Justin Munday

Quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever gotten to announce. A new prestige hardcover collection of a freakin' dinosaur comic from one of the best in the business?? Come on, man.

Jackals in the Courtyard’s Favorite Reads in 2025 A look at some of my favorite books I checked out over the last year. Over the last decade or so, most of my reading has been has been almost exclusively comic books and graphic novels. I really go…

Back again with one more list from 2025 and it's something a little different than what I usually post up at Jackals: My favorite things I read last year. Thanks for reading!
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Dude talks like a poorly translated Kojima villain.

Jackals in the Courtyard’s Favorites in Film & TV 2025 A quick look at the coolest things I watched during the past year – not *just* from this year though. The two mediums of art I spend the most time with are the written & drawn word and th…

Back once again with my favorites in Film & TV that I saw in 2025. This one's more of a "New to Me" list instead of a ranking of best new releases. There's a movie in here from 70 years ago. Thanks for reading!

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The Jackals in the Courtyard Top 5 Games of 2025 My personal best of list for games I played in 2025 2025 has been considered yet another banner year for game releases. From massive RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance II to hugely awaited sequels…

Happy New Year all. It's that time once again, a look back at my favorite things from last year. Here's my Top 5 games of 2025. More stuff coming throughout the week. Thanks for reading!

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This piece of Toriyama Dragon Quest art in the last @gameinformer.com issue damn near brought a tear to my eye.

Doing the Obi-Wan "you were the chosen one" monologue at my BG3 desktop icon right now.
Jfc man, just let your talented people do their thing. Brainstorm on paper, draw on a whiteboard, all that cool shit.

2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...

Exciting news! Thanks to the repeated generosity of @iamdavidbrothers.com, we are adding TWO more mini grants to this year's round!

Please make sure to submit your applications by the end of the month.

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I'll happily get excited about cool game announcements. Give me what's effectively Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 directed by the guy who directed the very games I basically built my taste on???? Straight to tears.

I've been reading Gou Tanabe's Lovecraft adaptations since his take on At the Mountains of Madness was released. This is the first time I've gotten to review one of his books. What a treat it was.
An absolute must for cosmic horror fans.

Absolutely did not see the FGC getting more hyped for an out of nowhere Avatar the Last Airbender Fighting game than a Marvel tag fighter, but that's pretty cool.
Avatar Legends looks cool as hell and I hope Tokon rules, keeping my opinions on hold til, you know, the games are actually out.

“There are Books!?” – The Wide World of Media Tie-In Novels A look into an entire subset of the reading world stays so popular, and some personal picks from the Jackals library. In the world of genre fiction, one of the main objectives of a writer is to imm…

New piece up. I've always thought media tie-in books were interesting - so much so that I decided to write about them. Thanks for reading!

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This is (and pardon my french) fucking outstanding news. It will be so amazing to see GI on shelves at places I regularly go - and even funnier to see them sold by the very company that gave up on them. Way to go, guys.

My review of Predator: Badlands is up over at Monkeys Fighting Robots. It's the kind of movie lore nerds like me have been wanting for decades.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Review: OUR SOOT STAINED HEART #1 - Steampunk Holiday From writer Joni Hagg and co-author & artist Stipan Morian (20th Century Men) comes a grimy, Dickensian take on a holiday story with Our Soot Stained He ...

Our Soot Stained Heart is of the most impeccably crafted comics I've ever read. It was actually a difficult comic to review purely on the basis that it felt like it was operating on a different playing field than most comics I've read in recent years.
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I loved graduating from college to watch the industry I tried to get in to get ripped apart and turned into insultingly low-pay freelance gigs. All love and respect to the indie sites that are still putting in the good work partially just out of spite.

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike

And thank you for what you do!

Wanted to take a moment to talk about how much I love this podcast. I've learned so much about the games medium from Jared and his guests and it's one of the things that pushed me to dip my toes in writing about video games. Beyond happy that this series is back and can't recommend it enough.

Review: CAPTAIN HENRY AND THE GRAVEYARD OF TIME #1 – Steampunk Ghostbusters From comics legend Mike Mignola and creator Bruce Zick (The Mighty Thor, Primordial) comes a new adventure in the paranormal Curious Objects universe with Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time #1. Featuring lettering from Clem Robins, this opening issue is exactly the sort of jaunt you’d expect and want from Mignola and his collaborators. With […]

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Disco Elysium

Review: OUT OF ALCATRAZ – No More Road From writer Christopher Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire, Plastic Man No More!) and artist Tyler Crook (The Lonesome Hunters, Harrow County) comes a desperate yet hopeful take on one of le last century’s greatest mysteries in Out Of Alcatraz. Now collected in a complete hardcover from Oni Press, Out of Alcatraz is a tense, focused tale inspired by […]

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The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

People Expendable: The Lessons of the Alien franchise Why Alien is such a “Perfect Organism” of thematically rich sci-fi horror. The marriage of science fiction and horror began as we know it with Ridley Scott’s Alien. A fusion of Lo…

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