Review time! with ‘Compass South’ and ‘Knife’s Edge’
Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock give us two volumes of mysterious treasures, mistaken identities, pirates, and grand adventure on the high seas. Let’s take a look!
Month: January 2018
‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breaking the Scream Barrier’
Travis takes a look at a paperback collection of thriller stories presented by Alfred Hitchcock in the early ’70s, and finds it to be pretty good.
365 Days of Cerebus, Day 4: ‘Cerebus’ 3
365 Days of Cerebus continues with issue 3, which introduces the character of Red Sophia, a parody of…well, you figure it out.
‘The Imago Sequence and Other Stories’ by Laird Barron
Travis takes a look at The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron, who writes weird fiction in the vein of Lovecraft.
In praise of Panini Pocketbooks
UK publisher Panini churned out a bunch of modern digest-sized reprint books that collect a wonderful quantity and variety of Marvel comics, mainly from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Howard Stark Rising
Tony Stark’s father went from a one-panel throwaway character to a legend in his own right.
365 Days of Cerebus, Day 3: ‘Cerebus’ 2
Continuing 365 Days of Cerebus with a look at issue 2 of Cerebus, where Cerebus goes after another shiny bauble and doesn’t really get it.