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The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond (Book Review)

Angry Robot launched its Young Adult imprint Strange Chemistry in Fall 2012 and in the year and a half since, the new imprint has published a lot of great fiction, such as the Emilie novels by Martha Wells or The Holders novels by Julianna Scott. Some of it hasn’t been to my tastes however, and […]

Obsidian and Blood by Aliette de Bodard (Book Review)

Before I started reading Angry Robot novels back in 2012, I hadn’t heard of Aliette de Bodard. And then in June of that year I read her Aztec mysteries trilogy Obsidian & Blood back-to-back in a single week. The trilogy was my first proper taste of non-Anglophone fantasy, and he experience was both surreal and […]

Future’s End: Justice League and Justice League United (Comics Review)

When I started reading Justice League back in 2012, it was one of my favourite titles from DC. Even through all of Trinity War and then Forever Evil, it was a title that I could rely on to be a damn good read, though there were occasional hiccups. Post-Forever Evil however, my interest in it […]

Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (Comics Review)

Last week saw the beginning of the big Spider-Man oriented crossover event Spider-Verse as we began to get the prequel stories in the form of the Edge of Spider-Verse mini-series. The first issue focused on Spider-Man Noir and it was a pretty good issue all things told. It introduced me to Spider-Man in a way […]

Witchblade Volume 1 (Graphic Novel Review)

In the last couple years Top Cow’s Witchblade IP has become one of my favourite reads in comics. Whether it is Witchblade/Sara Pezzini in the pages of Artifacts or Witchblade or in any crossovers here and there, I’ve always loved her as a character. Sara Pezzini to me is one of the best female characters […]

Arrow Season 2.5 #2 (Comics Review)

DC Comics kicked off its Arrow Season 2.5 digital-first series week before last, which bridges the gap between the second and (upcoming) third seasons of its hit television show Arrow, based on its Green Arrow comics. The first issue was an absolute kicker, combining the best of the show with some really big action scenes […]

Comics Picks For 10.09.2014

With everything going on right now, I had doubts whether I’d be able to get through many comics this week but it seems that this was indeed the week where I surprised myself in a big way. Not only did I catch up on quite a few new titles, but I also managed to read […]

He Drank, And Saw The Spider by Alex Bledsoe by Alex Bledsoe (Book Review)

Following on after reading Wake of The Bloody Angel in 2012, I wanted to read the other Eddie LaCrosse novels soon after but as with many other such endeavours, nothing happened, and I didn’t read one until late last year, when the new novel came out. He Drank, And Saw The Spider is a much […]

Wake of The Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe (Book Review)

As I’ve said elsewhere before, 2012 was the big year for me, when I branched out into all sorts of different genres and subgenres. One of these was nautical fantasy and even then a more low-brow kind of nautical fantasy at that. Wake of the Bloody Angel was my first book by Alex Bledsoe and […]

The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu (Book Review)

Bradley P. Beaulieu’s Lays of Anuskaya trilogy went on my “25 Series To Read In 2013” largely because of my Twitter interactions with the author at the time and because of the positive buzz I saw about his books as I made more and more friends in the reviews-sphere. Russian fantasy? Sure. Give me more. […]