We’re making a podcast! We hope you like Bookstabber. We’re really having a fun time making it. Here’s the pitch: Gene and Willow argue about books. Well, Willow does. Gene seems hellbent on finding reasons to like all of them. […]
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Author: Gene Ambaum
Graphic Novel Review: Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter by Rich Moyer
Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter by Rich Moyer. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021. 9780593308912. 240pp. Vampire hunting has been an obsession of the Helsing family for generations, but it didn’t end well for any of them. Now Chad Helsing has […]
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Willow on The Never Games podcast Episode 2.9
Willow was a guest on the most recent episode of The Never Games, “Sir Never Games of Boca Raton Scotland,” which was released yesterday! (Willow appears at about 32:00 if you want to skip ahead.) She explains how to pronunce […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland
Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland. Fantagraphics, 2020. 9781683963110. 96pp. Taller than your average graphic novel. Eight people run on a track that winds through the woods (and other places). Soon after they start, a runner from another group steals the […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Don Vega by Pierre Alary
Don Vega by Pierre Alary. Translation: Matt Madden. Europe Comics, 2020. http://www.europecomics.com/album/don-vega/ for digital purchasing options. A Zorro tale set in late 1840s California, drawn by Pierre Alary, whose art I fell in love with while trying my best to […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Moms by Yeong-Shin Ma
Moms by Yeong-Shin Ma. Translated by Janet Hong. Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. 9781770464001. 372pp. This graphic novel, focused on the lives of women in their fifties living in Seoul, South Korea, starts with a street fight between two women over […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Sentient by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta
Sentient by Jeff Lemire (writer) and Gabriel Walta (art). TKO Studios, 2019. 9781732748590. Contains Sentient #1 – #6. Onboard the USS Montgomery. Mission Day 742. Earth has about ten years of habitability left. The crew and their families on the […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Oh My Gods! Written by Stephanie Cooke and Insha Fitzpatrick
Oh My Gods! written by Stephanie Cooke and Inshah Fitzpatrick, Art by Juliana Moon, Color by Whitney Cogar. Etch (houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2021. 9780358299523. 208pp. Karen leaves New Jersey to go stay with her dad, Zed, for a while in […]
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Graphic Novel Review: A Gift For A Ghost: A Graphic Novel by Borja González
A Gift For A Ghost: A Graphic Novel by Borja González. English translation by Lee Douglas. Abrams ComicArts, 2020. In 1856, Teresa meets a person in a skeleton costume in the woods, and makes the mistake of telling her little […]
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Book Reviews: Second Books in Two Science Fiction Series
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2) by Arkady Martine. Tor, 2021. 9781250186461. 496pp. This is a sequel to Martine’s A Memory Called Empire. That one is about an ambassador from a space station trying to help her people maintain […]
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