Absolute Swamp Thing, Vol. 1, by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, John Totleben et al.
April 7, 2020 10:23 amWhy does DC recolor classic books? This previously moody series is too bright, too sharp. Steve Oliff does some great... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
52/52: No Longer Human, by Junji Ito
March 25, 2020 8:09 amBasically Warren Zevon’s “Mr. Bad Example,” but with horror elements. I like the Zevon better; at least it has a... View Article
52/52: The Willows and Other Nightmares, by Algernon Blackwood and Paul Pope
March 21, 2020 11:15 amBlackwood might be too subtle for me. This was my first exposure to his work. While I appreciated the ideas... View Article
52/52: Agency, by William Gibson
February 21, 2020 6:59 pmThe sequel to Gibson’s chilling, outlook-changing “The Peripheral.” I keep thinking it’s “The Agency,” but it’s “agency,” like the power... View Article
52/52: Merle Haggard’s Okie From Muskogee, by Rachel Lee Rubin
February 19, 2020 6:55 pmConvinced that Haggard was a hopelessly conservative lout due to this album’s title track? This terrific look at country music... View Article
52/52: Hellboy the Complete Short Stories, Vol. 2 by Mike Mignola et al.
January 19, 2020 10:18 amThe last volume in the recent Hellboy Omnibus reissues, collecting odds-n-ends shorts by Mignola and others. Maybe lacking the highs... View Article
52/52: Monster, She Wrote, by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson
January 17, 2020 10:27 amA useful overview of women in genre since the 1600s. A necessary corrective to the idea that women haven’t been... View Article
52/52: Knots and Crosses, by Ian Rankin
January 14, 2020 12:40 pmOne of Rankin’s novels about his Inspector Rebus. Perhaps an earlier book in the series. Hardly a police procedural; more... View Article
52/52: The Sweet Forever, by George Pelecanos
January 12, 2020 12:37 pmTo try to help jumpstart my reading and writing in 2020, I’m going to resurrect a blog series that I... View Article
Media Diet 2017: Books and Comics
January 2, 2018 7:33 amYears ago, I used to review every book I read on the Split Lip blog. It was fun, but I... View Article
