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book review: april 2011 bulk edition
I have been neglecting my reviewing duties. But don’t worry, I’ve still been reading. I haven’t given up on the printed word (and image). Just been slow in typing about them. So here is a list of the...
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book review: storybook love
I’m slowly catching up on Bill Willingham’s Fables series. It really is as good as everyone said. The general concept is that all the fable characters are immortal and have been living in New York...
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book review: the sea of trolls
The Sea of Trolls was my first book I’ve read by Nancy Farmer and it was really good. It’s about a Saxon boy named Jack who is becoming a bard and is kidnapped by Vikings (Northmen) with his sister and...
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book review: the lightning thief
Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief was so very Harry Potter it was funny. Percy Jackson is the son of a Greek god who left. I won’t say which one because it takes him what seems like forever to figure...
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book review: the bride of hell and others
The Bride of Hell and Others is a collection of Hellboy short stories. There’s a very good one about him fighting demons in Mexico with a couple of Mexican Wrestler brothers, and a great one where he...
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book review: everything went white (newuniversal vol. 1)
I picked up Newuniversal: Everything Went White because it’s written by Warren Ellis. It’s a different 2006 and a celestial event happens on Earth and at least a couple of superhumans are discovered....
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book review: the book of genesis
In 2009 Robert Crumb illustrated the Book of Genesis. His introduction to the book dispels any thoughts that he’s trying to do some sort of parody or anything. It’s a pretty straight-up version of the...
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book review: metal (northlanders vol. 5)
Metal is the fifth volume of Brian Wood’s excellent Northlanders series. As per usual, it’s got multiple stories in the book, each one with a different illustrator. I wasn’t such a huge fan of the...
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book review: trickster makes this world
Trickster Makes This World is a book about how trickster myths work in different cultures and the impact they have on the cultures they’re found in. It was a very interesting examination of creativity...
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book review: supergods
I want to recommend Grant Morrison’s Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human as if it was just a straight up recounting of...
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book review: green grass, running water
Casting about for something to read while my eink device was charging (remember that most of my physical books are still in boxes) I grabbed my iPad and discovered I’d begun Thomas King’s Green Grass,...
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book review: norse mythology
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology translation is a fine little basic sampler book of tales about Thor and Loki and Freya and all that lot. I realized reading it how much the Marvel Comics versions of...
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book review: fifteen dogs
The idea behind André Alexis’ novel Fifteen Dogs is that Apollo and Hermes lay a bet on whether it would be possible for a dog to die happy if given human consciousness. To settle the bet they grant...
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