“But I know it’s not easy, or simple. I’m not sure anything is, now.” “You have no idea.” Keep reading for a review of Transformers #10 (2019).
“You will need all your wits, Desdemona Mannering, all your scimitar wiles, to bargain with Kalos Kantzaros in Breakers Beyond.” C.S.E. Cooney (author of The Bone Swans: Stories) returns with a brand new stand-alone novella, Desdemona and the Deep, set in the same world from her Dark Breakers series.
“Yes. Erm. Ms. Arkin.” He coughed. “I’m afraid you don’t have any magical infusion whatsoever. Your entire education here has been a huge mistake.” This is how nineteen-year-old Alison Arkin finds out that – despite what the recruiters told her – she doesn’t have magical powers. All she has is an (admittedly impressive) eidetic memory
I’m touring the black market, and you’re my fourth stop. I’m getting bored. So either you tell me you traded with that dead Voin, or I’ll see if I can put a you-shaped hole in this wall. Keep reading for a review of Transformers #9 (2019).
Dark Horse Books has been releasing a steady stream of stand-alone short stories by Neil Gaiman, each of them illustrated by a prominent artist. The latest one (due out on August 20th) manages to once again do the impossible: it takes a story that I already thought was perfect and makes it even better. Click
By an odd coincidence, all three of the Hugo-nominated novelettes I saved for last are about memory and death. Hard-hitting stuff here. They’re also about the stories we tell and why we tell them: to remember the past, to link us to each other, and to make us reach for something more than just survival.
Well, it happened. I knew I’d start to take the twice-monthly comics for granted, and this month we had to wait three weeks instead of two for an issue of Transformers. WHAT IS THIS THE STONE AGES? Kidding. Two comics a month must be a hell of a schedule to keep, I can wait three
“Dr. York. What does the upturn on that chart represent?” “That…that is when the oceans begin to boil.” Mary Robinette Kowal’s Hugo-nominated novel starts in a 1952 America that’s just slightly different from ours. Thomas E. Dewey defeated Harry S. Truman, and then gave famous rocket scientist (and former Nazi) Wernher von Braun the leeway
Tara McPherson has been a well-known artist for over a decade, but to the surprise of absolutely no one she didn’t hit my radar till fairly recently. (It’s like I live under a rock, seriously.) I’m trying to make up for lost time though, because her art is fascinating and lovely, and I love that