The Stand: Captain Trips The first five issues in Marvel’s adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel The Stand, are contained within the first collection, Captain Trips. A virus is let loose from a top secret government facility causing people to exhibit symptoms in line with the flu. However, this strain is 100% fatal. Following the…
The Art & Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy is not only my favorite comic book trilogy of all time, it’s easily my favorite movie trilogy of all time. When I heard that a book was being released that chronicled the making of all 3 films, I jumped at the chance to…
Stephen King’s The Stand I can’t stress to you how much I loved this book. I know that it’s pretty much the norm to consider this King’s finest effort..BUT there’s a reason for that. Now, granted, I haven’t read anywhere near his full catalogue but I have this feeling that I may not like anything…
Garth Ennis’s Preacher In Until The End of the World, we learn a great deal more about the past of both Jesse and Tulip. Both are placed in a position where escape seems unlikely, therefore, what better time to unburden their past to one another? Ennis also gives a little more of an explanation to why…
Wingfield’s Night Frost All hell has broken loose within the Denton Police Department as a flu epidemic rips through the staff. A few dedicated employees, who at this point would much rather be sick, are stuck working double and sometimes triple shifts! As that old cliche goes, “Crime Never Sleeps” and Detective Frost, coupled with…
Garth Ennis’s Preacher This was probably the easiest five stars I’ve handed out to a comic collection. From the insane violence combined with the wildly original story, the first volume of Preacher did exactly what it was supposed to do: hook me and leave me begging for more.Following it’s unexpected escape, the dangerous offspring of an Angel and a…
John Connolly’s The Wrath of Angels I shouldn’t even have this book! Connolly’s North American publisher is waiting until January 01st, 2013 to release it in my neck of the woods and seeing as how the world is supposed to end on December 22nd, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have been able to ever…
Don Winslow’s The Kings of Cool Honestly, after reading this, I can’t believe this book was anywhere near as good as it was. In fact, it was down right awesome. Savages is a tremendous novel. It was my first exposure to Winslow and I immediately fell for his razor sharp prose. It’s just so.. cool.…
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