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Robert Kirkman has created another, if somewhat unrecognized, masterpiece. With the popularity of zombies rising (but did it really ever go away?) of course his Walking Dead series has gained much critical acclaim and popularity. There is even a mini series in the works. However, while much deserved, Walking Dead’s success has overshadowed Kirkman’s Invincible,… [Continue Reading]
Christian Gossett’s Red Star reminds me why I got into graphic novels in the first place: the use of a visual medium to relay a world that is slightly different—but somehow a little more poignantly true—than our own. Like Civil War: Iron Man or Watchmen, Red Star conveys a wistful, almost sorrowful view of what… [Continue Reading]
There has been a recent resurgence of a lot of common themes in science fiction and horror lately: vampires, zombies, werewolves, and so on. However, the most exciting resurgence, albeit a small one—but here’s hoping, is one of setting. I am, of course, talking about steampunk, because what could possibly be better than dark and gritty… [Continue Reading]
There is nothing like being treated like crap, unwanted darkly-romantic advances, and creepy mind games to make a scholarly high school girl weak in the knees. Or so it would seem. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick was released last month and is quickly—and to be honest, expectedly—becoming a top seller in YA. In my local bookstore,… [Continue Reading]
Oh, Twilight, thankfully you cannot last forever. But your eventual decline and inevitable end will leave a deep hole in many a teenaged and menopausal heart. What can it be filled with? It’s obvious that there is no lack of dramatic, romantic, and vampiric YA Lit being puked into the market but it is hard to… [Continue Reading]
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