Sean Murphy is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more. Punk Rock Jesus is an absorbing read. Set in the not-too-distant future, an American media corporation comes up with the idea for a new reality show: J2, the second coming of Christ. As in, we’ve isolated DNA from the Shroud of Turin and we’re going to make a Jesus clone, carried to full term by a virgin, then raised to be Our True Lord and Savior, and streamed LIVE!!! This cunning […]
Live Until You Die
You told me, once, to just remember to breathe. As long as you can do that, you’re doing something Good, you said. Getting rid of the old, and letting in the new. And, therefore, moving forward. Making progress. That’s all you have to do to move forward, sometimes, you said, just breathe. Have you ever had a friend so close that you could finish each other’s sentences? How about so close you could finish each other’s lives? Etta and Otto and Russell and James is […]
Awk-WORD
As a way huger Harry Potter fan that I even considered, and as someone who sat through the Twilight Fan Fiction panel one SDCC ago — before E.L. James boringed up sex — it was interesting to see Rowell tackle fan-fic. This time through, her characters were less interesting for me. I just didn’t give a damn if Cath fell in love, I didn’t feel that heartache I did for Eleanor & Park, and everything felt forced quirky. However, I’m curious, because Rowell’s latest release […]
Lumberjacking Off
While I really dug the John Cleaver trilogy, I was kind of stunned to discover that Wells decided to do another book. There was plenty story left to tell, but it went from a stark, haunting coming-of-age serial killer story to a weirdly Dexterous procedural. It’s not bad, but it didn’t kick my ass like the first three books. But it’s not becoming the goddamn papertowel man, up yours like the Dexter finale.