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marlowe148. Slayer Repentless by Jon Schnepp & Guiu Vilanova - So this comic book is a music video. Like it started out as a music video and then someone wrote a comic book about all the people in the music video, a little before they got into the music video and then had that big fight. Basically it's Nazis vs rednecks & bikers (yes, there's a possibility that these guys wouldn't be on the same side) in a small town that doesn't get wifi. Or internet. But there are brothers involved. One brother is a repentant Nazi with a fridged wife whose corpse he takes to the small town and the other brother is the Nazi who decided to kill his brother. Anyhow, it's fairly predictable but I like the art. And the pictures of the comic book artists and band signing copies at a convention are fun.
49. Ascender vol 1: The Haunted Galaxy by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen - This is a beautifully illustrated and colored comic book with some seriously elegaic undertones as the world has moved on from the characters and all the robots are dead. Now evil wizards control everything including a major evil wizard called Momma who consults with her mothers. FIrst chapter so I'm not sure where it's going but I think it's all about getting rid of the evil magicians. It's a sequel to Descender.
50. Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston - I remember loving the Erasing All Signs of Death book but not remembering anything beyond the character beat of the protagonist telling the scary gangster outright that he does not ride in buses (later on you find out that he was on a bus when a terrorist attack happened. And he saved the gangster's daughter). So the writing is pretty great. It moves along but I don't remember much else and I doubt I would remember anything about this book except for the fact that it's a gangster book with vampires and the main villains are chasidic Jews who go on just a little too long about being from the rapist sect of the Tribe of Benjamin (see the end of Judges for that story - it's really fucked up and the main point is that Israel needed a king to keep this nasty shit from happening again). Anyhow the whole thing does work in the noir detective genre with the conspiracies and mysteries piling up until the end when they seem to fall apart with really simple explanations about how the Jews were the ones that killed that blood supplier because they didn't like the Manhattan vampires muscling in on their territory. And the protagonist starts a war. So the back cover where he's preventing a war - nope.
I will read more books in the series but I always notice that when I read another book of this kind by the same author I feel let down. Like I know all the tricks and if I read an earlier book I'm going to know where it's going since characters keep eluding to the fates of past characters. This series might be the exception. After all, it's more noir detective than urban fantasy and I can read noir detective books by the same author.
49. Ascender vol 1: The Haunted Galaxy by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen - This is a beautifully illustrated and colored comic book with some seriously elegaic undertones as the world has moved on from the characters and all the robots are dead. Now evil wizards control everything including a major evil wizard called Momma who consults with her mothers. FIrst chapter so I'm not sure where it's going but I think it's all about getting rid of the evil magicians. It's a sequel to Descender.
50. Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston - I remember loving the Erasing All Signs of Death book but not remembering anything beyond the character beat of the protagonist telling the scary gangster outright that he does not ride in buses (later on you find out that he was on a bus when a terrorist attack happened. And he saved the gangster's daughter). So the writing is pretty great. It moves along but I don't remember much else and I doubt I would remember anything about this book except for the fact that it's a gangster book with vampires and the main villains are chasidic Jews who go on just a little too long about being from the rapist sect of the Tribe of Benjamin (see the end of Judges for that story - it's really fucked up and the main point is that Israel needed a king to keep this nasty shit from happening again). Anyhow the whole thing does work in the noir detective genre with the conspiracies and mysteries piling up until the end when they seem to fall apart with really simple explanations about how the Jews were the ones that killed that blood supplier because they didn't like the Manhattan vampires muscling in on their territory. And the protagonist starts a war. So the back cover where he's preventing a war - nope.
I will read more books in the series but I always notice that when I read another book of this kind by the same author I feel let down. Like I know all the tricks and if I read an earlier book I'm going to know where it's going since characters keep eluding to the fates of past characters. This series might be the exception. After all, it's more noir detective than urban fantasy and I can read noir detective books by the same author.
