Gotham Central Vol 3: On The Freak Beat I honestly didn’t expect to love this series as much as I did when I started it. The fact that you’re asking me to read about Gotham but you’re not going to give a whole lot of love to The Dark Knight himself? Blasphemy! Turns out when…
Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars The Dog Stars is a strange book in the sense that it has absolutely no right to be as good as it is. Not taking anything away from Peter Heller, the man is an accomplished non-fiction writer with countless best sellers. It’s just the fact that this is his first…
Stephen King’s The Gunslinger In the last 3 years, I’ve begun to read pretty much constantly. I’ve always got one or two novels on the go but recently, I’ve realized that I had never read anything written by Stephen King. On a recommendation from the internetz, I decided to give the Dark Tower series a…
Darwyn Cooke’s Batman: Ego Never having read Richard Stark’s Parker series, I picked up Darwyn Cooke’s graphic novel adaptations. The stories themselves were awesome but what had originally grabbed me was Cooke’s unique style. When I finished, I was salivating for more. Imagine how happy I was to find out he did a few runs…
Richard Stark/Darwyn Cooke’s Parker Man, was this all kinds of awesome.Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by the late Richard Stark (Donald Westlake), artist Darwyn Cooke adapted it to the graphic novel medium. Parker, set up by a desperate man in need of paying off some sketchy loans, seemingly returns from the dead…
Josh Bazell’s Beat The Reaper In Beat The Reaper, Bazell presents us with Peter Brown, a medical resident who years ago, entered into the witness protection program; as he used to be a contract killer for the mob. In exchange for his cooperation with the police some time ago, Brown was given a new life…
Clevenger’s The Contortionist’s Handbook When I was first recommended this book, I had no idea what to expect. For whatever reason, I was mainly going by the cover art and relying on that to tell me what this book was mainly about. A contortionist. Wrong. Never judge a book by it’s cover folks.The book is…
Justin Cronin’s The Passage I take in book related podcasts, spend a lot of time on GoodReads.com and browse the web for upcoming releases that are setting the book industry ON FIRE. Therefore, I’m bound to be sucked into the hype machine that can surround some big releases. A while back, I took in the…
Every Read Thing 