Hafu. That’s Japanese for anyone who’s half-Japanese. It can either have an “exotic” or negative connotation depending on the person and situation. It’s not pleasant being a hafu in Japanese. Christine Mari experienced this reality and shared her experience in her comic “Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self Discovery.” Christine Mari is half-American, and half-Japanese. She moved to the US from Japan when she was five and has been […]
Let’s face it: horror movie villains have been dull in the past two decades. I don’t want to hear about John from “Saw” or Annabelle, they’re not scary. The last horror movie I truly enjoyed was “The Conjuring 2.” Then last month I found out about Art the Clown and the “Terrifier” franchise and had to see what all the fuss is about. People, we have a new horror movie […]
Graphic novels have been around for decades. Nowadays it seems like we take for granted that there are thousands of graphic novels available. That was not the case once upon a time. Pictures in books were only meant to be illustrations that accompanied the book, not the entire book. Early 19th-century artist Lynd Ward changed all that by creating God’s Man, a “wordless novel” made up of 139 woodblocks that […]
For the past four months or so I have been playing “Bloodborne.” I’m no expert who can beat these games wearing no armor and not get hit once (in fact, I suck at these games to the point I over-level. Yeah, I know.) So it comes as no surprise that I found out there were four Bloodborne comic books, all written by Ales Kott with artists Piotr Kowalski and Brad […]
The Friday the 13th franchise is ingrained into the psyche of many Americans to the point where some people think some camps had murders happening in them. It’s also fodder for some people to use that idea for a story. One of these is You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayon. Camp Mirror Lake is a horror attraction based on a movie where patrons are put into the […]
I know I’m not the most prolific writer on here, but things happen. So, I’m giving you guys a two-for-one review and it’s the first two books of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. I bought Gardens of the Moon 23 years ago because it sounded amazing and the cover looked nice. It’s been sitting on my shelf unread until a few months ago. After reading […]
I’ve never been a Stephen King fan. I find his writing to be over-descriptive, meandering and full of filler. Of course, there are some rare books of his that I do enjoy. One of them is “The Green Mile.” Yes, I’ve also seen the movie so I’ll talk about both here. First, I’ve known about “The Green Mile” for decades. I never had time or interest in ever reading the […]
I haven’t read that many books in the past year. I spent more time reviewing comics for reviewfix.com than reading novels. I can count on one hand the number of novels I’ve read this past year. One of those novels is Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and I can say without hesitation that this was the best book I’ve read that year. Odd, whose name means “the […]
Yes, I’m fully aware that it’s been almost a year since I did anything with this site. Real ife stuff has happened in that time so I’ll try to make up for any lost time. This time it’s going to be the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Yes, I went from reading one big book (War and Peace) to another and this one didn’t take me about 15 years to […]
Ah, War and Peace. That one 19th Century Russian novel that the makers of Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! want you to believe that an elementary school-age child can finish during winter break. It is also considered one of the best novels, if not the best, novel ever written. I started reading War and peace sometime in 2005 or 2006 and did not complete it until December 2021. Why so […]
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