Fair warning, all. Over the next week or so (I can’t imagine it’s going to take me that much longer), I aim to read ALL the comic book trades and/or graphic novels that the husband and I own, and that I haven’t gotten round to reading. Actually, in all honesty, it’s not all of them, we have a ton of Hellblazer and Jack Kirby comics and all manner of things my husband owns that I have little to NO interest in, but there are 18 books […]
Sad, but very interesting
So we start out in the dark of a basement. There’s a little boy of 10, and he’s chasing the only crack of sunlight he can see. All he knows is the darkness. He has a sister who’s pregnant (we don’t know who the father of the baby is), a brother (he’s not quite right), a father (he seems a lot angrier than he needs to be), a mother (she’s fine), and a blind grandmother. Everyone acts super weird, and there’s no way out from […]
A promising new fantasy series (without a single white character!)
3.5 stars Resorting to the blurb for a plot summary, because I need to get my reviews up to date, and trying to come up with my own synopsis takes too long: The Crescent Moon Kingdoms are at a boiling point. A struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious Falcon Prince is reaching its climax. In the midst of this brewing rebellion, a series of brutal supernatural murders strike at the heart of the Kingdoms. Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, three score and more years old, […]
Using Uncertainty to Create a Sense of Unease and Eeriness
“It came from the woods. Most strange things do.” You know how horror movies can be super effective when they create a sense of unease just by making you know that something is not quite right? But you can’t determine what that thing that’s not right is, and therefore you have no idea what to do or how to fix the situation? How the idea of a monster is almost scarier than when you actually see what it is, because of the way your imagination […]