I first encountered Paul Kearney in the most tragic way possible: I began his Sea Beggars trilogy. Oh, the trilogy itself isn’t any more tragic than any other quality fantasy novel. The tragedy is that, because of some shadowy dispute with the publisher, the third book doesn’t exist. It will probably never come out. It’s …
Justice League #49 (Darkseid War Part 9) (DC Comics) Writer: Geoff Johns Pencils: Jason Fabok First Impressions: Geoff Johns certainly knows how to write a climax. For the last 4 issues, Justice league has been building to the end of Darkseid War, and there’s still another 4 issues to go. That said, Johns isn’t coming from a …
Lin wakes up in a pile of freshly murdered bodies, with a madman screeching overhead and an army on the way and magic all around and gems—which are different from Jewels—and magic threatening everyone sanity and oh my! There’s nothing wrong with dumping someone in the middle of a narrative, but it takes a judicious …
DC Rebirth is a new DC Comics wide event that has been touted as both the death knell and the saving grace for DC Comics. After the incredibly divisive New 52 event spinning out of Flashpoint, many readers, reviewers, and fans in general wondered how long it would be before there was yet another reboot. …
Continuing along the path that her first book, The Fire Sermon, laid out, Map of Bones is another measured elegy for a world in ruins. Atomic detonations blanketed the world in cold and ignorance, and the survivors learned to fear anything to do with the blasts. Technology. The past. Each other. A quirk of the …
Lucas Knight doesn’t have any shining armor. He’s the spoiled child of a wealthy white developer in Puerto Rico, and the most good he’s done is all in his head. He wishes things were different—that his father wasn’t a sneering aristocrat, that his Puerto Rican neighbors would actually accept him, that his mother hadn’t left—but …
1. Candy (Mian Mian) – This is one of my all-time favorite books. A weird memoir-esque take on growing up in the rebel youth culture of the 90s in China, Mian Mian catalogs drugs, sex, and rock ‘n’ roll with both poetic grace and furious honesty. It’s an almost wistful look at the miseries of …
Welcome to GeeklyInc.’s comic book roundup for the week of April 20th! Each week we’ll be taking a look at some of the latest releases and giving you our thoughts on them. Keep reading to find out how this week’s comics stacked up: Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion #4 (DC Comics) Writer: Tom Taylor Pencils: …
Our word disaster comes from the Greek meaning “bad star.” And if one bad star portends calamity, imagine a whole sky of them. Mayavati doesn’t have to. She is born with the most malignant horoscope the court has ever seen, and everyone from her father, the Raja, to the lowest girl in the harem knows …
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel is the definition of compulsively readable. I snuck peeks at work, I held it in one hand while holding my toothbrush in the other, and if it had not been on my kindle, I would have propped it up within eyeball-reach of the shower. It’s engrossing. It’s fantastic. It’s a …