David Ewalt

Image: Games Workshop (Getty Images)Sure, they’ve said it’s a 40K show. But what if... it was a 30K show instead?The time period of the Horus Heresy—a massive civil war among the chapters of the Space Marines when the titular Horus, the God-Emperor’s most beloved son, is corrupted by the evils of Chaos—is a vast one, ripe for storytelling, and studios love an origin story.But why Sanguinius instead of Horus? The leader of the Blood Angels Space Marines, Sanguinius is known for two things: having giant angel wings, and…

Probably the game that I ammost hyped to receive in physical form, DIE RPG by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans is a meta-textual love letter to gaming, storytelling, and their own comic creation. It’s a game that is built to destroy you, and in the two sessions I’ve played with my friends it has broken my heart not less than five times. It combines a very clever premise with the ability to do pretty much anything you want, but the consequences, the final decision, always looms large in the minds of you and your…

Image: Marvel StudiosBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever has finally arrived, and to say that Marvel’s latest—the sequel to 2018’s smash hit Black Panther, which won three Oscars—at was highly, highly anticipated is putting it rather mildly. io9’s Germain Lussier and Cheryl Eddy and Gizmodo’s David Ewalt sat down to discuss the MCU’s return to Wakanda, the movie’s new and familiar characters, and how it dealt with the loss of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman.Image: Marvel StudiosDavid Ewalt: So I literally just got back…

Screenshot: HasbroThe arrival of Hasbro’s “Selfie Series” figures at last weekend’s Pulse Con finally offers people (in the U.S., at least) the chance to get their own little lifelike action figure, lifelike so long as you dream of being one of several fine Hasbro-affiliated licenses already. But how does the tech hold up? Well, the app at least makes things interesting.While what we’ve seen of Hasbro’s proposed end-results for the Selfie Series look pretty neat, the problem right now is that the creative process that…

Outer Banks 2 | Official Teaser | NetflixAt the beginning of a global pandemic, Netflix dropped a gem: Outer Banks. The teen adventure drama tells the story of a young, working class man named John B whose father goes missing while looking for treasure off the coast ofNorth Carolina. John B then sets off in his father’s footsteps to find him and the treasure along with his friends. There’s a turf war between the rich kids and poor kids, family drama, and melodramatic romance, but somehow it manages to stick the…