I am very much enjoying the Locke & Key graphic novel series, and am so glad that my sister is letting me read them (even before she has a chance to)! The plot keeps moving along at a not-too-rapid pace, yet every volume is filled with new mysteries, developments, and dangers that this poor family has to face. I find it all to be so riveting, but then, this genre is really right up my alley. If you haven’t read any of the previous instalments […]
Bollocks
I have this theory about Keanu Reeves. The less his character knows about what’s going on, the better the movie. My favorite movies of his are Bill and Ted, I Love You to Death, Parenthood and The Matrix. My theory really holds up with the Matrix trilogy; the first one was awesome, the last two, not so much. Why would someone cast a man who can only play someone who knows nothing as a man who knows too much? Let’s not even get into his […]
I am the Walrus.
You have no frame of reference here, Robyn. You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know. . .
Is this the beginning of the end?
So, I met Bill Willingham at a book signing between this book and the last one, Cubs In Toyland. That book was so freaking sad, and I told him as much and that I hoped that the next one would be lighter. That’s not what happened. Now, I’m not complaining, because as gut wrenching as it was, it was good. He just wants to make us cry,apparently. (Seriously though, he was really nice when I met him.)
Alpha & Omega (Locke & Key Vol. 6)
The series has finally come to a close, and what started out as a creepy homage to Lovecraft and the unsettling horror of old came home a fully fleshed, chilling look at the patience of evil. After all the deep world building of the first trades, this final installment felt rushed, the chase scenes felt drawn out to fit into the cliche of ending a nice cerebral ride with a chase, but that is my only complaint. I felt the ending was satisfying, suspenseful and […]
“A brain!” “A heart!” “A home!” “Da vote!”
It’s all too common for modern readers to look into the works of the past and see things that may or may not have been intended in the fullness of time. What we may see as a delicate, subtly woven metaphor to rail against some then-incumbent wrongdoing the author may have added as nothing more than a narrative flourish. How much exactly did L. Frank Baum intend to comment on women’s suffrage, transgender issues, and the monstrosity of the pun? I can’t safely say, given […]
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