It’s no secret, I loves me some Star Trek. The movies, the TV shows, and the comics? All of them I regard with deep affection. The novels though? I’m crazy for the novels. I’ve not read all of them. Hell, I doubt I’ve even read most of them. That would be a full time job. […]
Of the many laudable aspects of the Memorial Day Weekend – time with friends and family, BBQ, swimming in the pool, beer – my absolute favorite is the Half Price Books 20% off sale. During the sale, they provide an additional 20% off their everyday half-off prices on every item in the store. It’s a […]
Our beloved Guillermo del Toro (he is pretty damn cool, isn’t he?) and author Chuck Hogan have put together a tale to keep us up at nights! It’s always pleasant to see del Toro get back to his horror roots … it’s been a bit long since he’s done a straight horror film and, with […]
One of the finest, most horrific books I read last year was Professor Kim Paffenroth’s Dying to Live: Life Among the Undead. It was a wonderful experience reading that story, so I was excited to find Paffenroth has written a sequel to it, Dying to Live: Life Sentence. I haven’t had a chance to read […]
Brian Jacques, a British born author went a different way. Showing propensity as a writer at the age of ten with a story even his teachers didn’t believe he could have written, he created a world set in medieval times of a mouse named Matthias and his quest for a sword. Redwall was published in […]
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 2nd.
I know it may be a little odd to see a review of a children’s novel here on IoM. Still, when said children’s book involves a character slicing off his own arm with a scythe, people being turned inside out in a ball of “pulverized bone and shredded flesh,” and an-all out battle between good […]
So, back in February, I professed my love for Skulduggery Pleasant, the series of novels about the skeleton detective and his teenage sidekick, Valkyrie Cain. I also explained my frustration that the book was due out in April overseas, but wouldn’t see the light of day in the US until August. Well, as it turns […]
I’m a big fan of Skulduggery Pleasant. After only two books in the series have been released (the last one in April of 2008), I’ve been anxiously awaiting the next tale of the skeleton detective and his plucky teenage sidekick, Valkyrie Cain, as they try to thwart Lovecraftian monsters from invading our world. So every […]