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Game of Thrones: Episode 2: The Lost Lords review
God, this was boring. Well-written, but boring. That is an amazing accomplishment given the episode involves several impressive sword-fights, a surprise resurrection, a murder attempt,...
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Is the zombie genre worth writing in?
One of these zombies will be a success. The others will not be. Hey folks, A friend of mine asked me an interesting question. He's a burgeoning horror author and said that he wanted his book to...
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Crowd-funding authors - The New Financial Reality?
Recently, on The Bookie Monster, we had an interesting article by someone I respect a great deal called "Writers Begging For Money." Which was an article about writers asking money for them to...
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Agent Carter review
Agent Carter recently ended and I thought I'd stop to give my thoughts on this miniseries and what it managed to accomplish in its short time onscreen. For those of you unfamiliar with the series...
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The Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt review
I was very fond of The Eye of the World, the first novel in the series and one which managed to nicely encapsulate a lot about what I enjoyed about high fantasy. It wasn't the most original...
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Demon Squad: Resurrection review
Armageddon Bound was a fun little novel, giving us a new urban fantasy series with a Judeo-Christian mythology theme. God and the Devil have made peace, leaving the universe to humanity and their...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Yeah. That was a thing. I could end my review now with that rather concise summary but I would feel that I'm doing a disservice to my army. I wanted to see this film in theaters but, sadly,...
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Sunset Overdrive review
Underwhelming. Which is annoying because this video game goes out of its way to try to whelm its audience. However, it is basically a Mountain Dew commercial with about as much punk and rebel...
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The Avengers (2012) review
I'm going to reveal something which may remove a substantial portion of my geek credibility: this movie wasn't the be-end-all-of-everything for me. I like it, don't me wrong. I'm even able to...
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The Dresden Files: Small Favor
Small Favor is the tenth novel of The Dresden Files, following Harry Dresden as he has his second encounter with his arch-nemesis, Nicodemus, from Death Masks. It also follows up on the "three...
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Son of Batman review
It is a testament to the skill of Grant Morrison that he managed to make a ridiculous premise interesting. Batman's unknown son, Damien (as in The Omen), is revealed to have been raised by the...
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Demon Squad: At the Gates reviews
The Demon Squad series by Tim Marquitz is one of my favorite independent urban fantasy series. It's not as funny as The Dresden Files and focuses a little too much on world-ending threats versus...
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Supergirl: Who is the Girl of Steel?
The recent announcement of a Supergirl series coming to television was greeted by a lot of fans with a mixture of excitement as well as trepidation. Who would be cast? What would be the plotline?...
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The Dresden Files: Turn Coat review
One of the more controversial figures in The Dresden Files series is Morgan, Harry Dresden's equivalent to Inspector Javert. A ruthless Warden and mage-hunter, Morgan believed Harry was a warlock...
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Hounancier review
Note: This is a review of an advanced reader copy (ARC). The actual novel does not come out until 3-16-2015. The Valducan series by Seth Skorkowsky began last year with the very strong entry,...
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Justice League: Throne of Atlantis review
Wow, that was bad. No, let me correct that. Justice League: War was bad. This was just sort of there. There's nothing really offensive about Throne of Atlantis but there's nothing...
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The Midnight Spell review
I don't normally review Young Adult books. I like quite a few of them but they are a bit far from my horror, urban fantasy, and comic book literature wheelhouse. The Midnight Spell, however, is a...
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Mountain of Daggers review
A big fan of the Valducan books by Seth Skorkowsky, I was interested in other books by him and the release of a new fantasy series intrigued me. Mountain of Daggers is the first collection of short...
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Hounacier review
The Valducan series by Seth Skorkowsky began last year with the very strong entry, Damoren. Damoren followed the adventures of Matt Hollis, mystical gunslinger and demon hunter as he joined the...
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Soon I Will Be Invincible review
Soon I Will Be Invincible is more or less the father of modern superhero literature, specifically that new category of storytelling: capepunk. Capepunk stories are those tales which dissect the...
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