They don’t have the weapons they need to fight back. They don’t have the knowledge of what’s going on in the world. Rebel, by Amy Tintera, is about how Wren and Callum are forced into a series of situations they are grossly ill-equipped for. I’ve read some bad YA fiction (really bad, see this review if you need proof), and this series was nowhere near that! So sorry, haters, but Reboot and Rebel do not belong on the DNF list. But these are things I’ve come to expect from the genre, particularly when the protagonist is female. Yes, some of the tropes were predictable (again, as YA often is). Yes, there is a lot of kissing and handholding (as I often find there are in such YA books). Not because it’s bad, but because some people are just overly critical. Let me kick things off by saying that this series has a bad rep. Rebel struck a perfect balance between action and pacing. The conclusion was just epic enough in Rebel to keep me turning the pages, but not so much that I was overwhelmed by everything that happened. I have to say it’s been a while since I’ve found a series of books I read as quickly as Amy Tintera’s Reboot series.
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The movie then opened and closed so fast there was little time to determine what went wrong (and if anything went right). The trailers certainly made the movie look lighthearted and wonky, much like the comic source material so there was reason to be encouraged. He had certainly improved as an actor, as witnessed by Fear Itself and his recurring role on Chuck. Then I saw that this was going to Brandon Routh’s third film based on a comic book and figured he was 1 for 2 so far (entertaining in Scott Pilgrim, not served well by Superman Return’s lousy script) and might improve his average. That the Italian comic has been running for decades also spoke to its creative spark and the genius of Tiziano Sclavi. A PI in the world of things that go bump in the night sounded like a lot of fun. I first encountered the legend of Dylan Dog back when I was trying to cover foreign comics while at Comics Scene and then wrote about the film adaptation a while back over at Famous Monster of Filmland. He gets out his own guitar and plays a duet with the boy, who appears to be intellectually disabled, maybe inbred, but with great musical skills. At a gas station in a mountain hamlet, Drew sees a local albino boy playing a banjo. The men drive into the mountains with two canoes. Besides Ed, the protagonists are insurance salesman Bobby Trippe, soft drink executive Drew Ballinger, and landlord Lewis Medlock, a physically fit outdoorsman who has promoted the canoe trip. It's a last chance to travel on this wild river, which is scheduled to be dammed to create a reservoir and generate hydropower. Narrated in the first person by Ed Gentry, a graphic artist and one of the four main characters, the novel opens with him and three friends, all middle-aged men who live in a large city in Georgia, planning a weekend canoe trip down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the northwest Georgia wilderness. In 2005, the novel was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same name directed by John Boorman. Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. Currently-lives in New York, New York, and Boulder Creek, California.Awards-National Book Award Whiting Writer's Award James Tait Memorial Prize.Education-B.A., Swarthmore College Fulbright Scholar at Freie Universitat in Berlin.And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears.ĭesperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. The ins and outs of the battle over Miracleman are complex and disputed, and I won’t try to recount them all here. And, perhaps most tragically, the legal fight over Miracleman showed the world just how petty comics professionals could be. Second, it was arguably the ballsiest superhero story ever told when it began publication in 1982 - overflowing with deconstructionist ideas and chilling violence. First off, it was one of the earliest superhero works by Alan Moore, the legendary comics writer who would go on to pen opuses like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Batman: The Killing Joke, and many more. This was an artistic tragedy for a number of reasons. But for comics diehards, its release is nothing short of (forgive the unintentional pun, but no other word seems appropriate) miraculous.įor decades, it was an article of faith that the world would never see a legal reprinting of Miracleman, a seminal British series of the 1980s (it was originally titled Marvelman, but we’ll get to that in a moment). Such joy might seem like overkill to an outsider - after all, the book is merely a collection of superhero comics published more than 30 years ago. As I held Marvel’s just-released Miracleman Book One: A Dream of Flying in my hands a few days ago, my fingers trembled and these thoughts overtook me: Dreams can come true. |