My eyes travel over the words...
Sep. 20th, 2005 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
Two more books:
Invasion of the Road Weenies by David Lubar. It's YA spook stories. More like Juvenile Twilight Zone stories. Mr. Lubar is a short story author so the various tales in this book zip through without too much trouble. I don't particularly like being scared when I read so I rarely am and here the fear-meter is definately ramped down to the "campfire ghoststory" level. So...it's not that scary. But there are a couple of really nice stories in there that are genuinely squicky or touch on something a bit deeper than a quick fright.
Not hugely recommended, but you might know some kids who'd really like it.
Following up we have the trade paperback collection of the first 6 issues of Artesia by Mark Smylie. He and his studio had a booth at GenCon this year. After reading this collection, I totally wish I'd stopped by and gotten something signed. The artwork is very good (rather European-style comic art), the story is engaging and the background is rock solid. Artesia is consort to a king, captain of his army, high priestess in his temples and a witch in her own right. Needless to say, the King really hates her. I really liked this and while it was mostly exposition and set-up, the action both military and mythical keeps right on rolling along. In fact, I was rather wishing that there was a bit more set-up so that we could see her rise to power a bit more fully. Anyway, this is definitely on my list of Trades to keep an eye out for.
later
Tom
Two more books:
Invasion of the Road Weenies by David Lubar. It's YA spook stories. More like Juvenile Twilight Zone stories. Mr. Lubar is a short story author so the various tales in this book zip through without too much trouble. I don't particularly like being scared when I read so I rarely am and here the fear-meter is definately ramped down to the "campfire ghoststory" level. So...it's not that scary. But there are a couple of really nice stories in there that are genuinely squicky or touch on something a bit deeper than a quick fright.
Not hugely recommended, but you might know some kids who'd really like it.
Following up we have the trade paperback collection of the first 6 issues of Artesia by Mark Smylie. He and his studio had a booth at GenCon this year. After reading this collection, I totally wish I'd stopped by and gotten something signed. The artwork is very good (rather European-style comic art), the story is engaging and the background is rock solid. Artesia is consort to a king, captain of his army, high priestess in his temples and a witch in her own right. Needless to say, the King really hates her. I really liked this and while it was mostly exposition and set-up, the action both military and mythical keeps right on rolling along. In fact, I was rather wishing that there was a bit more set-up so that we could see her rise to power a bit more fully. Anyway, this is definitely on my list of Trades to keep an eye out for.
later
Tom
