By Christopher Cantwell, Daniel Bayliss & Patricio Delpeche A miniseries set in an alternate universe where Buffy died shortly after being called to be a slayer, this pair of graphic novels focuses on the familiar Angel crew. In this setting Angel and Cordelia are a hot item, both as a couple, and as […]
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Anime Review: Castlevania: Nocturne
April 8, 2024A distant follow up to Netflix’s Castlevania series, Nocturne is set during the French Revolution and focuses on Trevor and Sypha’s descendant Richtor Belmont, his adopted sister and magician Maria Renard, Annette, a former slave with Orisha powers, and Edouard, Annette’s best friend and a opera singer. I started watching right after finishing the first […]
Anime Review: Castlevania
March 29, 2024Castlevania isn’t a true anime, as it’s produced by Netflix, and written by Warren Ellis (who is amazing), done in an anime-inspired style of artwork, however it presents itself as one (thanks to multiple anime alumni also being involved) so I’m reviewing it as one. Something it’s also not is aimed at teens, with sexual […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE LOST GIRLS BY SONIA HARTL
May 24, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Page Street Publishing, 2022 ISBN: 9781645673149 Available: Hardcover, e-book, audiobook ( Bookshop.org ) In this book, a group of young women who were turned by the same gaslighting vampire team up to take him down. Since 1987, Holly has been an eternal teenager, stuck with one of the era’s […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula by Koren Shadmi Life Drawn, 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1643376615 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula is a graphic biography of one of the most recognizable men to portray Dracula, Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, or simply Bela Lugosi. […]
Movie Review: Morbius
May 17, 2022Warning: This is going to be a rambling review from yours truly. My introduction to Morbius, the Marvel comics character was this dude: A character from the 90s Spiderman cartoon series. Unlike the other Spiderman cartoons, this one introduced Morbius, had Blade as a guest star, and I have to admit it, I was a […]
Graphic Novel Review: Dusk Vol. 1 by David Doub
March 3, 2022**Cross posted from the ML Archives** David Doub, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-578-01436-4 Available: New Dusk is David Doub’s first graphic novel. The book has four chapters. The first chapter jumps into the story without providing much background, but the reader easily picks up that Eve is the willing servant to Vampire Lord Ash, and that the two […]
Book Review: All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
February 24, 2022**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quill Tree Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062977168 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In All These Bodies, Kendare Blake imagines a murder spree throughout the Midwest in the summer of 1958, known as the “Bloodless Murders” or “Dracula Murders” because the victims have all been drained of blood. On September […]
IDW Publishing, 2004 ISBN 0971977550 Available: New and Used Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost inhabited town in North America. The sun doesn’t set from May to August, and it doesn’t rise from November to December. It is this November to December time when the town is in total darkness that our story takes place. […]
The Strain is a novel series which helped relaunch the vampires in horror genre after die hard horror fans got tired of seeing vampire appear in more romantic forms elsewhere. Its wikipage is here. It has been adapted into a TV series and a graphic novel. -Michele The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck […]