Think back to when you were 12. What were you doing? Meeting mysterious old (and I mean really, really, REALLY old) men who can stop time? Getting home to find an exact copy (or at least a close approximation) of yourself in your bedroom who is completely made from mud and who says he is a Golem and has been sent to take your place? How about battling a beautiful princess (at least when she’s not turning into a monster) whose mother is the Mother […]
Super!
Target: Tim Leong’s Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe Profile: Comics!, Non-fiction? Super Graphic is an aggregation of information. A sequence of colorful graphs, diagrams and charts that serve up a dizzying variety of information about comic books, the worlds they contain and the industry that produces them. It isn’t so much a book to be read cover to cover as it is an adventure, every page turn revealing something new and delightful. That is, if you’re a comic book nerd. Which is […]
You probably don’t want to read this.
One of the internet’s favorite catch phrases would have made a great title for this, but I couldn’t bring myself to use it. I’ve been a longtime fan of true crime, but this book was hard for me to read. I’m giving it 3 stars, because it’s well executed, but it’s not enjoyable and neither is my review.
Battle Royale in Space
There’s been a lot of recent hullaballoo about Red Rising. Pierce Brown is young and handsome and eloquent and has a lot to say about the world he has created in Red Rising, which I’m sure is making movie studios salivate at the prospect of finally producing the next Hunger Games franchise. But Red Rising is a lot more than a potential movie series starring very attractive young people. There’s some real writing talent here. What exactly is Red Rising about? Well. Its about a future […]