Italian comic artist Paolo Bacilieri mixes the history of the crossword puzzle with a mystery, while jumbling time, memories, a love of the city of Milan, and… Read more “Comic Review: Fun”
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Book Review: Kirby: King of Comics
Written by a former Jack Kirby assistant, Mark Evanier, who himself has a long history in the industry, this biography also serves as something of a history… Read more “Book Review: Kirby: King of Comics”
Tabletop RPG Review: Thousand Year Old Vampire
Not gonna lie, vampires aren’t my bag and when I first heard about Thousand Year Old Vampire, I just let it fly by without any investigation. Yet,… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Thousand Year Old Vampire”
Tabletop RPG Review: Orpheum Lofts
Miguel Ribeiro has created a series of system neutral game supplements called Postmortem Giallo. Orpheum Lofts is the first. It does have stat-blocks for a game called… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Orpheum Lofts”
Book Review: Washington Black
I’ll admit, I was kinda hornswoggled into reading this book. I saw it sitting on the shelf, found the cover art appealing, and read some of the… Read more “Book Review: Washington Black”
Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley
There’s rich, and then there’s inherited wealth rich. Truly wealthy people don’t live like the rest of us, their world isn’t like ours. Dillon Ripley was born… Read more “Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley”
Book Review: Underground
A childhood obsession with an old, disused train tunnel that went under his house was the seed of an obsession that would take over Will Hunt as… Read more “Book Review: Underground”
All Roads (and tracks) Lead to Rome
With Florence serving as the base of our 2016 trip to Italy, we took a two hour high-speed train ride to Rome for a day in the… Read more “All Roads (and tracks) Lead to Rome”
Book Review: Gilded Suffragists
I really don’t enjoy writing negative reviews. I tend to be somewhat picky about what I read, so I tend to like a lot of the books… Read more “Book Review: Gilded Suffragists”
Comic Review: Peepland
I dig pulp fiction and hard boiled crime novels. I’m not an expert. I’m not a connoisseur. But I like ‘em. I like the Film Noir that… Read more “Comic Review: Peepland”
Matthew J. Constantine 