I have never regretted the many hours that I have spent reading but I do find that the more I read, the harder it is for me to fall in love with a book. As you read brilliant stories, you get pickier and pickier about what captures your imagination. And […]
As someone who spends a lot more time reading than I do watching television, I find that I always have this compulsion to read the book first when I hear about a movie or television show based on a book. This tends to mean that my to-read list just grows […]
One of the best aspects of science fiction is how broad and adaptable it is as a genre. There aren’t all that many genres that are comfortable tossing disparate elements like spaceships and Old West style gunslingers together but science fiction straddles both in the most entertaining, creative ways. This […]
Continuing in the vein of messed up stories from last week, this week I’ll be reviewing Deadly Class which is written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Wes Craig. Deadly Class is basically the story of high school if everyone was learning to be a cutthroat assassin. It’s dark, brutal […]
As I may have mentioned a few times before, I have a fairly twisted sense of humor. Simple humor is all well and good but a story that can make me laugh and feel bad for doing so is just that much better. Until picking up Chew, no comic book […]
I would bet that if you asked a random person off the street to name a member of the X-men, Wolverine would be the first on the list. He has always been the most popular of that superhero group because he fits that tough, Marlboro Man image that we all […]
Since I was disappointed with the modernized pantheon of Wonder Woman last week, I figured I’d try the deities theme again and review The Wicked and the Divine this week. The Wicked and the Divine is a very new modern fantasy series written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Jamie […]
