Trying new titles is always a good thing, and one that provides a lot of excitement. Also, it is a good way to expand your horizons because there are a lot of […]
Tragedy and Fury – Miss Fury Volume 1: Anger is An Energy
The book starts out with our anti-heroine falling into a machine and thrust forward into 2013 from 1943. Jumping forward seventy years out of your time and comfort zone must be a […]
Two Different Tonics – Strange Killings: Strong Medicine and Necromancer
The next two chapters in the ongoing tribulations of Ellis and Wolfer’s combat magician, William Gravel are good, with one far better than the other. Strong Medicine has our hero looking into […]
Gravel, Teacher – Strange Killings: The Body Orchard
This series of Warren Ellis’s combat magician sees our hero in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Again. Seems Gravel just cannot keep out of trouble no matter where he goes. […]
He Knows What He’s Doing – Witch Doctor: Under the Knife
The best thing about watching Hugh Laurie as House is the sarcastic wit and the know-it-all attitude he has. He is so full of himself, thinking he is always right yet unlike […]
Think Before You Dig Up That Graveyard! – Witchcraft (1964)
Lon Chaney is furious! A developer is tearing up his family’s graveyard even though no one has been recently buried there in the last 150 years. Bill Lanier played by Jack Hedley […]
More Than One Kind of Haunting – Ghosted Volume One: Haunted Heist
Who does not love a good ghost story? Really, who? This book – Ghosted – is one of the best books about said phenomenon in years. Another does not even come to […]
Just a Bit Frustrated – The Mad Magician (1954)
Don Gallico, an up-and-coming magician, in his own mind at least, never had a show of his own but worked for many other magicians creating their tricks and illusions. Halfway through his […]
Strange Indeed – Strange Kiss and Stranger Kisses
William Gravel, simply put, is Avatar’s answer to Vertigo’s John Constantine. He’s a little rough, a little crude and sarcastic as well as a former member of the SAS. What he also […]
Darque Reckoning – Shadowman Volume 2
The new Valiant, or we should just say Valiant, has been on a roll of late releasing all of their properties slowly but surely with top writers and artists. Included among that […]