Wayhaught, and Earpers in general, are pretty awesome. What’s equally awesome is that the cast, showrunner, and writers are as vital a part of the fandom as the fans themselves. They’re pretty responsive on social media, hang out with fans at cons and just as invested in the characters as fans are

ODY-C is pretty good so far. If you don’t typically get physical copies of your comics, it would be worth it to track down #1 of this series for the massive gatefold infodump/map

what Malazan books did you read? I don't recall any characters that fit your vivid description. And Erikson does speak to the human condition in his books, quite powerfully so, if a bit long-winded from time to time

Amen, brother!

Steven Erikson's Malazan series is, amongst many other things, a master class of worldbuilding. It requires some work on your part to make all the connections, but the details are there, threaded throughout the books in small pieces that seem irrelevant at first but work to form a more complete picture later on.…

Here's an example: Dragnipur, Anomander Rake's sword from the Malazan series. Upon killing someone, the victim is transported to another dimension, where they are then chained to a wagon which houses the portal to another realm; this realm is also a source of magical power. These victims are forced to pull the wagon…

From Tavore Paran, in book seven of the Malazan series, Reaper's Gale. Delivered to her army the same night they had been outlawed by the empire they served

Is that a spiraling confection of Pizza the Hutt's body?

My childhood was pretty damn awesome with Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, Voltron, Robotech, and Starblazers. I was 15 by the time Power Rangers came out and all's I saw was a shit show with terrible actors, terrible fx, and terrible stories. However cheesy the cartoons I watched as a kid were, they were never as…

There is nothing good about Power Rangers, not even in a 'so bad it's good' way

While this isn't the very first thing that happens, this is what is bearing down on you by ~pg50 (US paperback) in book one of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, when you're still trying to figure out what the hell you've gotten yourself into

I'm up to about five feet, five inches, and about to play Wildstar

DJ Code, the head of my current favorite drum and bass label, Subtle Audio, playing a mix on jungletrain the other night

Collected editions of Greek mythology, I guess, or the novelization of the Star Wars movies

Malazan Book of the Fallen is most definitely a landmark of the genre

Malazan Book of the Fallen-as gruesome as it is sometimes, it is also a study in compassion, empathizing with others, the dangers of rigid, unyielding beliefs-religious or otherwise-, and many others that escape me at the moment

An interesting discussion on just this topic, with the added bonus of author input:

Completely understandable, I think I felt the same way about that comment when I started the series. And yes, some of the names are amusing, to say the least: Blend, Picker, Antsy, Bent, Roach, Touchy, Breathless, Skulldeath, and many more

Quick Ben is very cool :)

Neither sounds like a bad idea. A second time around with book 1 might even be enjoyable