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Tag: Marvel

@NuketownSF: More Zinequest 3, X of Swords, Wanda Vision, FATE Condensed

February 22, 2021 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Focus, NuketownSF Recap

A recap of NuketownSF’s tweets for the week of February 15, 2021. ZINEQUEST | HINTERLAND: PEOPLES AND PERILS – As someone running a hexcrawl, this zine – which focuses on wilderness exploration – is highly appealing. It features 19 random encounters[…]

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@NuketownSF: Spider-man Noir, Thrawn, Tenet, X-Men, Zombies!

January 23, 2021 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, NuketownSF Recap

A recap of NuketownSF’s tweets for the week of January 17, 2021. COMICS & COFFEE | Spider-man Noir (2008) – It’s 1933 and crime bosses rule New York City as the Great Depression rages. A hero emerges from the shadows in the[…]

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The X-men step through an otherworldly portal.

Top of the Pile: X-Men Resurgence

January 31, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

The X-Men are back. After years of being sidelined in the Marvel comic book universe, the X-Men have returned to their rightful prominence. Heralded by the twin six-issue series House of X and Powers of X, the X-Pantheon is back with a[…]

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A bearded man gestures his hands toward the viewer, casting green arcane energy as he does so.

Blogworthy: 5e Skill Challenges, Marvel Multiverse, Fey Realms of Greyhawk, Nuclear Rockets

October 16, 2019 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy

Skill challenges were one of the few things that everyone in my gaming group liked about Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. Thought it had its issues in its initial iteration, Star Wars: Saga Edition further refined the idea, and we used it to[…]

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Captain America, in a dark blue uniform, is in the center of the photo while Nick Fury appears to the left and Black Widow to the right.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Soundtrack

November 21, 2017 Ken Newquist Music & Audio, Music and Audio Reviews, Music Reviews

Captain America: The Winter Soldier tops two of my personal lists: best Marvel movie and best Marvel soundtrack. The movie works because it’s a tight, expertly crafted super-spy movie with a ton of heart and great action. The soundtrack works because it’s constantly carrying the[…]

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A black and white photo of the Guardians of the Galaxy standing against a wall.

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

June 16, 2017 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV, Movies & TV Reviews

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 is an unapologetic comic book movie that embraces the bright colors, superhero logic, and heart-on-your-sleeve emotions of the best of Marvel’s vintage titles from the 1970s and 80s The first movie felt more like[…]

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Myriad superheroes battle in space.

Top of the Pile: Battleworld!

September 21, 2016 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

The Marvel comic book multiverse collapsed in upon itself in Summer 2015. As the various worlds ended, a new one was forged by its all-powerful god, Doctor Doom. This new world — Battleworld — drove a summer’s worth of of[…]

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The 6 cast members of Season 1 stand in front the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo. The logo is split by a bright yellow/orange flame.

Why You Should Be Watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

April 15, 2014 Ken Newquist Movies & TV, Television Reviews

There are two reasons why you should be watching Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: It ties directly into Captain America: The Winter Soldier and it got good. Really good.

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A massive melee of X-Men superheroes.

Top of the Pile: Revising the Weekly Comic Pull

September 7, 2013 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

My biggest problem as a fortysomething comic book collector is that I don’t have time to read the damn books. You’d think I would — after all, these aren’t novels — yet I repeatedly find myself with a six-month backlog of comics.

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Make Mine Marvel: Marvel RPG Web Sites

April 1, 2012 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games

The new Marvel Heroic Basic RPG by Margaret Weis Productions is generating a good degree of buzz in RPG circles. A number of folks I follow on Twitter have been talking about it, and it’s been consistently hitting the top[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

Radiating from Easton, Pa.

Recent Posts

  • NuketownSF: ZineQuest updates, Field Guid to Memory, Mystic Mazes, Heroes at Home April 9, 2021
  • Trail to Philmont – January/February 2021 April 6, 2021
  • Geek Archeology: World Space Modeling Championships 1980 Patch April 4, 2021
  • Looking back on ZineQuest 3 March 30, 2021
  • RPO Replay: Tomb of Horrors March 18, 2021

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