The frequently goofy and energetic direction of The Elusive Samurai belies a dark story: a fictional spin on the life of the real samurai Tokiyuki Hōjō, whose family and clan is massacred by the ...

Leviathan, an adaptation of the novel from writer Scott Westerfeld and illustrator Keith Thompson, is a 20th-century alt-history that begins with Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s son Aleksandar fleeing in ...