Guts the Black Swordsman and his companions brave the open sea, hoping to reach Puck's homeland, Elfhelm, and its powerful elven king, who might be able to restore the sanity of Guts' former lover, Casca. But seeking out a sanctuary for Casca means that Guts must postpone his hunt for his ex-friend and leader, Griffith, who has been reborn as a demon lord hell-bent on conquest. The winds of change blow fast and hard across the war-torn lands of the Holy See, and if Guts waits too long to exact his vengeance, Griffith might attain his murderous goals before Guts can return to Midland to stop him!

Features Tank girl, the beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she 'bumps' her way through an utterly bizarre escapade. Join everybody's favorite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she 'bumps' her way through another utterly bizarre escapade. And this time she's pregnant...yes, pregnant! How will our manic heroine cope with looming motherhood? The threat of rampaging hormones, the spectre of varicose veins? What will the baby look like, if it's Booga's? And what exactly does this all have to do with the followers of the Blood God Baal? Add to that the small matter of impending Armageddon (thanks to a meteorite headed straight for Earth!) and it's no wonder this book was once billed as the final slice of Tank Girl's lunatic adventures.

The 34th album chronicling the much-loved adventures of Asterix and friends. A collection of 12 new stories - all linked by the theme of Asterix's anniversary celebration.

Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other playable media. Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story-something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the different ways in which these two elements work together in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board games, card games, electronic literature, political simulations, locative media, massively multiplayer games, and other forms that invite and structure play. Second Person-so called because in these games and playable media it is you who plays the roles, you for whom the story is being told-first considers tabletop games ranging from Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs with an explicit social component to Kim Newman's Choose Your Own Adventure-style novel Life's Lottery and its more traditional author-reader interaction. Contributors then examine computer-based playable structures that are designed for solo interaction-for the singular you -including the mainstream hit Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the genre-defining independent production Facade. Finally, contributors look at the intersection of the social spaces of play and the real world, considering, among other topics, the virtual communities of such Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as World of Warcraft and the political uses of digital gaming and role-playing techniques (as in The Howard Dean for Iowa Game, the first U.S. presidential campaign game). In engaging essays that range in tone from the informal to the technical, these writers offer a variety of approaches for the examination of an emerging field that includes works as diverse as George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series and the classic Infocom game Planetfall. Appendixes contain three fully-playable tabletop RPGs that demonstrate some of the variations possible in the form.