Warhammer 40K
I’m sure by this point Mayren will explode, not only have i posted yet again, it’s about one of her favourite fantasies.
I recently started reading the Warhammer 40,000 Novels from the Black Library authors (alongside my new vast Marvel collection, more on that later). My main reading material is the 3 novel Horus Heresy. Those of you interested in sci-fi/fiction novels will really WANT to get into this series, i know i did.
I found the series by playing the recent games made by THQ, namely Dawn of War and Black Crusade, but the storyline intrigued me much more. I got a few codices (rule books for each faction, the series is also a tabletop game) and they all had history and reading material to offer, and a lot of it too.
The series is as good, or even better than Warcraft if you could believe it. And for those of you not wanting a future set epic, the original Warhammer is also available.
Also, i recently started reading digitized versions of the Marvel series of comics all the way back from 1964 (when the release of the Marvel Age of comics started). I didn’t realised how much the heroes intermingled, i thought it was only a recent occurence of the 90s that they all started working together and the Civil War brought them closer. I have a lot of reading to do these days. By my calculation, even reaching the 90s comics will take me 2 years of daily reading of 15 comics, i barely manage 9. It’s made easier by my Samsung monitor, which is a hefty 22″ and rotates 90 degrees allowing me to fit an entire page properly into it, great for relaxing back and reading.
More posts soon 
i’ve never read the novels, but i used to love playing with all the little warhammer models back a good 10-15 years ago. you can paint them and make scenery and a bunch of things… lovely stuff, check em out.
ammaro
February 3, 2008
mkay . it took me forever to catch this post because i’m lookin in your archives.
It’s nice that you are back a little bit. We miss you.
#2 Warhammer is cool but not THAT cool.
I like painting the models but I don’t like the universe it’s played in or the novels. I think they suck. They have a new RPG out called “Dark Heresy” too and I’m not going to play it.
So I play the models for the strategic fun of it and the excuse to buy and paint models.
Mayren
June 10, 2008
I’d have to say i’d rather build a huge tabletop setting and battle it out than read a few books, but i really can’t afford to get into it.
blayde
June 11, 2008