IT’S HERE! IT’S HERE!! IT’S FINALLY HERE!!! *Ahem* Apologies, but I have a lot of feelings about Neil Gaiman’s books, and it seems like this one was announced 742 years ago. However, I got my hands on it a week and half before the official release date, because I’m bullshit lucky and someone at my local bookstore put it on the shelves early. One of my favourite books in recent years was Philip Pullman’s retelling of some classic fairy tales, Fairy Tales from the Brothers […]
Look at that fluffy unicorn! It’s so fluffy, I could die!
Warning: DEFINITELY NSFW, and all of the spoilers. In keeping with tradition, I decided to start CBR9 off with a bang…or at least, a Tingle. As I’ve already covered 2 of author Chuck Tingle’s preferred 4 types of erotica (living objects and dinosaurs), I figured that it was time to grab this one by the horn. I swear this gets harder every year. …Dammit. What I mean is that these books are getting more and more difficult to swallow. OH FFS. Our story opens with “If you […]
Do you know the way through this labyrinth? No, I’m just a worm.
Considering how long it took me to finally read the first novel in the Cormoran Strike series, The Cuckoo’s Calling, I am attempting to make up for lost time by pretty much inhaling the next two books. The action starts a few months after the events of The Cuckoo’s Calling, and, due to all the publicity received, Strike is working steadily. Between digging up scandals for a tabloid reporter, tailing suspected cheaters, and basically doing bitch work for rich people, Strike gets a visit from […]
London Calling
I finally (finally) got around to reading the debut mystery novel of “Robert Galbraith”, now famously a pseudonym adopted by goddess divine J.K. Rowling. The Cuckoo’s Calling, the first entry in the Cormoran Strike series, was engrossing and wonderful, and I’m pretty much an idiot for waiting this long. The book starts with a brief prologue, with police making their way through a horde of journalists to the body of an apparent suicide victim; a famous and beautiful woman who has seemingly jumped from […]
She should go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
So, remember all that stuff I said in my review for Volume 1? About how awesome it was that you didn’t really have to know anything about the character going in, and that the story was totally self-contained? Forget all that. This volume was basically the opposite of that. The story starts with a brief flashback – a generic “years ago” in San Francisco – where our fearless Black Widow meets with Daredevil for a quick chat about right and wrong. Why is Daredevil […]
You’ve got red on you
Fresh off the high of watching Captain America: Civil War, and praying for Scarlett Johansson to get a solo Black Widow movie (seriously, she kicks so much ass), I decided to check out one of the lady’s solo titles. I have previously avoided most Avengers-related comics as I find them really difficult to jump into, with so many crossovers and characters that I end up spending more time Googling than I do reading. However, this story was completely stand-alone, requiring no previous knowledge of the […]