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Column: Comics Over Innsmouth: 20,000 Lovecrafts Under the Sea

  • March 15, 2012

By Lyndsey Holder

Brown, Bruce and MacPherson, Dwight L, writers; Boatwright, Thomas, artist. Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom. Burnaby [BC]: Arcana Press, 2011.

I have a secret. It’s kind of a ridiculous secret, but I’m going to share it with you, anyway, and I hope you won’t laugh at me too much. A while ago, I heard about a delightful comic called “Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom”, but, for some reason, my brain decided that …

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Review: Mountain Man

  • March 13, 2012

By Randy Stafford

Blackmore, Keith C. Mountain Man. (2011). USD $3.99. ASIN: B006MV7I6U.

Zombies.

They’re so rich in dramatic potential. Flashy dressers. Rich interior lives. Usually ready with a quick story from two centuries back. So pensive and conflicted about their relations with humans. A proud race aware of its long history.

Well, no.

Really, about all you can do with zombies is burn ‘em, crush ‘em, and shoot ‘em. Flesh-eating cockroaches are more interesting, even though they don’t …

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Review: Let’s Play White

  • March 9, 2012

By Jesse Bullington

Burke, Chesya. Let’s Play White. Apex Publications (April 26, 2011). USD $15.95, paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1937009991.

Chesya Burke’s powerful debut short story collection, Let’s Play White, begins with Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, Lyrics of a Lowly Life, a bleak and haunting, yet beautiful, piece that perfectly sets the tone for the stories that follow. Burke’s writing fluctuates from beguilingly plain language to the lush and the lyrical, and her plots range from the supernatural to …

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Review: You Shall Never Know Security

  • March 5, 2012

By Martha Hubbard

Hamantaschen, J.R. You Shall Never Know Security. West Pigeon Press, 2011.

According to the end notes, J.R. Hamantaschen is a 27-year-old, part-time fiction writer, resident in New York City. This seems to be his first published collection, but a number of the stories have appeared in a selection of magazines and journals. They are all professionally written; the language, in places, is evocative, almost elegiac.

There is a distinct urban – New York, San Francisco, or …

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Column: Global Ghoul: The Living and the Dead

  • February 24, 2012

By Dale Carothers

Jason. The Living and the Dead. Fantagraphics Books (December 2006). USD $9.95. ISBN: 978-1-56097-794-0.

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The Living and the Dead by Norwegian cartoonist, Jason, is nearly a silent …

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