Injection, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, art by Declan Shalvey Image Comics, 2015 ISBN: 9781632154798 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, and comiXology ebook Injection centers around five eccentric geniuses dealing with the paranormal, and the consequences they must face after inflicting The Injection on the planet. Years earlier, Maria Kilbride founded the Cross Culture-Contamination Unit (CCCU), funded through […]
Month: December 2017
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, adaptation and art by Gou Tanabe, translated by Zach Davisson Dark Horse, 2017 ISBN: 9781506703121 Available: print Gou Tanabe, known in Japan for using manga to adapt literary works, has adapted three tales of the macabre in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories. This volume includes “The Temple,” “The […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E3- eXodus
December 24, 2017*From here on out I might be including spoilers. Reader beware. In our last episode Alpha Dad Reed Strucker struck a deal with Sentinel Services (mutant hunters) to betray the identities of the member of the Mutant Underground (and the location of their secret headquarters) in exchange for the safety of his family. Because a […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E2- rX
December 23, 2017*From here on out I might be including spoilers. Reader beware. Episode 2 launches with a flashback of the Strucker family out doing family things and father Reed fails to be a truly good person by partially protecting a mutant child and her father. At this point daughter Lauren probably already has her powers. Reed […]
Buffy: The High School Years: Parental Parasite by Kel McDonald, art by Yishan Li Dark Horse Comics, 2017 ISBN: 9781506703046 Available: print, Kindle, and comiXology ebook Into every generation, a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. So begins the story of Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, and Xander chasing down a […]
Book Review: My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
December 19, 2017My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781501160486 Available: Hardcover/Kindle edition/Audio Download/Compact Disc Elsa is seven, “going on eight”. Her world looks bleak: she is too mature for her age. and is bullied and friendless at school. Elsa’s parents are divorced. She lives with her mother, […]
TV Review: iZombie season 1
December 17, 2017Liv Moore (*rimshot*) was an overachiever headed straight for a prestigious career as a heart surgeon and a wonderful life as the wife of perfect, sweet heart throb Major Lilywhite. (Yup, enjoy the puns, folks.) And then, after being encouraged to loosen up, Liv attends a party that ends in a zombie mini-pocalypse. Liv is […]
Interview with David Gallaher, Author of High Moon
December 16, 2017Reviewer Lizzy Walker had the opportunity to interview David Gallaher, author of the werewolf Western graphic novel series High Moon, just in time for the full moon… Look for our review of volume 1 of High Moon, coming soon! You’ll definitely want to check it out after you read what David has to say! LW: I’m familiar with […]
Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
December 14, 2017Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) by Seanan McGuire Tor, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0765392039 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Down Among the Sticks and Bones is a companion novella to Seanan McGuire’s award-winning novella Every Heart a Doorway. Every Heart a Doorway explored the question of what happens after children who walk through a door to a fantasy world […]
High Moon Volume 1: Bullet Holes and Bite Marks by David Gallaher, art by Steve Ellis Super Genius, 2017 ISBN: 9781629918419 Available: print High Moon, the horror adventure webcomic from Zudacomics.com, full of werewolves, hoodoo, and supernatural mystery, is now in graphic novel form. In the first chapter, set in the Old West, bounty hunter Matthew Macgregor […]