☆☆☆☆☆ 5 out of 5 stars.
· a day ago
Tidal Wave characters! So many Tidal Wave girls!
I only started reading Tidal Wave after meeting them on faserip.com and I bought some download versions to try and get a picture of their characters.
First up, Tidal Wave is fresh af. They started in the 1990s and have had interrupted publishing but they are not just another indie comics company with their own pastiche version of superman, batman, wonder woman and the rest of the tired characters. Instead, Tidal Wave has Bad Girls, Good Girls, weird characters and a lot of licensed characters.
This volume is Bad Girls, and it lives up to its name. All of these characters would fit into any normal FASERIPopedia campaign or any other FASERIP game. And in a world where "woke" is a controversial concept, Tidal Wave have so many differently gendered and even "neurodivergent" characters without making it a big deal or preaching. This is really admirable and there's nothing like it anywhere in gaming, period. FASERIPopedia is to be commended for getting it right in the writeups - it's all there, but again, no preaching.
Each page is a character, and there's 40 some in this book. The first volume Funny Animals had the same number plus skateboarding rules (you read that right) but this time other than a few weapons and vehicles it's just characters all the way through. If these volumes keep coming out like this there will soon be hundreds of characters, diverse and of every kind, ready to play. And as FASERIPopedia points out, these are real characters from a "living" comic book universe not pastiches or the usual public domain re-writes.
This is a great gaming aid and the freshness... So much fresh.
- Review Contains Spoilers:
- No
- # Tags:
- Dystopia,
- Feminist,
- Nonlinear Timeline,
- Famous Author,
- Instagram-able Cover,
- Urban Setting,
- Action Packed
Recommends this product
✔ Yes
