Wow, there were some seriously freaky beasties and baddies in the 5th installment of the Dresden Files. We’re used to Harry having to battle the weird and supernatural, but this stuff was really ratcheting things up a notch (or five). Harry has a job, a rather big one: find the stolen Shroud of Turin. Yeah that one. Naturally, the Vatican wants it back, they’ve traced it to Chicago and they reluctantly ask for Harry’s expertise. Then Susan appears. It’s been a long time since they’ve seen […]
Dude, you have balls of solid adamantium
It’s 2044 and the world is a mess. Wars, famine, unrest, depleted resources, you know the usual dystopian societal and geopolitical ills. In this world, jobs and opportunities are scarce, resources even more so. It’s a hard, ugly life for the majority of people. The bright spot is OASIS, a virtual world that everyone, and I mean everyone, is a part of. Just to participate is free to all. It’s a gigantic, global virtual world where you can be whatever you want to be, your avatar is everything. You […]
Taste this, bitch
Alright, not that I didn’t trust those fellow Cannonballers who said this series really hits it’s stride with this book, but Hell’s bells! I guess I wasn’t truly prepared for the balls-out thrill ride that this installment turned out to be. And that’s with all the machinations of the White Council and it’s battle with the Red Court, as well as the Faerie with it’s Winter Queen and Summer Queen and attendant allies and enemies. I seriously needed a scorecard at times. But it wasn’t all politics and exposition […]
Because really, some people just deserve to be eaten by zombies
This delightful little book from Slave Labor Graphics, under the aegis of the mysterious Data Analysis Keep, features 17-year-old Agnes Quill, a detective for the supernatural world. When she was 7, both of her parents succumbed to an outbreak of influenza. At their funeral, the spirit of her grandfather appeared to her and told her of her legacy: she has the ability to see and communicate with spirits. Oh, and that she inherited a castle in the heart of the Victorian city known as Legerdemain. […]
Now I’m gonna learn you boys a thing or two about broken bones and internal bleeding
If it hadn’t been for that unexpected herd of migrating orangutans that mysteriously burst into flames, he would’ve got us last Wednesday! C’mon, how can you not love a comic that has dialogue like that? In this installment of The Goon, there is the story of when the Goon and Franky met, an adventure featuring a cannibal Hobo King who looks and mumbles like Bob Dylan, a crazed pie-eating ape and a mad scientist with a killer robot. Interspersed throughout are gag ads and at […]
I guess being dead gives you a different perspective on life
And the Harry Dresden binge continues. Other readers on this site have made it known that the series gets better starting with book four and I don’t doubt that. Despite my impatience with Susan (when did she become the overdone girlfriend-slash-horror-movie-twit?) this book got me deeper into the whole mythos and seems to be setting things up for books and books to come. There is a a lot more going on with the Nevernever, not the least of which is Harry’s Godmother, Leanansidhe. There is some rich territory […]
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