I was all over the place with
my reading last month and I intended it that way. I felt the need to jar myself
from a straightforward path of simply picking up next thing in front of me so I
forced my hand further into the stacks- so to speak. Actually some of these
things were read on the Kindle so in those cases I was paging past the first
screen of offerings. Its all the same in the end! I jumped from a great 1950's
crime novel that would have made a fine noir-ish film to a fun, short bit of
horror-fantasy about a murderous leprechaun. If there was just some way to
merge those two dissimilar tales into a single movie I'd could be very happy. Then
I read a trashy post-apocalyptic novel but it wasn't quite as trashy or as over
the top as I was hoping for. I wasn't unhappy I read it but I was hoping for a
more visceral story.
The two comic trade
paperbacks I read were both interesting, especially the Simonson Fantastic Four
stuff. I will seek out more of his run on that book in the future. And I was
thrilled to finally read Moorcock's John Carter riff. I really enjoyed it. It
brought back the thrill of reading the ERB novels for the first time when I was
a kid. Great stuff!
HOME IS THE SAILOR by Day Keene (great crime tale from 1952
-A Hard Case Crime novel)
A GRAVE ST. PATRICK'S DAY by Nic Brown (fun terror tale)
THE COMING OF THE RATS by George H. Smith (OK trashy
post-apocalyptic tale written in the early 1960s)
FANTASTIC FOUR Visionaries Vol. 1 by Walt Simonson (cosmic
tales with many guest stars)
CITY OF THE BEAST
by Michael Moorcock (excellent homage to ERB's Martian tales)
PSI FORCE Classic Vol. 1 - (the first nine issues of this long
defunct New Universe comic- it wasn't very good until the ninth issue, sadly)
GIANT KILLER EELS by Stuart Neild (not very good monster
tale in the Guy N. Smith vein)
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