Tag: fiction
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Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – A Book Review
Originally published in the early Nineties, Black Orchid is an early work of Neil Gaiman. It debuted long before his rise to fame as a novelist, a children’s author, and a luminary within the comic book industry. True to form, I just now read it in the year 2014. Decades later, Black Orchid still impressed…
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The Truth Is a Cave In the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman and Eddie Campbell – A Book Review
Written by the renowned Neil Gaiman, this small picture book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. Perhaps picture book is too simple a phrase, for that conjures up something meant for a child, which this book clearly is not. At seventy-three pages, I read this tale in less than an hour. Every page is comprised…
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – A Book Review
I promise to reveal nothing secretive about this book during my review, for to give away even a single detail will likely ruin the experience as a whole to the new reader. I will simply say this: the first half of the book is utter genius. I can’t recall of late a time I found…
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Forever Evil by Geoff Johns and David Finch – A Book Review
This book is the culmination of years’ worth of storytelling. Truly, it is the result of multiple plots nurtured since The New 52’s dawn. Did it satisfy? Yes. Without spoiling too much, the events of Trinity War led to Forever Evil, which means that the Justice Leagues are incapacitated. Save Batman and Catwoman, they are…