Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks

20th Century Boys, vols. 14-15, by Naoki Urasawa

December 19, 2011 11:05 am Published by Sam

Moving towards the conclusion of this epic manga. I’m always struck by the texture and depth of manga art. The... View Article

December 18, 2011 9:53 am Published by Sam

by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Another in this excellent series of standalone noir comics. It engages with a classic... View Article

December 16, 2011 9:52 am Published by Sam

Martin is merciless. He has no compunction about spending a book, or more, building a character only to kill them... View Article

December 15, 2011 10:58 am Published by Sam

Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case; The Wolf by Tom Neely My review of Neely’s excellent The... View Article

December 8, 2011 10:16 am Published by Sam

Mary Roach is one of our funniest serious writers. And there can’t be many who take more evident pleasure in... View Article

December 1, 2011 10:12 am Published by Sam

I echo Sean Collins on this one: if Ott spent a fraction of the time and care on his writing... View Article

November 24, 2011 10:56 am Published by Sam

A relatively early work (though, according to the interview with Tatsumi at the back of the book, roughly his 15th... View Article

November 17, 2011 10:43 am Published by Sam

Death Trap, by Lane Milburn; Curio Cabinet, by John Brodowski; Deadworld: Slaughterhouse, by Gary Reed and Sami Makkonen. I read... View Article

November 10, 2011 10:41 am Published by Sam

I’m not much for fantasy—as one friend said when I mentioned this: you mean trolls and shit? That’s basically my... View Article

November 3, 2011 10:36 am Published by Sam

A modern fairy tale by the author of Persepolis that inverts a number of genre tropes. From rewarding the knowledge-seeking... View Article