Hideaki Anno, of Studio Gainax, was facing disillusionment with his fanbase following his work on Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water when hedecided to create a savage deconstruction of the popular Giant Mecha genre in 1995.
Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the immensely popular Discworld series and Officer of the Order of the British Empire, died on March 12 at the age of 66, of complications arising from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Sometimes you just want to take out your friends and steal their stuff. Luckily, there’s a game for that.
From Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9 and Elysium, comes Chappie, the story of the world’s first sentient artificial intelligence robot and the implications and misfortunes of his life.
I wasn’t expecting much from Injustice: Gods Among Us, mostly due to the game—which, although good, is little more than a Mortal Kombat clone. Well, I’m happy to report I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Injustice has action, tragedy, romance—everything you could ever want from a totally addicting comic series
Every year, the Douglas College creative writing department releases the newest edition of the student anthology Pearls. Filled with students’ non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and scripts, each edition offers something new that represents the variety of creative writing at the college. This year, Pearls 34 will be released on March 27 at the anthology’s launch event, featuring readings from eight of the book’s contributors.
Sam Simon, 59, a prolific television producer, director, writer, philanthropist, and animal rights activist, passed away on March 8, after a three-year battle with cancer. He was diagnosed as terminally ill in 2012 and given three to six months to live. He proved those estimates wrong and showed the world how much one person can truly give back to society.
I’ve always had a soft spot for literature that captures life through the eyes of a child, because children are weird. Childhood is a framework that offers so many opportunities—life to a child is simultaneously light, surreal, frightening, and important in ways that adults so easily forget.
The gulf between script and performance is invariably wide, and seeing something played before your eyes is very different than just reading about it. Like the circus, perhaps you have to experience it in order to fully appreciate it.
You may be asking yourself why I would be reviewing the third book in a series. Well, the answer is it’s in honour of illustrator Stephen Sadowski, who is coming to Vancouver Fan Expo in April, and who didn’t join the project until the third volume. Unfortunately, it’s probably the worst of the series.
