Monthly Archives: June 2015

Review of The Witch of Bourbon Street by Suzanne Palmieri

Posted on June 30, 2015 by H.P.

“Well, I’m sure there are wild tales told all over that try to explain the convoluted nature of our bayous. Stories about alligators eating babies, hoodoo rituals, ghostly Civil War apparitions, racism, and a bunch of old folks sitting on … Continue reading →

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Review of One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright

Posted on June 29, 2015 by H.P.

One Bright Star to Guide Them is sort of a riff on the Chronicles of Narnia 30 years later with the children all grown up. Tommy is living a very boring, normal life, pending big promotion notwithstanding, when he’s visited … Continue reading →

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Review of Flow by Arlan Andrews

Posted on June 26, 2015 by H.P.

I don’t know if Flow is supposed to be part of a longer story, but it reads like it. Rist comes from a short, Eskimo-like folk living in a frozen land with constant cloud cover. He jumps on a chance … Continue reading →

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2015 Hugo Best Graphic Story Ballot

Posted on June 25, 2015 by H.P.

I haven’t read comic books regularly since comic books were books and were heavy on foil embossed commemorative covers.  I’ve enjoyed becoming reacquainted with the format, although the Image Comics-heavy nominees probably aren’t terribly representative.  Point is, I’m hardly qualified … Continue reading →

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Review of Ms. Marvel vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson

Posted on June 24, 2015 by H.P.

After a Spiderman and X-Men filled youth, I largely stopped reading comic books.  What little comic book reading I’ve done since then has been mostly The Walking Dead with a few other Image Comics thrown in.  So Ms. Marvel is … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on June 23, 2015 by H.P.

Volume 3 of Saga continues the story of star-crossed lovers from enemy peoples caught in an endless, bitter war, with a step up in quality from the first two (already good) volumes. Back are ram-horned Marko and insect-winged Alana, along … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on June 22, 2015 by H.P.

Volume 2 of Saga continues the story of star-crossed lovers from enemy peoples caught in an endless, bitter war. And it is the story of their child, born at the beginning of Volume 1. When Volume 1 ended, Alana, an … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on June 19, 2015 by H.P.

Taking 21st Century, Western ideals and cultural mores and simply slapping them on a speculative fiction setting is frequently decried as bad writing, but it has its place. One of the great virtues of speculative fiction, after all, is that … Continue reading →

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Review of Rat Queens vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N’Rygoth by Kurtis J. Wiebe

Posted on June 18, 2015 by H.P.

“Gary. I Will. Kill. You.” Rat Queens Volume 2 picks up with our hard-drinking, ill-behaved, all-female group of adventurers where Volume 1 left off. With the Rat Queens recovering from their post-battle victory party hangovers. But the real threat still … Continue reading →

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Review of Rat Queens vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe

Posted on June 17, 2015 by H.P.

Rat Queens is basically HBO’s Girls meets Dungeons & Dragons, featuring a four-woman adventure group: Betty, a horny, drunken “smidgen” thief (because every fantasy world needs its hobbit analogue). Dee, an atheist, socially awkward, human cleric of Cthulhu. Hannah, a … Continue reading →

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