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Manga Review: ‘7 Billion Needles’ Volume One by Nobuaki Tadano
It was the cover to the first volume of Nobuaki Tadano’s 7 Billion Needles (Vertical, Inc.) that first caught my attention: several panels showing a young headphone wearing girl as she is zapped into a...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics’ by Margreet de Heer
The first in a series of engaging volumes subtitled “A Discovery in Comics,” Margreet de Heer’s Philosophy (NBM) sketches its way through the origins of Western philosophy to selected modern...
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Music Review: Deni Bonet –‘It’s All Good’
A rock energy violinist who has worked with the likes of Robyn Hitchcock, Sarah McLachlan and R.E.M., Deni Bonet scores high on the pop quirk meter with her release, It’s All Good (M-R 2 Records). A...
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Book Review: ‘Deadbeat: Makes You Stronger’ by Guy Adams
In spite of an awkward (if apt) title Guy Adams’ Deadbeat: Makes You Stronger (Titan Books) proves an engagingly dark humoured piece of paperback pulp. The first in a series featuring Tom Harris, the...
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Book Review: ‘American Comic Book Chronicles: 1980’s,’ Edited by Keith Dallas
What a difference a decade and a half makes. The second book in TwoMorrows Publishing’s American Comic Book Chronicles Keith Dallas’ The 1980s shows a comics industry much changed from the one depicted...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Monster on the Hill’ by Rob Harrell
Whimsical and inventively goofy, Rob Harrell’s comic fantasy Monster on the Hill (Top Shelf Productions) takes us back to an 1867 England awash with giant beasties. They are so much a part of the...
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Book Review: ‘God Is Disappointed in You’ by Mark Russell, Illustrated by...
If you’re the kind of reader who takes the text of the Bible as the inviolable Word of God, chances are Mark Russell’s God Is Disappointed in You (Top Shelf Productions) will not be your cup of myrrh....
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Comics Review: ‘Simon & Kirby Library: Science-Fiction’ by Joe Simon and Jack...
The latest entry in Titan Books’ handsomely mounted “Simon & Kirby Library,” The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction looks to the start of this groundbreaking duo’s history as comic book...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Zombillenium’ by Arthur De Pins
Though the title of Arthur de Pina’s graphic novel series Zombillenium (NBM) reads as if it’s part of the walking dead zeitgeist, in actuality the comic horror series provides a wider range of...
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Manga Review: ‘Moon & Blood,’ Volume One by Nao Yazawa
Add to the list of modern entertainment centered on a girlishly spunky heroine and a boyishly dreamy vampire, Nao (Wedding Peach) Yazawa’s shojo manga mini-series Moon and Blood (Digital Manga Press)....
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Book Review: ‘The Secret Lives of Married Women’ by Elissa Wald
A psycho-sexual thriller divided into two thematically interlocking stories, Elissa Wald’s The Secret Lives of Married Women (Hard Case Crime) tells of twin sisters whose hidden selves get revealed in...
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Book Review: ‘The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons’ by Lawrence Block
Of the many series characters created by prolific crime novelist Lawrence Block’s, my personal favorite has to be his Bernie Rhodenbarr a.k.a. The Burglar Who _____. It’s not because of his title...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Science’ by Margreet de Heer
The second “Discovery in Comics” to be published by NBM, Margreet de Heer’s Science follows the format of her earlier edu-comic Philosophy. Drawn in a lightheartedly cartoonish style, the book presents...
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Manga Review: ‘Moon & Blood’ Volume Two by Nao Yazawa
The second volume in Nao Yawawa’s supernatural romance, Moon and Blood (DMP) follows up on the development of its budding relationship ‘tween teen girl heroine Sayaka and teen vamp Kai Kuryuu: a...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘March’ Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate...
The first book in a graphic novel trilogy by congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis, March (Top Shelf Productions) is a well-wrought personal account of the early days of the movement. It...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Survive! Inside the Human Body,’ Volume One by...
The first in a science comics trilogy designed to teach young readers about human biology, Gomdori Co.s’ Survive! Inside the Human Body (No Starch Press) is a rollicking children’s sci-fi comic that...
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Book Review: ‘Badge’ by Art Edwards
The third installment in a 10-book rock novel series, Art Edwards’ Badge (Thirteenth Note) looks at the music scene at the start of the 21st century through the eyes of a recovering “soldier for rock...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Betty Blues’ by Renaud Dillies
An early animal-populated graphic novel by the creator of Abelard and Bubbles & Gondola, Renaud Dillies’ Betty Blues (NBM) tells the story of a busted romance between jazz trumpeter Rice Duck and...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Snow Piercer: The Escape’ by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc...
Released by Titan Books to ride on the release of a movie adaptation, Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette’s Snow Piercer: The Escape is a grim dystopian French graphic novel about a frozen Earth where...
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Book Review: ‘The Wrong Quarry’ by Max Allan Collins
The latest in Max Allan Collins’ Quarry series, The Wrong Quarry (Hard Case Crime) takes the writer’s hard-nosed hero back to the early eighties where he is still free-lancing as a hitman’s hitman....
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