The Nymphos of Rocky Flats is the first of a new series of vampire stories writtenby Mario Acevedo. This was fun — Acevedo took some genre standards (nymphos, tortured vets/vamps, etc) and breathed a bit of new life into them. The plot is basically that Felix Gomez became a vampire after serving in Iraq. His guilt over having killed civilians continues to torture him, and when he takes on some detective work for a friend, he’s forced to both confront ...Read More

Okay, here’s a quick run through of what I’ve been reading..

Magic Study is the sequel to Poison Study, once again following the adventures of Yelena as she continues to encounter political power plays and navigates her new-found magical powers. Interestingly, she discovers that she’s not at all a super-powered demi-goddess. She’s got some neato powers, sure, but she can’t start fires, which is a pretty common magic, and her insistent desire to be independent still gets her into trouble. She’s ...Read More

The Buffy Season 8 comic series started off with a 4-issue arc that was just okay, then produced the best single-issue comic I have ever read in my life (“The Chain”), and then managed to sustain some serious quality through the second 4-issue arc, “No Future For You”.

I have always liked the character of Faith–I thought she had some complexity, some struggles, some ambiguity. And this arc is exactly where the character has needed to go. This is Faith’s transition-to-adulthood ...Read More

After the, er, thing I reviewed last time, I figured I’d go for something I love: Nevada. It’s a comic, by Steve Gerber, set Las Vegas, about a dancer called, as you may guess, Nevada.

And Nevada rocks. While the whole series is about something happening *to* her – specifically a cosmic initiation called the Ordeal of the Hammer – she never gives up her agency to just let it happen. She doesn’t just face situations head ...Read More