video games – Cannonball Read 17

Part cloud, part puppy all fun and (video) games

Cloud Puppy V02 Game On! by Kelly Leigh Miller

January 22, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Cloud Puppy V02 Game On! by Kelly Leigh Miller is a fun continuation of Cloud Puppy V01. I read this via an online reader copy. It is due in early March 2025. While I like Cloud Puppy (part cloud, part puppy) it can be visually overly cute and sugary. It is for for the reader who likes friendship stories and stories about gaming (including LARPING). It does lend itself to a more stereotypical “girl story” but as one of the stories included tells us, we […]

Monsters live

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon volume one in the Janus Silang Saga by Edgar Calabia Samar

April 16, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon volume one in the Janus Silang Saga by Edgar Calabia Samar, Natasha Ringor (Illustrator), and Carljoe Javier as the adaptor is more of a 2.5 than a two. There was this “niggle” as I was reading saying, “This is good, pay attention.” But another part of me was saying, “you are so missing something about this book” and therefore I cannot give it a 3 but also, there was too much I did like to just give a […]

The first review of 2024 and it’s an odd one

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales: Poster Collection by Insomniac Games

January 2, 2024 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

My first review of 2024 will be an odd one. It is a poster collection for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I know of two cartoon movies about Miles Morales and that is it. Of course, I assumed there were graphic novels, books (as I had seen some for the juvenile level), video/computer games and mentions of him in other places. However, I was unfamiliar with anything else but the cartoons. However, on my first day back to work after my New Year long weekend (or […]

CBR15 Bingo: North America

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

October 8, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR15 Bingo: North America I’ve been hearing about this book since it came out. So many people I know on the internet and whose opinions I trust have read, reviewed and absolutely loved it. So I feel bad only rating it four stars, but for all that that the story and the characters appealed to me, there was something that kept making me prioritise other things over listening more to the audio book, and I never really fully emotionally connected with this one. There are […]

A mix of comics, video games, tabletop games, adventure cartoons

Digital Lizards of Doom Vol. 1 Digital Lizards of Doom by Gabriel Valentin

June 12, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Digital Lizards of Doom Vol. 1 Digital Lizards of Doom by Gabriel Valentin feels as the age aimed for is ages eight and up, but there are several points that might not be good for the sensitive reader. I would recommend it for at least aged 10 and up, who like video games, offbeat humor, oddities, and not easily disturbed by fantasy action. It feels a bit stereotypically “boy driven,” but a few female characters come into things (though one is a villain, one might […]

Pinball’s lineage

Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball by Jon Chad

March 7, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Genre The history of pinball and video games is just the start of Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball by Jon Chad. We get a little history of the country, and we get to see how things have not really changed on one hand (pinball/video games will corrupt our children! Lead them to a life of crime! It is just luck no skill!) and how they have changed (from the tabletop games to our known look for pinball machines, from France […]

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