Evie is a small town girl at the hight of the roaring 20s and she is pos-i-tute-ly going to be a big deal someday. When she’s whisked off to go live with her uncle in New York City it’s just the thing for a modern girl wearing just the cutest cloche hat. Only Evie’s not just another flapper looking for a cute fella with access to giggle juice. She has the power to see into personal history by touching a personal item. And her power […]
“Oh yes. We’re precious. So long as we’re powerless.”
So remember when I wanted to read the “Where Are They Now” for Tenar, the young protagonist who escapes with Ged in the second book of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan? Well, it turns out, that’s what book 4 is about! Thanks Ursula K. Le Guin! From Goodreads: “Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan — she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer’s widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary […]
Say Goodbye to the Hot Pants
I know it’s blasphemous, as a comic book nerd, to ever admit that you like a character’s costume redesign. But I wholeheartedly endorse Wonder Woman’s new look in Odyssey. Gone are the unflattering, high-waisted hot pants, the heeled boots, that super-in-your-face-patriotism that makes you think she just might fart out eagles. (Which I never really understood… She’s an Amazon. So, if we have to put a nationality to her, wouldn’t it be Greek? I don’t know. I probably just caused at least two people to […]
Swashbuckling Bastards!
After two books, I think the thing I find most fun and exciting about Lynch’s stories is that he doesn’t have extra-ordinary characters. None of his characters, (aside from the bondsmagi) possess latent super-powers or even an unnatural bend towards some kind of skill. They’re just ordinary humans who get where they are by hard work and tenacity. And even when they’ve done their best, they still face very real and dangerous failure, and it’s that possible failure and its consequence that keeps me picking […]