Every time I pick up one of Kazu Kibuishi’s graphic novels, I turn into a big kid again. I can’t help it. Kibiuishi is such a naturally gifted storyteller that I can’t help but get swept up in whatever adventure he’s spinning and get carried right along. I’m not sure if the sense of wonder […]
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THE HUNTER by Richard Stark
January 16, 2011Click Cover To Go To Amazon I’ve made a promise to reread all the early Parker novels by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) this year. The books are short and compact, and the reading will be a pleasure. I can burn through them in a sitting or two. The books are dated, of course, because most […]
FABLES: STORYBOOK LOVE by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, and Linda Medley
October 21, 2010Bill Willingham’s Fables series is an absolute blast. Instead of simply revisiting the unique and interesting world he has created from “storybook legends” from all around the world, he’s turned it into an organic enterprise. Things happen in the books. People change and characters die. Even eternal characters that have been around hundreds of years. […]
FABLES: ANIMAL FARM by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and Steve Leialoha
October 18, 2010Bill Willingham is gleefully (one can only imagine) writing a series of adult fairy tales for DC Comics’ Vertigo Imprint. He’s been at it for years and no one is holding him in check. Maybe they can’t. Maybe his powers have grown that great. But in that time (and he’s still at it), he’s fractured […]
MERCY THOMPSON: HOMECOMING by Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence, and Francis Tsai
October 17, 2010Patricia Briggs has created Mercy Thompson, a VW mechanic who’s a shapeshifter and lives immersed in a supernatural world. Although she’s a were-coyote (a skinwalker), she was raised by werewolves. She’s also believed to possibly be the last of her kind, and no one knows for sure why she’s become what she is. Those mythos […]
HAUNT by Robert Kirkman, Todd McFarlane, Ryan Ottley, and Greg Capullo
October 16, 2010Robert Kirkman seems determined to take over the comics world. Based on his latest successes, that could be possible. His comics series The Walking Dead is basically a soap opera with zombies that keeps readers hanging on by their fingernails from month to month, and is now going to be a television series as well […]
THE UNKNOWN by Mark Waid and Minck Oosterveer
October 15, 2010Mark Waid seems to get more press for the things he’s done with colorfully clad superheroes. He rewrote Superman’s future in Kingdom Come and set a lot of plot lines into play that writers jockeyed with for years (and some still do), and he had an absolutely sterling run on Captain America that fans still […]
POTTER’S FIELD by Mark Waid and Paul Azaceta
October 13, 2010Crime stories have arrived in comics in a big way. Back when comics were first starting, policeman and detectives featured as heroes were the order of the day. Until people (some of them policemen and detectives) started putting on colorful costumes and fighting criminals with fancy gadgets or superpowers. Then guys like Ed Brubaker and […]
TALISMAN BOOK 1: THE ROAD OF TRIALS by Stephen King, Peter Straub, Robin Furth, and Tony Shasteen
July 31, 2010I was an on-again, off-again Stephen King fan back in my twenties. I loved Dead Zone and ‘Salem’s Lot, enjoyed Christine and Firestarter okay, but got turned off by some of his later books. While I was working at a fast food company and trying to get my own writing off the ground, I ended […]
