. In addition to covering all the latest news and gossip for board, card, miniatures and roleplaying games I’ll also be discussing some of the terminology commonly used…
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I’ve been playing games on my iPhone since I got one, but most of the games I played were card games or similarly simple games like Peggle. A game that was released last year, Waking Mars, is more ambitious than Solitaire Golf in scope and mechanics. While I liked the concept of Waking Mars, I…
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Today’s comic is a historical dark comedy telling the story of a Prohibition speakeasy that has fallen on hard times and the tenacious and shady crew of oddballs that runs it. It is at times hilarious and silly and other times tragic and bloody, and the cast of this story are adorable and expressive cats. Fluffy cats,…
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Because I had written about Girl Genius and Dresden Codak in the previous weeks, I now have MAD SCIENCE on the brain. Specifically, mad scientists of the female variety, which brings me to the now classic daily webcomic Narbonic. Narbonic is the story of Dave Davenport, a chain-smoking recent graduate in Computer Sciences who lands a…
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When I was younger, there were three channels available to watch on TV. I grew up in rural Indiana, and I remember I was the remote and the one who had to adjust the antenna to make the signal clear. Cable came and then satellite dishes for the home, bringing more channels to homes. Now,…
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The sporadic but nigh incomparably beautiful Dresden Codak does not have much in the way of a total page count per se, but each long form page is so richly layered and detailed that I often spend additional time enjoying, devouring and analyzing each page. With a large cast and a surreal sense of humor,…
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