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Once upon a time, a collection of Native American writers teamed up with some of comic’s finest to create a unique and powerful anthology. Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection pays tribute to a lush legacy of Native storytelling from a wide array of tribes, respecting their traditions while pointing to their potential. The Moonshot seriesContinue reading “Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection”

I’ve never been a fan of audiobooks, so I’m lucky that I got an introduction to them through Catherynne M. Valente’s The Refrigerator Monologues. Valente introduces us to six women from a Marvel/DC-esque world of superheroes, who have gathered in the afterlife to commiserate about being “refrigerated.” This term, coined by writer and feminist GailContinue reading “The Refrigerator Monologues”

In the The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman has imagined a post apocalyptic world of children, where the only adults–or white people, for that matter–are the invading Russian “roos.” The sins and virtues of society have been reborn in the ashes of a country ravaged by the deadly posies, a disease that killsContinue reading “The Country of Ice Cream Star”

From Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips, the masterminds behind some of Image and Marvel Comics’ biggest hits, comes the electrifying Fatale. This is the story of the mysterious Jo, a beautiful immortal whose supernatural ability to attract men and monsters alike will send her hurtling across the decades in a bloody rush. The plot shiftsContinue reading “Fatale”

Novelist Shaun Hamil hits the ground running with A Cosmology of Monsters, his masterful novel. It’s the story of the Turner family, which finds itself overshadowed across the generations by Lovecraftian forces from beyond. As their youngest son, Noah, tries to make sense of his family’s fractured dynamics and discovers himself at their commercial hauntedContinue reading “A Cosmology of Monsters”

Tinfoil Butterfly is the story of Emma, a deeply disturbed young woman whose self-destructive journey through the Black Hills has left her stranded in a near-deserted town. There, she is offered an unlikely trance for redemption in the form of Earl, a talented, damaged child struggling to escape from the brutal George. Despite her attemptsContinue reading “Tinfoil Butterfly”

Warren Ellis has rocked the world over and over again with a spectacle of creative, subversive comics. Now, he turns his poison pen to prose for Crooked Little Vein, the endlessly imaginative story of a very unlucky private detective with a knack for constantly stumbling into the weirdest situation possible. He finds himself pressganged intoContinue reading “Crooked Little Vein”

Christopher Moore, comedy writer extraordinaire, takes on the Greatest Story Ever Told in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. Our sardonic narrator, Levi who is called Biff, has just been abruptly resurrected into the modern world and set to write a new Gospel under the supervision of the most dimwitted angel inContinue reading “Lamb”

In 2009, the members of a Mennonite colony in Bolivia were shaken by the discovery that their women had been repeatedly drugged and raped over several years. Although the perpetrators were imprisoned, the colony elders raced to cover up the scandal as quickly as possible, and it was almost forgotten–until now. Miriam Toews has draggedContinue reading “Women Talking”

Nameless is, like many of Grant Morrison’s other works, a story that starts out straightforward and descends into gibbering lunacy. We begin on an occult space mission–think 2001: A Space Odyssey crossed with John Constantine: Hellblazer and a dash of Inception. By the end we’re drowning in an exquisite stew of rampant destruction, duality, unusualContinue reading “Nameless”