Year: 2008

in Opinions/Editorials

Knowing we had a baby on the way and I was taking a year off work to be a stay-at-home dad, I understood we had to start cutting back on nonessential purchases. Among those things I deemed unnecessary to buy were graphic novels. However, as a lover of the genre for over twenty-seven years, there…

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King – A Book Review

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Stephen King once again offers us a story with a famous author, Scott Landon, as the protagonist, only this time he’s dead. His wife, Lisey, still struggles to deal with his passing even as she fights to help her troubled sister immersed in a crisis. To top it all off, a deranged fan stalks Lisey…

That Old Ace In the Hole by Annie Proulx – A Book Review

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Proulx has once again given us a captivating story about the most mundane and unexceptional set of circumstances imaginable. In this story we have Bob Dollar, a young man who has lived much of his life without purpose, suddenly hired by Global Pork Rind to scout out possible hog farm locations in the Texas Panhandle. …

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon – A Book Review

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I truly enjoyed Haddon’s novel the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, so I had rather high hopes for his latest release. While entertaining, A Spot of Bother cannot compare to the originality of Haddon’s previous work. With a curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Haddon gave me something I’d never…

The Illusionist – A Movie Review

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Everything about this movie worked, and I am not exaggerating when I say that you should make it a priority to see it as soon as possible. Ed Norton stars as an illusionist, a man who makes the seemingly impossible possible. Jessica Biel is a duchess and childhood love interest who currently finds herself locked…

Hollywoodland – A Movie Review

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I’d heard this was a very good movie and, as it turns out, I heard right. If you’re not familiar with the story of George Reeves, he is the man who played Superman in the old television series. I mean, the OLD television series from the fifties. Well, anyway, Reeves supposedly died from a self-inflicted…

The Departed – A Movie Review

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My wife and I finally watched The Departed last night and all I can say is that it was an electrifying and outstanding movie. I initially was hesitant to watch it because I heard it was very violent, but the violence actually was neither terribly gratuitous nor gory. Still disturbing, mind you, but not in…

Stranger Than Fiction – A Movie Review

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I love metafiction when done correctly, and Stranger Than Fiction is a prime example of metafiction delivered well. Metafiction is when the story has some element that is acutely aware it is a story or else there may be a work of fiction within the work of fiction; in other words, it goes beyond the…

Justice, Volume I – A Graphic Novel Review

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