Monday, August 17, 2020

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/15/20

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Two books this time, which have been sitting around for longer than I want to say, given that I supposedly do this thing weekly. But I...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/25/20

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I haven't been in the mood to write here lately, as has probably been apparent. I'm still not reading much, but it's better than...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/11/20

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I actually had one book arrive in the mail last week -- Carrizozo: An Illustrated History , the latest self-published (and Kickstarted ) ...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 6/13/20

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I had a birthday at the beginning of this month -- not a big milestone, just another step deeper into middle-age -- which meant there had ...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

The Envious Siblings and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes by Landis Blair

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So I wanted to like The Envious Siblings . And I did, I guess, somewhat, but not to the level that I hoped. It's interesting and dark ...
Monday, June 01, 2020

Reviewing The Mail: Week of May 30, 2020

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Two books this week, both from the fine folks at Tachyon Publications and both in my hands in advance reader copy form. (I'd vaguely t...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown

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One of the problems with reading fewer books is that you tend to concentrate on what you already know. And if, like me, you try to write s...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Wallace Mystery by Rick Geary

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I've written a lot about Rick Geary here over the years; I'll try not to repeat myself too much now. His comics work for the past...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

O Josephine! by Jason

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I'm endlessly fascinated by the minutia of the commercial end of stories: how they are distributed and manufactured and repackaged for...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez

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Two years later, here's a one-shot I Love (And Rockets) Monday  -- because the Brothers Hernandez have kept making comics, and those c...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

By Night, Vol. 1 by Allison, Larsen, and Stern

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I am unabashedly a John Allison fan; I'll say that up front. I may not have been quite as much of a long-term  Allison fan as some -- ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

The Eye of Mongombo, Book One by Doug Gray

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Serialization, the fans of floppy comics are fond of telling us, means that stories actually get told, since their creators can get paid w...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Jesus, I hope you're not expecting much today. Because there's no way I'm doing this book any justice. I re-read Catch-22  o...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 5/16/20

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It's been a while, hasn't it? All of my usual mechanisms for getting new books have been, as we say around here, fakakta lately. ...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Quote of the Week: Insert Contemporary Political Reference Here

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You know, that might be the answer -- to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fa...