Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1
Do you ever read something and go “I don’t know what the hell that was, but I liked it?” That …
Tag Archives: 2014
Umbral, Vol. 1
In the past decade or so, there’s been a surge in imaginative science fiction/fantasy comics that combine complex, unique ideas, …
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1
“Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin’ Rebs football team…and more bastards than you’ve ever seen. When you’re an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this…is to carry a really big stick.”
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife – Meg Elison
When she went to sleep, the world was dying. When she awoke, it was dead. As one of the last surviving women, she must make her way through a treacherous wasteland.
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
An ambitious novel spanning decades, Station Eleven look at human relationships before and after an apocalyptic flu epidemic levels society and decimates the population. Don’t miss it.
Europe in Autumn – Dave Hutchinson
Rudi, an Estonian chef working in Poland, must navigate a balkanized Europe fractured into hundreds of polities, in a novel that reads like the love-child of le Carré and Kafka.
Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes
A monster is stalking the crumbling streets of Detroit—a perverse artist who kills a teenager and replaces his lower legs with those of a fawn…
Really The Blues – Joseph Koenig
In the smokey streets of occupied Paris, jazz musician Eddie Piron is drawn into the murder investigation of his drummer, becoming entangled with Nazis and revolutionaries.
American Pulp – Paula Rabinowitz
“There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.”—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)
Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased 