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Book Review: What Giants were Saying – Author David Rix

WHAT THE GIANTS WERE SAYING Author David Rix Published by Eibonvale Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 216 pages Price: $12.75 “When pain doesn’t matter, do we cease to fear it? Does it just become another sensation? I wonder. Can you experience pain that goes somehow completely beyond pain – beyond a world where pain has meaning? It …

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Book Review: Supernatural – The Official Companion Season 3 – Author Nicholas Knight

SUPERNATURAL: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION SEASON 3 by Nicholas Knight Published by Titan Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color / B&W- 160 pages Price: $14.95 Well I suppose I’m starting backwards as I’m reviewing Season 3 before the first 2, but as all you Supernatural fans know each season is its own beast and season 3 is no exception. We are …

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Book Review: Still – Author Charlee Jacob

STILL Author Charlee Jacob Published by Necro Publications Publication Date: 2007 Format: Black /White – 342 pages Price: $19.95 “Photograph. Snapshot (Shot). Still. Still. Silent. Dead. Still. Still Life. Still Death. He did know that the dictionary definition of ‘still life’ referred to a portrait of inanimate objects- flowers, fruit, furniture. Nothing alive, that is. And it cut him to …

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Book Review: Spooksville – The Bone Jangels Cases – Issue 1

SPOOKSVILLE: THE BONE JANGLES CASES #1 (COMIC) Writer: Justin Fox Artist: John C. Narcomey Jr. Editor: Daryl Auclair Publisher:High Tower Comics Publication Date: 2008 Format: B&w- 32 pages Price: $5.00 “Welcome to Spooksville. A demented city full of ghouls and ghosts. One particular ghoul is the skeleton detective, Bone Jangles. In this premiere issue, Bone Jangles must protect the Eyeball …

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Book Review: Stay Dead – The Stranger and Tunnel Rats – Author Steve Wands

STAY DEAD: THE STRANGER AND TUNNEL RATS Author Steve Wands Published by Apparatus Revolution Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 46 pages Price: $4.99 for hard copy, free for download “They had the sickness. At least that’s what some people were calling it, as if a bottle of cough syrup would set you right again. Jennifer—unsure of how …

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Book Review: Frank Frazettas Swamp Demon – Issue 1

FRANK FRAZETTA’S SWAMP DEMON #1 (ONE-SHOT) (Comics) Writer: Joshua Ortega Art & Cover art by: Josh Medors & Jay Fotos Variant covers by: Frank Frazetta & Nat Jones From Image Comics Publication Date: 2008 Format: Full Color, 32 pages Price: $3.99 SYNOPSIS: Another one of Frank Frazetta’s classic paintings comes to life with the “Frank Frazetta’s Swamp Demon” one-shot. This …

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Book Review: Witch Craft – Compiled by Margaret McGuire & Alicia Kachmar

WITCH CRAFT: WICKED ACCESSORIES, CREEPY-CUTE TOYS, MAGICAL TREATS, & MORE! (HARD COVER) Compiled by Margaret McGuire & Alicia Kachmar Published by Quirk Classics Publication Date: 2010 Format: Color – 96 pages Price: $14.95 “Double, double, toil and trouble! The instructions in Witch Craft will help you conjure up 25 totally wicked treasures – everything from vampire bite necklaces to graveyard …

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Book Review: Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie – Author Mark Millar

Well hopefully when you pick up this sharp little read, you’d have already seen the movie it’s referring to. The book in a sense is an overview and tribute. Chock full of color photos, production stills, set designs, drawings, comic rendering, actor profiles, script breakdowns and a whole lot more….it’s easy to say that the book like the movie “kicks …

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Book Review: Johnny Halloween – Author Norman Partridge

Johnny Halloween: Norman Partridge “Norman Partridge’s Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s 100 Best Books of 2006. A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge’s rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning the author comparisons to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, …

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Book Review: 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die – Editor Steven Jay Schneider

It’s probably safe to say that the sci fi movies of generations are perhaps the most iconic of our film history sporting images of aliens, spaceships, alternate worlds and tales of fantastical proportion. As another entry into the featured films books, “101 Sci fi movies” surely captures the essence of the sci fi revolution. 1920’s carried forward to current, there …

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Book Review: Blokes Tomb of Horror – Issue 2

BLOKES TOMB OF HORROR #2 (COMIC) Writer: Eric Schock Writers: Jason Crawley, Enrico Teodorani,Francesca Paolucci,Andrea Teodorani,Maurizio Ercole Artists: Ju Gomez,Andrea Bulgarelli,Fernando Ignatius,Matteo Fioramonti,Alessio Nocerino,Manolo,Maurizio Ercole Cover Artist: Silvano Cover Colors: Maximilian T.Plissken Publisher: Virus Comix Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 52 pages Price: $4.99 “Featuring 7 tales of terror, Virus Comix is proud to present the second issue …

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