by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 23, 2007 | Comics
RatingsStory: How well the issue worked as a story of its own.Art: How well the art fit the particular story being told. Not necessarily a measure of how “good” the art was.Fun: An incredibly subjective measure of the number of surprises in any given...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 22, 2007 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
When I heard that Jeff Lindsay’s character Dexter was going to become a series for Showtime, I was skeptical. Many of the things that made the novels so alluring have the potential to turn off many potential viewers. A main character that is an unfeeling serial killer...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2007 | Comics
Last year at Bouchercon, The World Mystery Convention I moderated a panel of mystery writers who also write comics. David Morrell, Denise Mina, Gary Phillips and Max Allan Collins.During the course of the panel the question of who else might do comics and I said that...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2007 | Features
Last year at Bouchercon, The World Mystery Convention I moderated a panel of mystery writers who also write comics. David Morrell, Denise Mina, Gary Phillips and Max Allan Collins.During the course of the panel the question of who else might do comics and I said that...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Dexter: The Complete First Season (2006) Four-disc set with 12 episodes, $39.98. Extras: Two commentaties by the cast, “The Academy of Blood: A Killer Course” featurette. (Paramount).Order Dexter: Complete First season from Amazon.This is, quite simply, a...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 20, 2007 | Films
A while back, I posted about Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese reteaming for the ninth time for Frankie Machine.First, thanks to Dark Horizons for pointing this out:Collider.com is reporting that they have it from a reliable source that Oscar-winning director Martin...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 20, 2007 | Reviews
The last few weeks I’ve read quite a few trades. Here’s the best of the bunch in alphabetical order. I’ll have another in a few days as I’m still working through my stack from Wizard World Chicago.100 Bullets: Once Upon A CrimeVolume 11Brian...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 20, 2007 | Features
I’m still trying to work out the format for these posts. So far the plan is to update on Thursday with reviews of new books, and on Monday with “something else.” For my first “something else”, I’d like to share my love for a book...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 19, 2007 | Books
PATRIOT ACTSGreg RuckaAugust 28th, 2007BantamGreg Rucka’s seminal hero, Atticus Kodiak has been THE action hero in thrillers for over a decade. Kodiak took the mantle from such characters as Smiley and Bourne at the pen of one of fiction’s finest storytellers with...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 18, 2007 | TV
HBO has announced that it has purchased True Blood. Based the “Southern Vampire” novels by Charlaine Harris (author of seventeen mysteries as well as the Sookie books), the series is set in Louisiana. In this series, vampires generally live off of synthetic blood and...
