Sounds interesting and possibly terrifying. I got A Dark Matter by Peter Staub and a spattering of Uncanny X-man.
I’m a huge fan of the Crash Test Dummies. I don’t know anything about the Moon Prince Graphic Novel, but now I want to read it. #music #comics
Darwyn Cooke is one of my favorite cartoonists. His Parker adaptations are kinda perfect books for me. I adore Stark and Cooke’s minimalistic, design heavy, expertly acted cartooning is a rad fit.
Even though I work in comix, I’ve never been a big superhero cat so New Frontier just always existed in my peripheral. But with DC releasing these pocket size books for $10, I picked up Cooke’s Catwoman and New Frontier. I really liked Catwoman, though I imagine adding Brubaker helped, and it was a great time for the price.
I’ve only just started New Frontier and even though I respect the decision to do the wider 3 panel setups for the pages, I feel like I’m missing out on one of Cooke’s biggest strenghts - his layouts.
Don’t get me wrong, the composition in those panels is killer and better than most comix. But I really adore the way Cooke would lead an eye or break a panel on a full page. There are some changes to the formula here and there in New Frontier but overall, so far at least (only one book in), I do find myself missing the more pushing aspects of Cooke’s normal work.
Those new digest DC comics are great, and I hear they’re selling like crazy.
That’s such a beautiful cover!
Thanks! The wear on the cover and toning of the pages really adds something to the reading experience. It feels appropriate for the content so far.
Really great book. So interesting.
I usually read a short story in between novels. For short stories I’m working my way through the Galancz Complete Chronicles of Conan, which has the original unedited stories in publication order. I’m up to story 10 - The Devil in Iron. This was my least favorite so far. Still entertaining but plot details seemed missing. Seems like REH may have rushed this one.
Next up Shambleau by C.L. Moore. I thought this was a novel but it’s a collection of Jirel and Northwest Smith stories.
CL’s one of my FAVES. Have fun with it!
Just got the compiled version - first book of Lankhmar (books 1-4) which includes swords and deviltry, for £3.. Crazy bargain!
Excited to get into it. Was so tempted to get the version with this cover, just for the art alone… So sick! But the only copies I could find where in really bad condition so went for the compiled set instead, but the cover is much more dull.
Great price! Always liked the font on the originals. Classic S&S. I picked up the first 2 last year for a pretty good price but haven’t cracked em just yet
I just finished Carlucci’s Edge, book 2 of Richard Paul Russo’s “Carlucci Trilogy.” I think I may have heard about it via Daniel? but i am not 100% sure. It’s dystopian cyberpunk/punk detective/crime drama. A good contrast might be the Johnny Mnenomic movie, with its 1990’s, cocaine-fueled “Cyber-WOW!” whimsy. That is not this. Carlucci is noir, not neon.
Sadly there has not (in my view) ever been a printing of this book with an especially attractive or thematic cover. The audiobook cover below gets something right about atmosphere and takes an easy out to connect with the setting – the book mythologizes “The Tenderloin” in San Francisco.
In fact I transited 2025-2026 by means of a mini-Russo-fest, starting with the seemingly more familiar sci-fi book Ship of Fools, and then moving on into this trilogy (Destroying Angel first, then Carlucci’s Edge – and up next for me is #3, Carlucci’s Heart). I’d never read anything by Russo before that.
I confess I found Ship of Fools quite unrewarding – notwithstanding its Phillip K. Dick award. To me it seemed to meander and get lost in the minutiae of mundane life in a way that felt poorly fitted to the space/sci-fi “colony ship” setting and core plotline. There were some unique horror scenes as well, and I was really hoping they would add up to something, but I left disappointed. I just didn’t feel like the broader setting and plot-points were a very illuminating fit for the other themes of the book (free will, morality, faith, human society). Maybe I missed it.
But in the Carlucci stories, Russo’s blending of the futuristic and the mundane feels a lot more intelligible. There is still a tendency for chapters to meander a bit and get lost in minutiae. But the mundane matters here. It matters to Carlucci, the “good cop,” that technology has made the truly horrific become mundane. It matters that in this world, societal structures have festered and become so horrifically rigged against the innocent that the majority of characters we meet are everyday “criminals” who cannot for a moment be read as as ”villains.”
I liked the book. I wish its hellscapes would stay fiction.
I’m a pretty big fan of Russo. Wish he wrote more. I leally like the Carlucci books, and I did enjoy Ship of Fools a lot.
Just finished Blood Music by Greg Bear. Wow! This one was very interesting. It really takes some twists and turns, and very quickly. Sort of dark and uneasy as well, it will leave you thinking about it for a few days afterwards. Check it out!
Finished this quick little novella today. Fun premise with two more entries coming over the next two years I think.
Big mood story moreso than plot or character. Your mileage may vary on that but given the small amount of time it took to engage with, I thought it was pretty alright. I’ll at least check out the next one that is supposed to be coming out some time this year.
Alter your Video i bought some Books…
Well… i am still reading the DARKBLADE Series but when i am finished… maybe some Red Sonja is next…
Thank you for the recommendations.
Oh nice! I like those German versions! What’s the price like over there?