I’ve been looking forward to re-reading “American Gods” since the moment I finished it the first time around. And this first re-read is definitely not going to be the last. For me, this book is a joy and a delight. It’s imaginative. It’s forward-thinking. It’s honest about how we relate to one another and see-but-can’t-see each other. It works literally as well as as metaphor. It takes itself seriously enough to be perfectly constructed and pure in tone and style, but doesn’t take itself seriously at […]
Don’t let the colors fool you
ODY-C is based on Homer’s Odyssey in a world where Zeus has killed off most of the men. ODY-C is a genderbent interpretation that’s completely warped out of its own mind in a psychedelic sci-fi god-ruled outer space. I mean the whole thing is nuts. Crazy colors, and sexual innuendos all over the place; think women breaking down doors with giant phallos’ and vagina-like spaceships. But don’t let the colors fool you. This is not an explosion of a book, it’s a slow, heavy journey. […]
Technicolor Space Voyage
There’s some satisfying symmetry to reviewing a gender-bent, acid trip of a reworked classic and absolutely hating every second of it (see my review for Pussy, King of Pirates from earlier in the year) and reviewing a gender-bent, acid trip of a reworked classic and absolutely loving it (see my review of ODY-C, right here!). First off, the coloring and the artwork are dazzling and delightful. There is a full page panel of Zeus, in all her glory (oh, yeah, small plot detail, Zeus eradicates […]
Percy Jackson is missing, but here’s a new bunch of demi-god teens to hang out with instead
Jason has amnesia. He wakes up on a school bus on the way to the Grand Canyon with what appears to be his very confused girlfriend (Piper) and a bemused, slightly disbelieving best friend (Leo) who both seem very surprised that he can’t remember spending the last few months together at the “Wilderness School”, a boarding school for juvenile delinquents. Not that the field trip to the Canyon makes things better. One of the other school kids sprouts wings, and tries to kill Jason and […]
So a Cyclops and a Satyr Walk Into a Cave…
This was a book I finished a couple weeks ago, and when I sat down to finally write the review…I couldn’t remember anything that happened in the book! It took me trying to remember the ending, and then working backwards to piece together the rest of the story. Now, this could be my head cold of doom talking, but I think it just means the book wasn’t that memorable. It wasn’t bad, but any means, just not something that stuck with me.
What’s More Manly than a Manly Man? TWO Men! (So Said the Ancient Greeks)
Achilles: No wonder the sky is so gray today, bro. Patroclus: Why, bro? Achilles: Because all the blue is in your eyes. Patroclus: Bro. There are a number of different interpretations as to what the exact nature of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus was in Greek Mythology. I mean, we know that they loved each other. For real. But was it a brothers-in-arms kind of deal? Nah. It’s pretty widely accepted that they were in fact lovers. Yet Patroclus is often seen as little […]