Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
June 28, 2008 2:05 amAs interesting a study in genre as I can recall. If anyone else wrote this bludgeoning, gore-soaked novel, it would... View Article
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Smuggling Spirits, Vol. 1, by Ben Fisher and Mike Henderson
June 26, 2008 2:05 amA good high concept: in an alternative 1920s, where demons overran the earth after World War I, a man and... View Article
Scalped, Vol. 2: Casino Boogie, by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera
June 23, 2008 2:03 amThe second installment of Aaron’s noir-on-the-reservation series. This collection of linked short stories focusing on an individual characters on the... View Article
Dragon Head Vol. 10, by Minetaro Mochizuki
June 21, 2008 2:01 amI’d decided to quit this pointless series before its end, but found I’d mail-ordered the final volume and forgotten. Since... View Article
Master of Reality, by John Darnielle
June 17, 2008 2:38 amFrom a series of short books on important albums. This one, on Black Sabbath’s album of the same name, is... View Article
Clockwork Creature, by Kyle Strahm
June 15, 2008 2:38 amAn early work by artist Kyle Strahm, one of my collaborators on Split Lip. Kyle’s work is distinctive and beautiful,... View Article
Conjunctions 39, The New Wave Fabulists
June 13, 2008 2:34 amAn anthology covering the growing crossover between literary fiction and genres like horror, science fiction, and fantasy. I love those... View Article
Crossing Midnight Vol. 2: A Map of Midnight, by Mike Carey and Jim Fern
June 12, 2008 2:34 amThis concept is appealing — a story about Japanese legends and ghosts, by English and American creators — but the... View Article
DMZ Vol. 4: Friendly Fire, by Brian Wood, Riccardo Burchielli, et al.
June 10, 2008 2:30 amWood and Burchielli’s alternate history of a new U.S. civil war in the near future is generally engaging, though its... View Article
Kane Vol. 6: Partners, by Paul Grist
June 8, 2008 5:30 pmComics’ only pure police procedural. No other comic is so obsessive in examining, in minute detail, the ways in which... View Article