Y the Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores
September 2, 2008 2:26 amBy Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra The final collection of the five-year series about a gender plague that leaves... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
Tales of Ordinary Madness, by Charles Bukowski
August 26, 2008 2:20 amFunny, profane, repetitive, shocking, heartbreaking. All of what I remembered this collection to be. While it bogs down under repetition... View Article
Good-Bye, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
August 19, 2008 2:19 amThe third volume of these brutal slice-of-life comics from Japan circa 1969-72. Nothing like the popular image of manga, and... View Article
Faker, by Mike Carey and Jock
August 14, 2008 2:17 amA terrific high-concept ? five friends wake up after a night of hard partying to find a sixth friend who... View Article
Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work, by Jason Brown
August 10, 2008 2:15 amA bruising collection of short stories that will ring unpleasantly true for anyone who’s lived very long in rural New... View Article
Pulphope, by Paul Pope
August 6, 2008 2:14 amAn artbook by one of the leading comics artists of this generation. The book is highlighted by the appearance of... View Article
Whatever, by Karl Stevens
August 3, 2008 4:14 pmA collection of strips Stevens did for the Boston Phoenix alt.weekly. Stevens captures just the right moment sand expressions. The... View Article
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
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