This collection of short stories probably came from an assortment of collections — those lovely teaser tales that allow you to buffet-style several authors at once. They definitely would offer up a chance to get a feel for the Nightside. And that’s kind of the problem with the collection. While we get a nice bit of backstory or origin stories on a few characters for half the collection, the other half consists of John Taylor tales. And these feel like less fleshed out versions of […]
You Keep Using That Word I Don’t Think It Mean What You Think It Means
Alma Harper is a young music teacher. She’s working on rekindling her romance with her on again, off again boyfriend Paul and life should be pretty good. But when two amateur ghost hunters roll into town they cause Alma to attempt to remember what happened to her, to her family in Widowsfield sixteen years prior. For some reason the number 314, or pi haunts her and has some kind of control over her. She cannot remember what horrible event affected the population of Widowsfield on […]
Mother Daughter Relationships Can Be Complicated
Ten years after being convicted for the murder of her mother, Jane Jenkins is released from prison due to the mishandling of the evidence. Instead of going back to Hollywood and living in the spotlight of her notoriety, she instead assumes a new identity and disappears from the public eye in the hopes of finding out the truth behind her mother’s death. As a teen, Jane wanted nothing more than to be the next Paris Hilton and she set about Hollywood ensnaring men and being […]
Knife to the eye!!
The Goon in Rough Stuff collects the first three comics Eric Powell did featuring The Goon . This is the Rough Stuff: Milking-it-for-all-its-worth-edition, which also has some comic strips and other artwork at the end. It’s a fun look into the beginning of this five time Eisner Award winner and a bit of an origin story. The Goon is the enforcer for the gangster kingpin Labrazio. Not only does he have to take on regular thugs, but the town is overrun with zombies, who are […]