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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
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ND Comic Review: Something is Killing the Children #21 - BOOM! Studios

Something is Killing the Children 

Issue: 21 
Writer: James Tynion IV 
Illustration: Werther Dell'Edera 
Colors: Miquel Muerto 
Lettering: Andworld Design

I had a chance to read an advanced review copy of Something is Killing the Children #21, as it is starting a new story arc I figured this would be a good time to check it out. I'd heard good things about the series and had enjoyed other comics written by James Tynion IV through his work at DC Comics. The issue opens with teenager named Gabi sitting in the back of a car in blood stained clothes. She's the sole survivor and witness to what I gather is the killing of her family by an as of yet unknow murderer. Throughout the book we see her memory flashes to her witnessing the crime while other members of the community attempt to help her out. 

I hadn't read any of the back issues, so I don't know if these are established characters or new ones introduced in this issue. However I'm already involved in this story now and I want to no more. Tynion gives the new reader enough to get hooked on the mystery and situation at hand. None of it is really dependent on knowing what happened in the 20 issues before. At least I didn't feel like it did. Dell'Edera's artwork paired with Muerto's coloring work beautifully in setting the atmosphere for this issue. Muerto gradually changes the coloring of the backgrounds as the sunsets throughout the issue. The change in illustration style during Gabi's flashbacks gives a nightmare quality to them that felt so genuine.

This new story arc succeeded in sinking its hooks into me as a reader. I hope it has the same effect on you. This issue will be on comic book store shelves and stands tomorrow March 30th, 2022. 

Until you can hold the book in your hands, check out some preview pages from the issue below.










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