Comics
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The Walking Dead: Rebuilding Society
The Walking Dead: Volume 15 – We Find Ourselves In the last volume of this on-going series, Rick had an epiphany. He realized that fighting to survive wasn’t enough. Rebuilding society by creating a close-knit community was the only way to go. In this volume, the community is running really low on supplies and it…
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The Governor is a Monster
The Walking Dead: Volume 8 – Made to Suffer The Governor launches an all-out war against the small band of survivors who have built themselves a home and safe community in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. The band manages to hold their own for a little while, but there are casualties on both sides.…
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Today is Free Comic Book Day!
Every year, on the first Saturday of May, we celebrate Free Comic Book Day! It is a great event where comic book stores across the globe offer free books. There’s no catch either. You go in to the store and get to choose from a few dozen different books especially commissioned for this day. This…
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Daredevil Turns 50!
Daredevil #1.50 This a special single issue comic that celebrates the 50 Anniversary of my favourite superhero, Daredevil. The first story takes us to the future. Matt Murdoch is 50 years old and he has a nine year old son. His son has heightened senses as well but they pretty much over-whelm him. He is…
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Latest Graphic Novel Reads
Star Wars: Blood Ties – Jango and Boba Fett Boba Fett was the bounty hunter in Return of the Jedi that stole every scene he was in. He was such a cool looking character. Since the first trilogy was released all those years ago, we have found out a lot about his back story. We…
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A Safe Community? (Not in The Walking Dead)
If you are not familiar with The Walking Dead, it is a story about a band of survivors in a zombie apocalypse. It’s horrific, scary, and at the same time, a really compelling read. This three issue arc was really well done. It gave the survivors a brief respite from the horrors of the world.…
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My List of 2014 Reads
Two years ago I decided to start blogging about every single title that I read over the course of a year. I found that I really enjoyed having this reading log. I could look back on what I have read, track the kind of things that I choose to read, and share some great titles…
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The Walking Dead (Brief Respite)
The Walking Dead: Volume 10 – What We Become I have been reading this series courtesy of the public library. I should have read volume 8 and 9 next but I looked at the first few pages and realized that the Governor story had been completed and a new arc had started, so I didn’t…
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Awesome Christmas Presents
Santa was good to me this year. I got two T-shirts, a new pair of jeans, some time on my pay-as-you-go phone, and these goodies . . . I’ve wanted 10’s sonic screwdriver for some time now. I bought a customizable kit last year but none of them looked just like his. This one is…
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More Danger from the Living
The Walking Dead: Volume 6 – This Sorrowful Life Once again, this issue of the series deals more so with the violence between the survivors of the zombie apocalypse than between those of the living and the dead. But the stakes are just as high. This volume of the popular series is quite graphic…
