Colin resigned today. I find this pretty disappointing. I feel that he hasn’t really given our endeavour a chance. Having lost conviction he now contents himself with returning to a style of play he found unfulfilling. I wish him luck, though regretably I don’t believe the path he has taken will satisfy him.
Seeing as I quite enjoyed this episode I’ve started a write-up. A lot of it’s still in note form but it gives some of the flavour of what happened.
We’ve now played four sessions of City of Darkness but as yet it’s failed to take off. I’m not sure why exactly. There’s nothing really wrong with the game. Glyn has put a lot of work into it and strives to provide story elements to capture our imagination but still Colin and I aren’t that engaged in what’s happening.
My final tribute to awesome comic-book series that have influenced me (well for the time being anyway) is to Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. Hellboy is a large blood-red-skinned demon with a tail, horns and a large stone right-hand whose adventures Mignola has chronicled in a series of comic-book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Planetary is a twenty-seven issue comic book series created and written by Warren Ellis, illustrated by John Cassaday, coloured by Laura Martin and published by Wildstorm, a subsidiary of DC Comics. It follows the activities of a shadowy group of parahumans who bill themselves as ‘Archaeologists of the Impossible’ and are dedicated to unravelling the secret history behind the 20th century.
Another comic-book limited-series I would highly recommend is Alan Moore‘s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by the man himself, illustrated by Kevin O’Neill and published by America’s Best Comics.
Note: This bears only marginal similarities to the film of the same name.
Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic-book series written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and originally published by DC Comics. It’s a classic and it remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy work.
League of Imaginary Heroes 