Like the review mentions, this isn't always the case with the ones that were featured in the last edition, but a lot of them them did devolve down to that and the stories about them really don't ring as interesting as ones for Crusade, Total Recall or the Howard Hughes biopic race.

The one I have is labeled as the Updated and Expanded edition, released in 2008.

Wasn't that pretty much what The Incal turned out to be, more or less?

Yeah, there's a whole chapter dedicated to the development of Dune, in particular to the consortium of artists and idealists that Jodorowsky had gathered to figure out how to bring Dune to the screen. The book comes to the conclusion that the reason it ended up being killed was because the US distributors weren't…

There's far less combat forced on you than you might expect. Playing the game with the combat set to Hard makes it abundantly clear that no one wants you be fighting all that much and it's rare that enemies are in your way enough to impede progress. It's not even a focus until the last level in the game, by which…

This sums up every original work that Mark Millar has done in the past decade.

I would imagine that this is a situation where Sony's hands were more or less tied. The 10% discount was about as good as I think anyone could have expected with the chokehold that retail still has over console and handheld gaming platforms.

No, but that's an easy mistake to make since Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama also does the art for the Dragon Quest series.