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SF and fantasy fiction fan. Lost my dad and sister to cancer so want to support this cause

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A new way into Batman comics

Absolute Batman 1-6 by Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta

May 13, 2025 by kittenkong42 1 Comment

Last year Wayne Family Adventures got me back into DC Comics and then I heard about the ‘Absolute’ universe which seemed a good entry point back into actual monthly comics. What’s the Absolute Universe? Having now read back there was a run of comics called Absolute Power which led to a finale in which Darkseid gained control over a new universe – an Elseworld – shared by its heroes. It’s a bleaker, darker, world in which our known heroes have new origins that have removed […]

Filed Under: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Absolute Universe, Batman, DC Comics, Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta

kittenkong42's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Absolute Universe, Batman, DC Comics, Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta ·
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Cornwall – the unchanging landscape

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

April 1, 2025 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

Many years ago I wrote a review for The Dark is Rising which is the 2nd book in the sequence of the same name by Susan Cooper. This book is the first in the sequence but as I recommended then often better to be read second. I reread this on a recent holiday to Cornwall because in visiting the Cornish fishing villages/towns I immediately felt that sense of place I have with this book. If The Dark is Rising is a book that takes you […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: #fantasy, Arthurian legend, british fantasy, children's fantasy, Susan Cooper

kittenkong42's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: #fantasy, Arthurian legend, british fantasy, children's fantasy, Susan Cooper ·
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Less the colour of magic, more the shades

Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan

March 7, 2025 by kittenkong42 1 Comment

Over a year ago now I signed up for a subscription to Illumicrate. Each month I get sent a box filled with beautiful hardback book in the fantasy / science fiction category normally with edge printing and specially done covers and end-pieces, often signed. In addition you get 4 or 5 ‘goodies’ that can be anything from a bookmark to a large fleece throw. Basically it’s a great deal and the only problem was my failure to get my act together and read the damn […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured Tagged With: illumicrate, Kate Dylan

kittenkong42's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured · Tags: illumicrate, Kate Dylan ·
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Cover of graphic novel Wayne Family Adventures Volume 2

BatFamily Therapy

Wayne Family Adventures Volume 1 by CRC Payne & Starbite

Wayne Family Adventures Volume 2 by CRC Payne & Starbite

October 31, 2024 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

Introduction I have been a fan of Batman as a character since I was a teenager. Whilst I never bought comics every week, I did have graphic novels and some collections. I now want to apologise for it but I did vote in favour of Jason Todd being killed in Death in the Family (I am so sorry Jason, you deserved better!). I’d drifted away a bit but I started seeing a lot of cute Bat Family posts on Tumblr from this webtoon called Wayne […]

Filed Under: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: CRC Payne & Starbite

kittenkong42's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: CRC Payne & Starbite ·
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A Winter’s Tale from the Rivers of London

Winter's Gift by Ben Aaronovitch

August 4, 2024 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

Winter’s Gift is the most recent novella in the ongoing River’s of London series by Ben Aaronovitch and the subject actually came as a surprise to me when I got the book. When you have a character in the series called Tobias Winter (a German police officer) then an assumption that this is one of his books seemed logical, instead this is set in the US and features FBI agent Kimberley Reynolds. Rewinding for a Rivers of London recap: magic is real, gods exist and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, PC Grant Novella, Rivers of London, Urban Fantasy

kittenkong42's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, PC Grant Novella, Rivers of London, Urban Fantasy ·
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Godzilla movie adaptation book cover

Go, Go, Godzilla

Godzilla: The Official Movie adaptation by Greg Cox

May 16, 2023 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

I’m a fan of Kaiju in general, I absolutely love Pacific Rim and hated the western world’s first attempts at Godzilla movies (they were not good). But they tried again back in 2014 and I gave it a shot at the cinema because Ken Watanabe and it seemed a bit more ‘accurate’ to my image of the Big Guy. As a movie it wasn’t perfect and characterisation felt a bit flat so when I did a rewatch over New Year I was steered in the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: CBR15Passport, Godzilla, Greg Cox, movie novelization

kittenkong42's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: CBR15Passport, Godzilla, Greg Cox, movie novelization ·
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