A Day In The Stacks (Review Pile Redux)
Picking up where we left off last time, going through the pile of great books I’ve acquired over the last few weeks… * Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale by Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose. The blurb:...
View ArticleLost Weekend in the Stacks
I never quite get caught up with the books around here. I swear to God, they just show up and stick to us, like lint in a dryer. Review copies. Pull-list stuff. Research for things I’m writing. Friends...
View ArticleHousebound on a Blustery Day
Once again, my town is gripped with panic at the thought of experiencing… Weather. Not snow panic this time– just wind. We’re having what Winnie the Pooh refers to as a “blustery day.” The photo above...
View ArticleSaturday In The Stacks, DC Edition
I am rude about a lot of the new books DC’s been putting out lately. I’ll own it. But it doesn’t mean I don’t want to like them. I bought two new trade collections from DC this week, in fact, and one...
View ArticleWeekend with the Review Pile (Videogames Edition)
Somehow, I wound up with a big stack of books and comics based on videogames here next to my desk and today I’m going to try and get through as many of them as I can. So it’s capsule review time again....
View ArticleDecember Cross-Hatchings… In the Stacks
We have this annual holiday ritual in our household. Because we are employed by organizations that work with juveniles– I teach in public school, Julie’s a counselor at a youth rehab– my wife and I are...
View ArticleAnother Weekend in the Stacks
My town is going nuts this weekend. Apparently there’s some sort of impending sporting event that has sent Seattle residents into a spiral of crazy. Seriously, it’s a lot like that old episode of Star...
View ArticleBack in the Stacks on Saturday
Wrapping up the capsule reviews from last week. Some superhero books, some fantasy, some western, and some oddball humor, even. * Conan: The Nightmare of the Shallows by Brian Wood, Davide Gianfelice,...
View ArticleSunday’s Sickbed Reviews
We are still recovering from Emerald City Con here– that show clobbered us. On top of the sheer exhaustion we came down with a raging case of post-con crud (thankfully, that’s all it was; there was a...
View ArticleEaster Sunday in the Stacks
Still shaking off our convention colds and dealing with other issues, so it’s capsule reviews this week. These are some books of note that have crossed my path in the last month or so. Some comics,...
View ArticleSaturday in the Stacks With a Bunch of Savages
Barbarians. Jungle Lords. Those guys. It could be the time of year, I suppose. Late May and early June is when my Cartooning and Young Authors classes are putting together their final books of the...
View ArticleFriday by Gaslight
So this week I got to see the fulfillment of a (nearly) lifelong ambition. The only reason I say “nearly” is because I didn’t know there were such things as Sherlock Holmes pastiches until Nicholas...
View ArticleFourth of July Weekend with the Review Pile
I’m happy to be a U.S. citizen and everything that goes with it. I’m as patriotic as anyone, really. But nevertheless, I have to own up… I loathe the Fourth of July. Always have. As holidays go, this...
View ArticleWeekend with the Review Pile, Redux
Just trying to clean up the rest of the stuff from my to-review pile. Post-atomic horror, apes, steampunk cowboy vampires, and a few cats and dogs. No, really. But first, the answer to a question I’ve...
View ArticleAnother Day in the Stacks– Local Edition
Well, internet-local, anyway. I’m not really a reviewer, certainly not in the sense that our other Greg or Kelly are. Nevertheless, I still get a fair number of emails and review PDFs from small-press...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Weekend In the Stacks
There is a large sporting event taking place tomorrow that has my hometown of Seattle in a frenzy not unlike the one in the old Star Trek episode “Return of the Archons.” You know, where the clock...
View ArticleThe Week’s Commute… In The Stacks
By the time you read this, we’ll be on the road again. With Julie now established in her new job and our work schedules actually aligned for the first time in about five years, the holiday weekend– all...
View ArticleHousebound Weekend In The Stacks
My various social media feeds are blowing up with news from all fronts; the outpouring of promotional clips and announcements from Comic-Con International, and closer to home, a bunch of hilarious...
View ArticleAnother Super Bowl Weekend In The Stacks
As I have done since I was but a lad, instead of getting interested in sporting events, I am actively avoiding them by hiding out in the library. Only now I’m an adult and it’s the library I’ve built...
View ArticleAnother Day In The Stacks- Just the FAQs Edition
For whatever reason, people ask me stuff. I used to think it was my glasses; I had that whole Roddy McDowall-as-the-Bookworm thing going on, although I suspect I’m roughly two and a half Roddys in...
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