It’s been a long time since I read the “Girl” Trilogy, but a couple of months ago I introduced a friend to the Swedish films, so I was pretty much up to speed on the story. I remember reading that Denise Mina, a terrific Scottish writer, was going to do the comic book version for Vertigo and I made a mental note to check it out. Well that was more than three years ago, but at least now I was able to get the whole run in […]
The honeymoon is over.
Shit, as they say, is getting real. Sex Criminals, Vol. 1 remains one of the funniest, sexiest, most ridiculous things I’ve ever read. That it’s a comic is only a plus. It would have been funny and sexy and touching if it was just words, but Suzie and Jon and their friends really come to life in the colorful, sometimes profane, artwork. (There are also some truly hilarious visual gags as well.) But if One Weird Trick was all about introducing Suzie and Jon and […]
To Protect and Slobber
I never intended to become a dog person, until my future wife decided she’d prefer to have a puppy in lieu of an engagement ring. And now I can’t imagine my life without my little sonofabitchbastard. So maybe I was a little more suckered in by this procedural of a damaged patrolman and a damaged Marine dog healing one another’s scars as they solve a murder. It’s a better version of James Rollins’ Tucker Wayne series, but not quite as amazing as Michael Connelly’s Harry […]
Little Halloween
Dead Man’s Song is the second book in the Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry and for the “bridge book” as I like the call the second book in a trilogy (I, and I alone I’M SURE ha ha) was balls to the wall excitement. It’s only about two weeks after the initial book takes place. We have the same cast of characters: Crow and Val bound together by love and also by a horrible event that occurred 30 years ago now known as the […]