Why wasn’t this Clint Barton in the Avengers movies? Seriously? This Clint Barton is awesome!!! Have I told you about how I have a thing for (fictional) bad boy, smartass, not fully on the right side of the law heros? Matt Fraction’s Clint Barton is exactly that. He doesn’t really consider himself one of the Avengers, and he’s no Captain America boyscout do-gooder, but he does do the right things. He does them with arrows and attitude. This run isn’t about Clint being Hawkeye the […]
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
I am a fan of Simon Van Booy’s novels and short stories, so this book in his small series pondering the philosophical questions Why We Need Love, Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter and Why We Fight intrigued me. “I believe that philosophy is a subject we have a natural gift for…….I am committed to the idea that these central questions of life are part of our everyday lives-we all possess the skill and agility to tackle them, and that by pondering them, we can experience […]
You Play A Pretty Good Fiddle, Girl, But Give The Devil His Due
I just recommended this series to another friend. The Laundry Files keep getting more intriguing and clever, mining jokes out of bureaucracy and Cthulhu. This one’s particularly captivating, as we hear a story from the perspective of Dominique O’Brien, wife of Bob and wielder of the demon-possessed bone violin. We get into superheroes and somehow more The King in Yellow. They must have had a fucking sale on Robert W. Chambers in entertainment these past years. This was a great way to finish up my […]
A Really Meaningful Message Scribbled On A Goddamn Postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge
Ugh. The Michael Bennett series. This has some of the best villains in the Patterson franchises. I’m talking nursery rhymes Alex Cross here. And this one’s particularly juicy — even when the scheme goes to cartoonish proportions. The action’s great, the mystery intense. It’s just, they steep this series in so much rah-rah Irish Catholic, rah-rah NEWYAWK. It gets painfully saccharine, and painfully…can you get jingoistic for a city? Because yeah, this one is so far up the Statue of Liberty’s ass, he can smell […]