Use Your Illusion I and II, by Eric Weisbard
October 16, 2008 2:12 amAnother installment of the excellent 33 1/3 series of books on seminal albums. This one is only nominally about GN’R.... View Article
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Abandoned Cars, by Tim Lane
October 13, 2008 2:11 amA collection of short comics about Lane’s “Great American Mythological Drama? ? think diners and Elvis, hoboes and criminals, dive... View Article
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008
October 10, 2008 2:09 amThe annual anthology of true crime writing from the country’s leading magazines. While always great books full of fascinating stories,... View Article
The Dain Curse, by Dashiell Hammett
October 5, 2008 2:09 amHammett’s second novel; I liked the first, Red Harvest, better. Though the prose and dialogue are a lot of fun,... View Article
Blue, by Elizabeth Genco and Sami Makkonen
October 3, 2008 1:07 pmA modern retelling of the Bluebeard legend (I did my own version at Split Lip), with art by my collaborator... View Article
The Drifting Classroom, Vols. 10-12, by Kazuo Umezu
October 1, 2008 2:05 amThe conclusion to Umezu’s 1970s kids apocalypse story in which a full schoolhouse is sent into the future after a... View Article