Figured Action is where I write about games, comics, action figures, and the culture that gathers around them.
I am interested in the object and the system: how a game teaches us to move through its world, how a comic controls time on a page, how an action figure turns design and memory into something that fits on a shelf.
What you’ll find
- Games — reviews, criticism, play notes, and the systems beneath them.
- Comics — individual issues, longer runs, creators, adaptations, and the strange machinery of sequential art.
- Figures — action figures, collecting, photography, articulation, design, and shelf life.
- Geekery — books, film, television, toys, and anything interesting enough to resist a tidy category.
About A. D. Bowen
I am a writer, artist, English teacher, lifelong player, comics reader, and collector. Figured Action gives the enthusiast and the critic permission to occupy the same room.
The point is not to keep score. It is to look closely at the things we enjoy and ask what makes them work, what they reveal, and why some of them refuse to leave us alone.
