Our narrator, Jean, is startled out of a light doze by a persistent ringing. It takes some time to it to register that it is his phone. It has been so long since it had rung and he had ceased actually wanting it to ring some time before that. The man on the line identifies himself as Gilles Ottolini and says that he has come into possession of Jean’s address book and he wants to return it. Jean thinks that he must of lost it […]
Oh crap! Live ones!!
Ah, Mike Mignola, how I love that dude’s work. It goes back a zillion and a half years to when a friend of mine, who is a cracking good comic book artist himself, introduced me to Hellboy. The art was a revelation and the characters and stories were so wonderfully weird and full of humor that I was instantly hooked. When Guillermo del Toro came out with the first Hellboy movie and Ron Perlman so embodied Big Red, we were over the moon because it […]
All we can do is play our parts and keep each other company
One fine spring day, the day her daughter Lolly is marrying Will, June loses everyone close to her in one unfortunate incident. Lolly, Will, Adam (Lolly’s father and June;s ex-husband) and Luke (June’s much younger live-in boyfriend) all perish in a horrific explosion and fire at June’s home, while she helplessly looks on. Each chapter of the book is narrated by different characters, some close to the tragedy, like Luke’s mother and June herself, even the mysterious 15-year-old Silas, while others have only a tangential […]
a dead man behind the wheel
Chief Inspector Maigret and his associate Lucas have been hammering away at a suspect for over seventeen hours and the man, while asserting his innocence with conviction, has hardly turned a hair. He still sits, with his well-cut suit only a little rumpled, though minus his belt, collar and shoelaces, as is police procedure. The man’s considerable sang froide (not to mention the one glass eye behind a monocle) has unsettled the inspector and he finds himself a bit out of sorts. There is nothing […]