And here we are, back for the third week of DC Comics’ big reboot rollout. We’ve had some good titles and some bad, some mediocre, and some that spectacularly failed. I ordered about 40 of the 52 in advance, going … Continue reading
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Welcome back for Week 2 of the New DC 52. Last time, I looked at the initial wave of offerings from DC’s rebooted line of comics, and found it to be fairly decent, if occasionally annoying and mostly unobjectionable. I … Continue reading
As a comic book fan of some little brain and great enthusiasm, it seems appropriate that I–like everyone else– review and comment upon DC Comics’ great, grand experiment to basically start over from scratch with their entire universe. 52 #1 … Continue reading
The August 2011 issue of Realms of Fantasy has arrived, and that means it’s time for a new column. In this issue, I covered the following YA SF/F books: Huntress, by Malinda Lo Eona, by Alison Goodman The Girl Who … Continue reading
Rosalinda Fitzroy has just woken up from sixty-two years in stasis, only to discover that everyone she knew is dead, and society has changed greatly. As the last member of a once-powerful family, she’ll inherit the world’s most powerful company … Continue reading
When Catlyn Youngblood and her brothers move to the tiny town of Lost Lake, Florida, she hopes that this will be the end of their constant moving for a while. Unfortunately, the siblings get a cool welcome from their new … Continue reading
The night Theia Alderson watches a burning man fall from the sky, her sheltered life is changed for good. Now she spends her days trying to understand the new boy in town, Haden, who adopts a much more capricious and … Continue reading
Alex has spent most of his seventeen years hunting angels, extra-dimensional energy vampires who feed from humans and leave illness in their wake. As the angels flood into our world, their influence rapidly grows, inspiring a new religion, with only … Continue reading
In search of a summer job, Kelsey Hayes takes a temporary position with a visiting circus, responsible for helping the animal trainer. She immediately bonds with Ren, an unusually intelligent white tiger. Soon, she learns that Ren is actually a … Continue reading
Filled with anger, obsessed with maintaining control, Melissa Miller cuts herself for a multitude of reasons. The object of scorn and derision and targeted by bullies, she’s the butt of a vicious prank which tips her over the edge, prompting … Continue reading