Inbound Vol. 4, by The Boston Comics Roundtable
January 20, 2010 6:09 pmExactly the kind of comic I’d like to see more of: an anthology of stories from Boston’s history, by writers... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
Batman Year 100, by Paul Pope
January 10, 2010 10:38 amThis dystopian future Batman tale by the always-excellent Paul Pope comes straight from deep in the heart of the War... View Article
What I Read in 2009
January 2, 2010 10:11 amThis was my second year of attempting to read 52 books in 52 weeks. And, as in 2008, I met... View Article
The Winter Men, by Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon
December 31, 2009 2:09 pmI feel bad disliking this book. Its tortured history – seven years in development; length changed from 8 issues to... View Article
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, by Young-ha Kim
December 31, 2009 2:32 amThis is a weird book. It’s a Korean novel about a writer who gets people to hire him to help... View Article
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
December 30, 2009 4:32 pmThis should be right up my alley: dark fairy tales and short stories with fantasy/fairy tale overtones. But it doesn’t... View Article
Blankets, by Craig Thompson
December 30, 2009 2:31 amA really interesting, richly realized memoir about growing up as a misfit and finding comfort and connection in a first... View Article
Pluto Vol. 6, by Naoki Urasawa
December 29, 2009 2:01 pmIt’s hard to believe this isn’t the concluding volume; practically everything wraps up here. It could be the last book,... View Article
The Ruins, by Scott Smith
December 20, 2009 10:10 amThis Americans-on-vacation horror novel is intense, queasy, non-stop. The villain, if you can say there is one, is impressively original.... View Article
Fires, by Nick Antosca
December 5, 2009 2:40 amConceptually, right up my alley: A novel about wildfires revealing the horrifying, hidden secrets of a quiet suburban neighborhood. It... View Article