Archivist Wasp was one of my favorite books of 2015 and up there for one of my favorite new fantasy titles, period. It was such a rough, raw book, the literary equivalent of a rebel yell, and not just because it was a debut. Furious and dreamlike and achingly emotional, it was everything I never …
We are joined this week by Cody Boker from the S House Network to talk all about Deadpool. But not just any Deadpool, Cable & Deadpool. What do these two have in common? They’re both after the same virus that will lead to everyone on Earth looking like a member of the Blue Man Group. …
Bright We Burn (Kiersten White) – July 10 – WHY is this trilogy ending? I mean, I know it has to. It’s not a series. Also, it’s based on historical figures who are extremely dead. (Well, one of them is a reinterpretation of Vlad Tepes, basis for Dracula, so maybe it could go on a …
Sometimes, and not on purpose, a book will just migrate its way down my TBR pile. It’s inevitable, I suppose. There’s an endless supply of both shiny new titles and neglected classics, and I can only read so many books at a time. Fortunately and unfortunately, I got to Dread Nation before too much time …
On this very special episode of Inks & Issues, we are joined by Ben Stonick of Transformation Sequence to finally, after 31 episodes, cover a Spider-Man comic. Unfortunately Ben decided we needed to start at zero so that we would appreciate all other Spider-related comics in the future. Is the legendarily bad “One More Day” …
Eelyn is a warrior. Her father and best friend are warriors. Her mother and brother, before they were slain, were warriors. It’s in her blood and all around her, for everyone physically able to fight is bound to do so by tradition and faith. After all, their god Sigr has declared himself in perpetual war …
This was the first year I watched Eurovision, in no small part thanks to Catherynne Valente’s wonderful Space Opera. I think they owe her some royalties, or at least the chance to do publicity for them. If you’ve read anything by Valente, you already know how rad that would be. If you haven’t, Space Opera …
Perhaps you, the humble wizard, are deep within the stacks of the archives, but when it comes to those tomes on the arcane arts you’re having a hard time of it. You’ve been pouring over glyphs, runes, and cryptic dead languages trying to brush up on your school of magic. While you examine those dusty …
“It’s like Romeo and Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men with a little bit of Blade Runner cheering from the sidelines.” With a tagline like that, there was no way I wasn’t going to pick up Lifel1k3, even though the leetspeak title made me wince. But the problem with comparing yourself to an iconic work …
The Poppy War is the debut young adult novel written by R.F. Kuang, inspired and set in China’s 19th and early 20th century. War orphan Fang Runin, aka Rin, seeks to escape being married off to an older man for his influence on trade for her drug dealing adoptive parents. She spends two years preparing …