Shelf Life: August 2013
Brief snippets of opinion and a too-long list. This month’s themes? Sex and writing, apparently.
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Shelf Life: July 2013
It’s summer. Traditionally a time for beach reading, fluff reading, right? This is how I’m justifying all the comics and manga to myself, anyway. Judge ye not, etc. 87. Spike: Asylum, by Brian Lynch (IDW Publishing, 2007) Brian Lynch has a terrible habit of over-explaining things both within the comics themselves, and then going over …
Shelf Life: June 2013
Another month, another eclectic mix. 74. In Search of Duende, by Federico García Lorca (New Directions, 2010) A combination of poetry, and essays which felt a bit over my head. This probably shouldn’t have been my first introduction to Lorca. 75. Gwendolyn MacEwan, Vol 2, by Gwendolyn MacEwan (Exile Editions, 2001) This series of short, …
Shelf Life: May 2013
TCAF was in May, and I came out of it with a few comics, and a desire to read lots more. 61. Spike: The Complete Series, by Brian Lynch (IDW Publishing, 2012) While Spike was my favourite character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series), he’s lost something in the comic. Lynch seems intent …