I may have shot myself in the foot with this one by reading out of order, and then again, maybe I didn’t. Confusingly, Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More is not actually the first volume of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run with Captain Marvel. This one is. And it’s in this volume that Carol Danvers, previously Ms. Marvel, swaps out her black leotard and thigh-highs for a sensible and badass red and blue costume and a blonde mohawk-type thing that sticks out of her […]
Something. Happened.
Oh, Uncle Stevie! Whenever I fall into one of your books, it feels like home. No, I don’t mean the scary-ass places you take me, but your voice, your humanity. It’s true, you had me cowering under the covers with a flashlight when I read Carrie for the first time back in the 70’s and noticed little else than the “high school really DOES suck” interwoven with the horror. You sucked me in with a premise I didn’t think I’d be interested in (11/22/63), mesmerized […]
Deputy U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens goes to Italy
Miami bookie Harry Arno has lived a relatively good life. As a mid level man in Jimmie Cap’s criminal operation he’s managed to skim a sizable bank account’s worth of excess off the top and is now planning to retire from the game with his lovely 25 years younger girlfriend, Joyce. Unfortunately, Harry put off his retirement a little too long and is now the unwitting pawn in an FBI sting targeting Jimmie Cap. The feds set up Harry for a bogus theft, and now […]
Move over, Dear Abby
My job has the super-fun combination of a lot of downtime and ridiculously strict internet blockages (no Pajiba – sob!). Newspaper sites are almost always allowed, but I try to avoid reality whenever possible, so I end up reading a lot of advice columns (the Carolyn Hax archives go on for eons). I had managed to miss Dear Sugar, though, until a friend sent me a copy of her book. Rather than a prim Dear Prudence approach of handing down advice from on high, Dear Sugar […]