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‘Invincible – Volume 2’ – Kirkman, Ottley, Crabtree (Image)

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  Page Count: 152 Pages Was it really five months ago that I read ‘Invincible Vol.1’ and… wasn’t a hundred percent convinced? Well, I trust my blog a lot more than I do my memory, these days, so yes, yes it was ;o) To be fair, I did enjoy Volume 1, I was just left wondering how much mileage there could be in a story where Invincible had it all laid out for him, ready to have it all. The powers, the costume, the evil father… Hang on :o) The Guardians of the Globe are dead. Now, Mark Grayson must try to fill their role as Earth’s newest superhero – Invincible. But there’s one question on everyone’s minds: who killed them? Think, Mark. Think! Sometimes, being the last one to the party can actually be a good thing as I don’t have to worry too much about spoilers when I’m writing these posts ;o) I’m going to assume that if you haven’t read the books already then you’ve more than likely watched the show on Prime. Or maybe you just read the Wikipedia entries and never got round to either...
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‘Meat Bees’ – Dane Erbach (Clash Books)

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  Page Count: 270 Pages As a kid, I used to be scared of flies (especially the big fat bluebottles) but that was a long time ago now. It took a little longer with bees but I got stung a few times and that pretty much got it out of my system. Wasps though… I fear and hate them in equal measure; angry, vicious grudge-bearing little bastards that seem to exist purely to make your summer miserable. And it has been a long, hot summer… :o( In the (slightly altered) words of Kyle Reese, "They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!" So when I heard that there was a new horror novel that was all about wasps… Of course I had to read it ;o) Jaws with wasps. By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn’t know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally ...
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Trailer - 'Black Sheeps' (2026)

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I didn't have a lot to say about 'Black Sheep', when I watched it in October last year , mostly because I was on sick leave and struggling to say much about anything... Anyway. Despite my reticence, I always enjoy watching 'Black Sheep' so when I saw that a sequel was on the way? I said 'finally...' and came straight here to post the trailer :o) Check it out... I'll be honest... 'Black Sheeps' looks like it's really only going to be for those of us who found 'Back Sheep' funny back in 2006. I count myself fortunate enough to be one of those number though, so... :o)
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More Bits and Pieces…

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Yesterday was one of those days where I woke up feeling pretty rough, took myself to the comfy chair, for breakfast, and then dozed until lunchtime. I woke up, still feeling pretty rough, so decided to take the hint and not push it. I left job hunting for the evening and settled down with a little reading, and some TV on the side. Let me tell you about it… ‘Hellraiser Resurrections: The Deep Gospel #1’ – Howard, Cha, Simpson (Boom!) In which the Female Cenobite finds a new identity, and new companions… Two issues in, or so I thought… Yesterday, I found out that the series is actually three issues old and I missed the first one. I’ll have to do something about that.  In the meantime, ‘The Deep Gospel’ has a lot going for it, whether it stands alone or is the start of something longer. I’ll admit that I don’t know a lot about the setting, outside of the ‘Hellraiser’ movies, so Howard’s deep dive into the realm of the Cenobites really filled in those gaps, all grimly drawn by Jenna Ch...
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Books for the TBR Pile... 'Post Birthday' Edition

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Yep, I'm one year older (again) and despite the various bits and pieces going on right now, I can confirm that my 'fifties' are still much better than my 'forties' were. Trust me, if you're hovering at forty-nine and feeling a little nervous... you've got nothing to worry about ;o) Anyway... For the sake of a little alliteration, yesterdays Birthday was all about the 'Four Bs'; bacon, burgers, bonbons and books (I mean, plenty of other stuff happened as well, and it was awesome, but, you know...) I ate the burgers & bacon and I'm working my way through the bonbons but, that's not what you're here for; lets take a look at the books... I've heard a lot of good things about 'There Is No Antimemetics Division' and going by the first couple of chapters, I'm even more certain that I'm in for a good read. I've officially bumped this book up to the top of the TBR pile so am hoping to have something a little more detai...
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‘Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time’ – Terrance Dicks (Target)

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  Page Count: 142 Pages Apologies for the lack of blog post yesterday… I’m not quite sure why my laptop decided to act up but it got to a point where I had to choose between blog and job-hunting and unfortunately, there was no contest. Anyway, we’re here now, lets see how it goes… :o) After a day spent wrestling with (quite frankly) a ‘sulky laptop’, I wasn’t really up for too much reading but wanted to keep a little momentum going. Luckily for me, I have a small pile of ‘Doctor Who’ novelisations on hand for just this kind of situation ;o) This time round, I thought I’d go for ‘The Invasion of Time’; a book that I’d read, way back in the day, but never actually seen on TV. And I’d pretty much forgotten the plot anyway so it was like picking it up for the first time ;o) A traitor to the Time Lords? Can the Doctor really be in league with the evil Vardans, spearheading a treacherous invasion of his home planet, Gallifrey? Or is he playing a deadly double game, saving the Time Lords ...
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‘Shared World’ – Ball, Chomichuk, Gillespie, Ginther (Stranger Fiction)

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  Page Count: 142 Pages There are a few things that will guarantee that I pick up a book, for a further inspection, and… A number of those things are on the cover of this book :o) I literally had no choice in the matter, I had to pick the book and take a look. The blurb pretty much sold it to me… A home to reavers and rakes, sorcerers and slayers, undead kings and undying things – expanding a page at a time in the stories added by its authors. In the once lands, a lineage of sorcerous wayfinders work to keep godlike monstrosities locked behind the crumbling walls of cursed cities, by allowing the vengeful ghosts of forest gods to inhabit their living flesh. In the wild wastes, tribes of cannibal huntresses fight to balance the old ways and new in a struggle to keep their culture alive by trading in death. In the sprawling city of Khyber, ambitions dance on sword edges while clans of thieves and reavers clutch at power. Welcome to… Shared World. Yep, I was sold. ‘Shared World’ came ...
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