Steven Erikson’s Crippled God, David Lapham’s Mongrel and Ninjak at Dungeon Manual

Just a quick pointer to some low-budget and boring blogging I’m doing at Dungeon Manual. Kicked it off with three posts, one the first in a series of thoughts I had after reading Steven Erikson’s The Crippled God concluding chapter of his sweet “Malazan Book of the Fallen” cycle. It’s largely a several page review review that I’ve broken down into segments. I’m calling the whole thing Crippled God Shank, and kicked it off with Crippled God Shank – Kick the Cratchit.

I then hit the comic book angle, going with two of my favorite lines of all time in DEFIANT and VALIANT. First, in Lapham’s lost MONGREL still DEFIANT, I examine a lost character from Eisner Award winning comic writer/artist David Lapham, taking a look at the promo lithograph he did for DEFIANT Comics of the character Mongrel, our first and perhaps last look at the character.

Finally, I wrote up a piece regarding the first appearance of VALIANT comics’ Ninjak. Titled NINJAK to the VALIANT gut, I talk about the character who would go on to ship half a million copies of his own title (just first issue) and how creative VALIANT was in introducing some of their characters, making it fun for reader and speculator alike.

Next up I have more Steven Erikson/Malazan talk, Jim Butcher’s Ghost Story, George R.R. Martin’s Darkstar from “A Song of Ice and Fire”,  and some tin. Yes, tin! Plus some original art I’ve copped recently.