Comments on: Jim Butcher - Dresden Files

By: Doyce

Doyce — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:47:00 +0000

Worth noting that the Dresden Files are being dressed up in RPG clothes by the same guys that did FATE (fate-rpg.com), a fudge-varient that ***Dave (psi-clone) ran a really good spy-genre thing with last year.

By: Hythian

Hythian — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:14:00 +0000

So need to go visit Things From Another World and see if they have any back issues of the Serenity comic. Most of my comic shopping lately has been picking up collected volumes of things I missed reading earlier or picking up manga volumes ( which technically are still collected volumes since most of it was published in a magazine originally ).

Oh, and no problem on waiting until October on the book. I’ve waited since May already and was expecting to wait until the end of the year to snag a copy.

By: Boulder Dude

Boulder Dude — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:10:00 +0000

Ok...

Random comic review from yesterday.

The Authority: Magnificent Kevin.

Damn funny from the first few pages all the way to the end. Apollo getting taken out with a pie…damn funny. Swift singing “I’m just an Asian chick” and taken out with a pie…even funnier.

The final Serenity comic. A well done lead in to the movie.

By: ktbuffy

ktbuffy — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:55:00 +0000

I know that feeling. Oh, and I don’t know if you caught the PM I sent you last night (you may have been AFK at the time), but I will be able to get that book for you, though probably not until October.

By: Hythian

Hythian — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:07:00 +0000

I'd have the check the reciept from my last move, but I think it was 44 boxes of which I think 37 or so were books, graphics novels, comics or sketchbooks and writing journals and loose paper with stuff I had written on it.

So, yeah, rather fond of books and definately enjoy talking about them. Can always use more books!

Bibliophiles of the world unite!

By: ktbuffy

ktbuffy — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:57:00 +0000

I have Wicked, on my pile of books to get to, you know, someday soon, along with the sequel, Son of a Witch. (Coming soon! Check your local independent bookstore!)

I liked Robin McKinley's Beauty, too. And I can keep talking about books for days and days and days and days and days...

It's kinda my job.

By: Boulder Dude

Boulder Dude — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:59:00 +0000

Gah! blogger ate my post!

sigh

Ok...

Brust...I have truely enjoyed everything I have read of his.

A new series that just came out (June) that is an amusing dark fairy tale series is called Lulliby.

The cast is Alice (in wonderland, grown up), the Pied Piper, Little Red Riding Hood (a fox girl), the Wizard of Oz, Jim Hawkins - Pirate, and Pinoccio.

The art is beautiful, and the story has been good so far. The TPB of the first four comes out this month.

Another author that my friend that moved to Boring Oregan got me hooked on is Gregory Maguire. WIcked (very funny and sad), Confessions of an ugly Step-Sister (inspired), and Mirror Mirror (oddly funny).

By: ktbuffy

ktbuffy — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:44:00 +0000

Oh! How could I forget?

Gypsy by Steven Brust, and of course Neil Gaiman's Stardust. Duh.

By: Hythian

Hythian — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:49:00 +0000

Well, having not read anything by Holly Black yet or the ‘Meredith Gentry’ book, the only things I had to compare was the descriptions I had heard about them…

Though I do have to say that Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty trilogy really was pretty much just sometimes very silly BDSM porn.

I know I have several of Anne Rice’s vampire books in a box somewhere, but I can’t recall if I ever actually read them. Some of the books I bought years back when I did Vampire LARP’ing still and wanted to play the ‘Spot the Derivative’ game.

Actually, BD there just brought this to mind for me with his mention of comics but Fable by Bill Willingham is a comic with a few collected volumes now about fairy-tale legends living in modern day New York. The first volume is a whodunit sort of detective story if I remember right. Think there are five collected volumes out now. Apparently it won, or at least was nominated, for some award for its writing. Been meaning to pick it up myself.

By: Boulder Dude

Boulder Dude — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:15:00 +0000

Ahh...

Laurell K. Hamilton and Anne Rice.

Or as we tease Shock/Jackie about and call it Vampyre pr0n....which makes her blush and stammer all over the place.

I'll have to take a look for the Holly Black and Jim Butcher books.

One thing that Doyce gave me a while back and was great fun in a comic-book-dark-fairy-tale kind of way, were the Courteny Crumrin books. Great fun and with a wonderful blend of humor and dark.