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12 Days of Best Covers of 2014: Day #10

The tenth book cover I pick for the 2014 edition of “12 Days of Best Covers of…” is for Gareth Powell’s second Ack-Ack Macaque novel, Hive Monkey, which was an absolute joy to read this year. It follows on from last year’s Ack-Ack Macaque and is pretty much just as good a novel, if not better. […]

Wonder Woman #37 (Comics Review)

Last month DC’s Wonder Woman title underwent its first major creative change, with a completely new incoming creative team of Meredith Finch, David Finch, Richard Friend, Sonia Oback and Dezi Sienty. The outgoing creative team, headlined by writer Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, had enjoyed a long and successful run, but now it was time […]

Black Widow #13 (Comics Review)

Last month on Black Widow we saw what happened when news media across the globe got access to some classified and confidential files on the titular character. Noted real-life news anchor/journalist Anderson Cooper guest-starred in the issue, providing a damning account of Natasha’s recent activities and the question was raised whether she was an asset or […]

Advent Review #22: The Kitchen #2 (Comics Review)

Vertigo’s latest, The Kitchen, proved to be a surprise hit for me last month. I originally found out about it through series co-creator Ming Doyle and then discovered that another favourite artist, Jordie Bellaire, was on the credits as well, so going in, I had some high expectations and they were most decidedly met. The […]

12 Days of Best Covers of 2014: Day #9

The ninth book cover I pick for the 2014 edition of “12 Days of Best Covers of…” is for a Warhammer Fantasy novel, The End Times: The Return of Nagash by Josh Reynolds, the cover for which was done by Paul Dainton. The End Times is a new series in Warhammer Fantasy that is positioned as […]

Advent Review #21: Ms. Marvel #10 (Comics Review)

As the year closes out, you look back at all the new books from Marvel that have come out this year and you realize that in all of them, there’s one that stands above the rest: Ms. Marvel, starring Kamala Khan, an entirely new heroine created by G. Willow Wilson and Ian Herring who has […]

12 Days of Best Covers of 2014: Day #8

The eighth book cover I pick for the 2014 edition of “12 Days of Best Covers of…” is actually not for a novel, but an audio drama. Written by Nick Kyme, Horus Heresy: Censure is the continuation of the tale of Sergeant Aeonid Thiel of the Ultramarines, who was awaiting censure by the Primarch Guilliman for […]

Advent Review #20: Age of Darkness Vol.1 (Graphic Novel Review)

As I’ve mentioned in several places this year, Zenescope’s Age of Darkness crossover event has been really good from all that I’ve read and it continues to be so as the event progresses. Going on for almost a year now, with a lot of prep before that, we’ve seen how the Realms have come under […]

12 Days of Best Covers of 2014: Day #7

The seventh book cover I pick for the 2014 edition of “12 Days of Best Covers of…” is for Star Trek: The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow, which is the fourth novel in last year’s The Fall quintology, itself a series that is a part of the larger Typhon Pact mega-arc in the setting. James carried […]

Advent Review #19: Supergirl #36-37 (Comics Review)

DC’s Supergirl is one of the first titles I started reading when I got back into comics some two and a half years ago, having kicked things off with the newly-launched New 52 titles like Batman and Superman. Since those early days, the title has seen a lot of turnover of creators and along the […]