book review
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1: Cosmic Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis I borrowed Guardians from my local library because of the movie due out next month. I also like Brian Michael Bendis’ writing. I am a fan of his Ultimate Spider-Man comics. Guardians of the Galaxy starts out with a familiar Bendis style drama.…
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The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft My rating: 3 of 5 stars I was infatuated with HP Lovecraft for a brief period in my life but mostly because of the drawings he inspired by HR Giger. I had a collection of Lovecraft’s stories that I bought at Tower Books (many, many years ago) but can’t…
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Sweet Tooth, Vol. 5: Unnatural Habitats by Jeff Lemire My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was two NY Comic Cons (2012) ago when I heard Jeff Lemire speak about the eventual end of Sweet Tooth. It has been one of my favorite series and though it has been a while since I read Volume…
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The Return of the Living Dead was my introduction to zombie movies. It had an amazing soundtrack. 45 Grave’s “Partytime” is my favorite song from it. This Wednesday, November 20, Dark Horse Comics will release the newest addition to the I Am Legend canon: So I Survived the Zombie Apocalypse and All I Got was…
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It would have been too easy to include the trailer or a clip from the move adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events at the beginning of this review. Cary Grant’s “Hoodoo” skit in The Bachelor and the Bobbie Soxer does a better job at describing the subtle wordplay and humor in Snicket’s…
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It’s chapters are easily divisible by the mock news clips she provides to give you a quotient of interconnected episodes from a series about a woman on trial for murdering her husband. … Regarded as a classic, the discriminating observer cannot ignore that the story pushes the boundaries of coincidence: Kim Novak’s character happens to…
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In Sugar Weather, Lisa Simmons sows the imagination with the seeds of a great gothic romance (in the English Lit sense of the word, not the pop). She gives us Lucy who, like Catherine Earnshaw (from Emily Bronte’s famous book, Wuthering Heights ), is strong-willed and passionate but also contemplative and composed (refined). As I…
