Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 142 Pages There are a few things that will guarantee that I pick up a book, for a further inspection, and… A number of those things are on the cover of this book :o) I literally had no choice in the matter, I had to pick the book and take a look. The blurb pretty much sold it to me… A home to reavers and rakes, sorcerers and slayers, undead kings and undying things – expanding a page at a time in the stories added by its authors. In the once lands, a lineage of sorcerous wayfinders work to keep godlike monstrosities locked behind the crumbling walls of cursed cities, by allowing the vengeful ghosts of forest gods to inhabit their living flesh. In the wild wastes, tribes of cannibal huntresses fight to balance the old ways and new in a struggle to keep their culture alive by trading in death. In the sprawling city of Khyber, ambitions dance on sword edges while clans of thieves and reavers clutch at power. Welcome to… Shared World. Yep, I was sold. ‘Shared World’ came ...

I've smoked a bit of weed, in my time, but not for a long time and for very good reason. You see, my tolerance, for the stuff, is very much 'no tolerance at all' and I inevitably end up falling asleep in all sorts of weird places. It's not cool :o) Now I'm in my fifties, it has got worse (if you can believe it)... One of my neighbour's was smoking, yesterday, and just the smell was enough to send me to sleep and then wake up in the mood for a burger. So, off I went to Greenwich for a McDonald's and while I was there, did a little book browsing at the same time. Of course I did ;o) The pickings were slim but some determined foraging turned up the following... I told you it was 'slim pickings' but hopefully, it's a case of quality over quantity ;o) I had never heard of 'Zombies and Power Tools' but with a title like that, I was never going to pass up the opportunity of a read. You wouldn't either ;o) My 'poor old' eyes struggled...

I’ve been going a little ‘stir crazy’, these last few days, so yesterday afternoon, I took myself into town for a slice of pizza (spicy chicken, in case you were wondering) and a visit to Forbidden Planet to pick up a couple of comics. I say ‘a couple’ but I came out with three comics, I think that was remarkably restrained of me. One series ends, another begins and, ‘Conan the Barbarian’ just keeps rolling along… Just the way I like it :o) ‘Event Horizon: Inferno’ #5 – Ward, Carey, Honchar (ID Dark) There weren’t many surprises here, ok any surprises, but #5 rounds ‘Event Horizon: Inferno’ off in decent style with a strong vein of ‘be careful what you wish for’ vs ‘man really is unaware of his true standing in the universe’. Yep, I’m looking at you Durante… You were a little too villainish but at the same time, it somehow made the final outcome a little more sweet ;o) I’m half and half over where Starck’s arc (see what I did there?) ends up, as I think she deserved a little more, but...

(Blogger seems to have something against posting images at the moment so apologies for the 'wall of text'...) Thanks for bearing with me yesterday, I wouldn’t say that I got everything done (that I needed to) but it helped to park the blog, for a day, and give myself a little breathing space. I ended up giving myself the evening off and spent a little time with a couple of comic books that I really should have read a lot sooner. Better late than never though ;o) Let me tell you about them… ‘Mechanismo: Machine Law’ – Wagner, McCrea, Macneill (Rebellion) Page Count: 96 Pages Still understaffed from the Day of Chaos, the Justice Department prepares once more to trial a radical solution: the Mark-8 RV Mechanismo Unit. Responsive, resilient, empathetic and expendable; the upgraded robot Judges supposedly have none of the deadly flaws of previous models. Judge Dredd has never hidden his feelings on the machines, but is ordered to put aside his prejudices and conduct an assessment wi...

Today just got really busy... Job hunting, various phone calls and now I need to try and get my daughters' phone fixed. Nothing major, just loads to get done so I'm going to go and do that. I should be back tomorrow though :o) While I'm doing that, feel free to have a read, there's loads here to look at ;o) And do me a favour? If you're reading this and you're not a bot, leave a comment? I'm trying to establish a 'real person to bot' visitor ratio and I don't think bots can leave comments... Can they... ? ;o)

  Page Count: 240 Pages (As per the ‘Word Bearers Omnibus Edition) For ‘Dark Apostle’ and ‘Dark Disciple’ , I showed off the original cover art but with ‘Dark Creed’, I thought I’d go with the omnibus cover art because, well… Look at it :o) I’m assuming that’s Marduk on the cover but either way, have you ever seen a spikier Traitor Astartes? Nope, me neither. And it looks like Pinhead the Cenobite very kindly allowed our Word Bearer to pinch a few hooks and chains, just to round off the affect. That was nice of him :o) I’ve always liked the way that Warhammer 40K can be completely over the top and take itself seriously, all at the same time, and that’s exactly what we have here. But, anyway… I’ve been in and out of this trilogy, over the last few weeks, and last night felt like the right moment to finally finish it off. Let me tell you about it… :o) Dark Apostle Marduk faces challenges from within his own Legion as he wages war with the White Consuls. Harnessing the power of the N...