So it’s gone a bit quiet here again. No good reason just been busy at work and haven’t been reading any comics lately. Not that I don’t have a lot to read. Aside from my big stack of unread books at home I have also been taking advantage of the… Continue reading
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately – sorry about that. Extended holidays and a touch of flu have meant that I have not been reading much in the way of comics recently – currently I am enjoying the the excellent Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks. Anyway the… Continue reading
Quote: “If you’ll look again at any given Fables cover … in addition to being a compelling illustration that makes you want to read the story inside, it’s a story in itself.” Something a little different this time. This is a beautiful oversized, hardback book collecting James Jean’s… Continue reading
A beautiful book from Fables cover artist James Jean that is composed entirely of wordless illustrations. The book’s panels are concertinaed together to form a continuous whole. Within this structure are interweaved two distinct fantastical landscapes – a seascape and a strange procession across a weird landscape. The book allows… Continue reading
Quote: “Hope you don’t mind, Goblin, but I brought some of my buddies along.” This book collects the five issue mini-series and was written by Mark Waid and Tom Peyer. I know Waid best from the Kingdom Come mini-series but he has had runs on other DC titles… Continue reading
It’s been a long time since the middle of June when I started reading the books in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series but today I finally finished A Dance with Dragons. My mind is still spinning with all the twists and turns introduced during the… Continue reading
As the summer feels like it is drawing to a premature close here so my summer reading of this massive series is drawing to a close (even if the series itself is still a few books away from completion). After the major events in the third book, A Storm of… Continue reading
Still not reading very much in the way of comic books but have read another two books – strictly one and a half as book 3 is in two parts – of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Book 2 was a bit strange in that I was… Continue reading
Since I buy trade paperback collections of comics much more than individual issues these days, I am starting to amass quite a collection. So I was thinking that I need to find some way of easily cataloguing them so I know what I have as some are on bookshelves but… Continue reading
So I have just finished A Game of Thrones and enjoyed it very much. It probably helped that the TV adaptation was so good in the first place and made me want to read the book. As with any adaption there are going to be differences between the book and… Continue reading
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