Ah, sweet broadband. Well, back before I left the old barn for the new barn, I raided my erstwhile-to-be library’s excellent comics shelf and picked up The Vampire Brat, by Batton Lash of Exhibit A Press. This is one of…
Your Humble Blogger had forgotten how short James and the Giant Peach is. That’s not bad, actually; I prefer a skimpy book to a padded one. Other things I had forgotten about James include the Cloud Men (who take up…
As YHB mentioned Ethan of Athos on a comment thread over at Jed’s Lorem Ipsum, and then my Best Reader pulled it off the shelf and gave it a read, it was, perhaps inevitable that YHB would reread it with…
Your Humble Blogger somehow managed to neither become a Big Fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stuff, not become a hater. They are sort of like off-brand potato chips; I tend to consume them absent-mindedly, without much actual enjoyment, but without,…
Your Humble Blogger is aware that he recently announced he was laying off the short stuff for a while. The thing is that when I picked up George Alec Effinger Live! From Planet Earth off the library shelf, I somehow…
So, Your Humble Blogger remembered The Puppet Masters as Robert Heinlein at his Heinleiniest, in a good way. That is, lots of action, a quick read, a plausible enough premise, a likeable enough protagonist, enemies that I can enjoy squishing…
Digression: Yes, I know, I’m starting with a digression. But after the digression, I’m going into something else that’s a lot like a digression itself, which is the story of how this book came into my hands. It’s an interesting…
Gentle Reader, I am aware you may well be thinking Doesn’t he like anything? When did V. lose his sense of humor? Well, and I have been cranky lately, but I am still capable of laughing, on occasion. For instance,…
Your Humble Blogger has read and enjoyed some of Will Eisner’s stuff, but this was the first time I read his most famous (I think) work, A Contract with God and other tenement stories. I was disappointed. Not with the…
I’m sure Gentle Readers all are in no need of more whinging from YHB about how I’ve just gone right off the short story format. So I’ll try to keep things as specific and positive as I can, when noting…