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Marvel Multiverse Table Top Role-Playing Game - Summer 2023

  A new Marvel TTRPG is heading our way for Summer 2023. I have some really fond memories of the Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying game put out by TSR in the 1980's. It was right along side Dungeons & Dragons as one of my introductory games to ttrpgs. This new game looks to be based purely on a six-sided dice system. The playtest rulebook for the game is available now for anyone who wants to run an early version of the game through its paces before the finalized version comes out next year. I'll admit I'm curious enough make that purchase myself. Here is the official press release from Marvel:  MARVEL LAUNCHING CORE RULEBOOK FOR NEW TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING GAME IN SUMMER 2023   ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: CORE RULEBOOK’ AVAILABLE JUNE 2023   FOLLOWED BY ‘MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: THE CATACLYSM OF KANG’ AVAILABLE JULY 2023     Use the D616 game system to embody your favorite Super Heroes and Super Villains!     New York, NY— August 22, 2022 –  New adventu

Free Dracula Web Comic Series Online Now from BOOM! Studios



Just in time for Halloween, BOOM! Studios is offering up a spooky gift to readers. BOOM is bringing the printed Dracula: The Company of Monsters series to the web in a serialized format, http://www.draculacomics.com/, viewable free of charge. Initially daily updates will serialize the previously printed work, and after that new content will also be presented in addition to commentary by series contributors. The original series was a created by Kurt Busiek, written by Daryl Gregory and art provided by Scott Godlewski and Damian Couciero. 11 pages of the web comic launched yesterday, Monday Oct. 24 and content will be added daily from here on out, including weekends.

The set up of the website is great. I'm becoming a digital comic convert, the colors are always more vibrant it seems. Since comics are more often then not, created digitally I think these digital pages better convey the final piece that the creators wanted to achieve. Below the comic book page, BOOM! includes a transcript for the illustrated page above. There is also a blog beneath the transcript that relates to the creators of the series, and their interactions. This is really a fun way to read a story, plus the navigation makes it easy enough to flip around the book, either with the arrow navigations above the page, or the thumbnail pages beneath the page. To kick this format offering off with a series as great as Dracula: The Company of Monsters is an incredible treat.

I'm hoping this is successful in drawing attention to this book and these creators, so that other series receive the same treatment.




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