October being ... well, October, I spent a lot of time watching and reading horror stuff, much of which wasn't actually on my to-read/to-watch list. We're talking new horror comics, some old horror comics, and at least one novel that I grabbed from the public library. But I did knock a few things off the …
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Leave the World Behind
So if you were online at an point in late 2023, you probably remember seeing an ad where Julia Roberts and her family were on a beach vacation and an oil tanker got closer and closer and closer and closer to the beach until it ran right up onto the shore. I never watched the …
Devil House
I was on a horror kick a few years ago--well, a "horror buying" kick, which means that here and there, I'm on a "horror reading" kick, but anyway--and when I was in my local independent bookstore (oh God that sounds so pretentious, I'm sorry), the cover of John Darnielle's Devil House caught my eye. I …
A roundup of books I’ve read (that aren’t Star Wars books or for Required Reading)
When I look at my monthly lists, I'm seeing that most of what I've been doing this year is reading books (and I have to admit that right now, I'm struggling to sit down with one for long periods of time. But I have read quite a few already and I thought that I'd do …
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Aliens: Bishop
So over the years, I've dipped into the comic books and novels that make up the "expanded universe" of the Alien/Aliens franchise. While I wasn't "on the ground" with issue #1 of the first Dark Horse series, I did buy one of the issues (#5, I think) off the stands and have an early edition …
Giving Up the Ghost
This is going to be a little bit of an odd "review" of a book I just finished because I'm pretty sure it's going to veer into "talking about me" territory in a way that I try to avoid. I've had Eric Nuzum's Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost …
Oh, you foul temptress
For the first two weeks of April, my local library holds a "Friends of the Library" sale. This is a huge flea market/ thrift store-type sale in an old store (it's actually the former library of my library branch) where they sell books, records, games, and moveis that people have donated throughout the previous years. …
Our Artists At War
It's #WarComicsMonth and I have a stack of books that I've been saving since last year that I'll be working my way through and hopefully remembering to review on this site (you know how these things go). They are from various eras and ages of comics as well as companies, ranging from Sgt. Fury and …
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
About a year and a half ago, I read Studs Terkel's Working, which was an "oral history" of occupations in the mid-1970s. I reviewed it in this post, and if you read that, you'll get a sense of how I came to know Terkel's work. Working is kind of a snapshot of a time as …
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JLA: Riddle of the Beast
Elseworlds books were fascinating to me when they first appeared in the early 1990s, and while I didn't get all of them (mostly because the $4.95 price tag was a bit too much at the time), I got my hands on a fair share, especially a number of the Batman ones (of which there were …
The Uncollecting 