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Graphic Reviews: My Favorite Thing is Monsters

My Favorite Thing is Monsters As we roll further into October, most of us are indulging in our favorite fall (and Halloween) pleasures: cooler weather, pumpkin spice (or complaining about it), falling leaves and, of course, monsters. Halloween is the time of year that monster lovers can come out of […]


Graphic Reviews: Harrow County

Harrow County Since I started my month of horror comics a bit late, I’ll be extending this binge read a bit longer than October. That month went by entirely too quickly! This week, I’m taking a look at Harrow County, a new series published by Dark Horse Comics which features […]


Graphic Reviews: Mythic

Mythic Since the very beginning of humanity, we have struggled between belief and skepticism. Do we explain thunder as the stomping around of a magical beingĀ in the sky or as a natural process involving the sudden increase in pressure and temperature caused by lightning? The more sophisticated humans have become […]


Graphic Reviews: Monstress

Monstress While I’ve never done much writing myself, the techniques that go into the craft have always fascinated me. In the realm of speculative fiction, two things can make or break a story: worldbuilding and pacing. While there are plenty of other important elements, these are the two that I […]


Graphic Reviews: Debris 1

Debris One of the dangers of being a bibliophile is that the battle of the to-read stacks is never-ending. This is especially true for graphic novels because hundreds of issues are published each month and even once collected into volumes, it’s nigh impossible to keep up with. Even if you […]


Graphic Reviews: Nimona

Nimona Given that I discussed one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written last week, this week seemed a good time to discuss that line between anti-hero and sympathetic villain. One of the aspects of anti-heroes that makes them interesting is that on a bad day, they’re really not that much […]


Graphic Reviews: iZombie

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 […]