RUST: SECRETS OF THE CELL

by | Mar 28, 2013 | Comics, Reviews

RUST: SECRETS OF THE CELL By Royden Lepp Archaia   There have been few things I have waited for as anxiously as I did the sequel to RUST.  Often times, when I build things up in my mind as much as I did this volume, I am crushingly disappointed.  The art might...

KILL SHAKESPEARE from IDW

by | Mar 28, 2013 | Comics, Reviews

Kill Shakespeare IDW KILL SHAKESPEARE: THE TIDE OF BLOOD Pop quiz, fanboy. What’s the best part of being a part of the comic book community? Hollywood parties? Fast cars? Faster women? All good guesses, to be sure. But interacting with other like-minded readers means...

Behind The Book: CATCHING WATER IN A NET

by | Mar 27, 2013 | Features

The summer of 2000 found this Italian-Russian Brooklyn boy working in an office in Columbia, South Carolina. A fish out of water. In the evenings I would write, working on my first full length novel. And then one day it was complete. Now what? It was literally...

Five Books that Changed My Life: Lisa Ballantyne

by | Mar 27, 2013 | Books

Five Books that Changed My Life – Lisa Ballantyne Choosing five books seems an easy task until you realize that so many books have been inspirational and life-changing, particularly at different stages in life. After much agonizing before my bookcase, I have narrowed...

Crime fiction releases for April

by | Mar 27, 2013 | Books, News

Editor’s note: This is not meant to suggest that this is complete list, but rather a tool to be used to help plan out your next fix for your reading habit. Title: Author Publisher Name List Price PubDate Format Description Category Description Cat’s Claw Albert,...

Fabletown and Beyond – FABLESCON

by | Mar 27, 2013 | Comics, Events

When Dan and I heard about the inaugural FablesTown and Beyond Convention being held in Rochester, MN, we thought, “A brand new comic con with A-List talent, 60 miles south of our backyard? We are so there!” This new comic con was celebrating mythic fiction in comics,...

SNAPSHOT – by Andy Diggle and Jock

by | Mar 26, 2013 | Comics, Reviews

I just read issues one and two of a great new crime comic by Andy Diggle and Jock, author and artist respectively. Set in San Francisco we open on a kid on a bike tooling around Golden gate park on his way to work. Along the way he finds a cell phone, drops it in his...