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 […]
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 […]
That’s right, I’m reviewing another Speak adaptation. I do like that book that much. This time it’s the graphic novel with artist Emily Carroll. As with the previous two, the plot is about high schooler Melinda who everyone hates because she went to a party and called the cops, getting everyone in trouble. The real reason and this is no longer a spoiler, she got raped at that party but […]
Wow, I haven’t written a review of anything horror in almost two years. Time to fix that with the YA novel The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn. Jules (girl. Yes, I know) moves into an old house in Virginia because her dad renovates old houses. She spots a mysterious girl on the third floor of the house and Jules thinks the girl is trying to call […]
How many of you remember a small movie called The Indian in the Cupboard? I remember loving it as a kid. Recently I was talking about the movie with my sister (don’t remember what sparked it) and she said that my brother-in-law’s cousin was in it as a background character in the school. So I immediately turned the movie on and whenever they were in school I asked my brother […]
It’s finally happened: I found a Stephen King book that I like. It took seventeen years and about ten books to get to this book. Well, King did write like a hundred books so it was inevitable I’d find one. It’s also King’s first book and the one he hates the most. That book is Carrie. The book about an awkward girl who is constantly picked on by other girls […]
We’re all familiar with the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, right? The story about a hardnosed detective who hates ‘toons is forced to help out a ‘toon rabbit who is wanted for murder. It’s one of Bob Hoskins’ best movies. What most people don’t know is that this movie, like a lot of movies, is based on a novel. That novel is Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf. […]
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