Posted by Bill Capossere | Oct 2, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 2
Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle Between Marvel and DC by Reed Tucker Once upon a time, Reed Tucker reminds us in Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle Between Marvel and DC, comic book fans might come to blows over the great dividing question of their time: Are you Marvel or DC? This may seem […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Apr 9, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt de la Peña In comparison with the other three books in the DC ICONS COLLECTION, I’m afraid I have to say that Superman’s entry is not the best. As with the others, it explores the adolescence of a famous superhero before he or she donned a mask and cloak, and in […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Apr 8, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 1
Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas The DC ICONS COLLECTION has a very simple premise: take a famous DC superhero, give them to a popular YA author, and have them craft a story about each character’s adolescence, well before they put on their capes and tights and started crime-fighting. It allows the authors to delve […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Apr 7, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Superheroes permeate nearly every facet of pop-culture these days, and someone at Penguin Books found a way to capitalize on that popularity: round up some successful YA authors and have them write original stories about the most famous DC superheroes while still in their adolescence (the heroes, not the authors). […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Apr 6, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo The DC ICONS COLLECTION is a series of four YA novels that take a famous DC superhero and explores their background before they became the stuff of legends. This means having a look at their adolescence, whether it’s Clark tending the farm in Smallvillle, Bruce doing voluntary work in […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Feb 15, 2017 | World Wide Wednesday | 6
Obituary: Although Edward C Bryant is not well-known these days, he was a definite influence on the genre. Locus has his obituary. His short works were frequently on the Hugo and Nebula shortlist. In 2011, Ted Chiang wrote about what he learned from Bryant’s short story collection Particle Theory for Strange Horizons. This is a […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Oct 28, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 4
Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan & Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel is a posthumous collaboration between late author Robert Jordan, of THE WHEEL OF TIME fame, and officially licensed Wheel of Time™ artist Amy Romanczuk, who has merged phrases or dialogue from many […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Nov 8, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 4
Marvel 1602: 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (story), Andy Kubert (illustrations), Richard Isanove (color) In 2001, Marvel gave Neil Gaiman the chance to write in the Marvel universe. Being Gaiman, he didn’t come up with a traditional superhero story at all. There are no tall buildings to be leaped at a single bound, no airplanes […]
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