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‘Skinbreaker’ #2 and ‘Savage Sword of Conan’ #10

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It has taken me a little longer, than planned, to get to these two comics but yesterday ended up being the day I finally opened them for a read. I am a good way into Keith Rosson’s ‘Fever House’ (which has been brilliant so far) but there was no way I was going to finish it, for a post today, so I took a short break to catch up with ‘Skinbreaker’ and ‘Savage Sword of Conan’ instead. Quick thoughts follow (yesterday was a little heavy going and today could well be more of the same)… ‘Skinbreaker’ #2 – Kirkman, Finch (Image) The challenge has been made and a new Elder will be chosen through trial by combat. Can Anok do the right thing for his tribe though? And whatever the outcome, what will the future hold…? Okay, I did not see that coming… The fight between Anok and Enor is handled just right; it has to end one way but there is a lot of subtext happening that fleshes things out and says a lot about Anok’s character. This approach dovetails with more superb artwork to create a really co...
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‘Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy’ – Terrance Dicks (Target)

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  Page Count: 110 Pages With ‘The Siege of Terra’ books done and dusted, and a couple of other large books lurking in the TBR Pile, I thought I’d read something slim and give myself a break before tackling another ‘500 Pager’. And as we all know (well, you do now), books don’t come a lot slimmer than the old ‘Doctor Who’ Target novelizations. ‘Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy’ lays a firm claim to being the slimmest of the lot, clocking in at a ‘waif-like’ 110 pages. I’ve never watched the serial (need to do something about that) so I was interested to read this book but was also left wondering how much story there would actually be. I was after a short book though so, off I went… Before we get into it, a random thought. I’m assuming that’s ‘The Nucleus’ on the front cover but… Is it the Nucleus or has a slightly disheveled Firey made it out of the Labyrinth and into this book? Could be either but all I’m saying is that I’ve never seen a Firey and the Nucleus together in the same...
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‘The End and the Death: Volume 3’ – Dan Abnett (Black Library)

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  Page Count: 487 Pages I still have a large number of ‘Horus Heresy’ and ‘Siege of Terra’ books to get to and through (and given how much some of these go for on the second hand market…) but I’d say that I’ve now read enough to get the broad strokes of the Heresy and its conclusion. Most of the opening books, a large chunk of the ones in the middle and now, I’ve finally finished ‘The End and the Death’ with Volume 3. And… Damn. I’ve been dipping in and out of Warhammer 40K for years now so I knew how this one was going to end (how it had to end). Despite that, Dan Abnett still had a few tricks left, up his sleeve, that caught me out and ended this series on a real high note The Great Angel, Sanguinius, lies slain at his brother’s hand. Terra burns as reality itself unravels and the greatest bastion of civilisation teeters on the brink of annihilation. Desperate defenders gather, rallying against the rabid traitor hordes. The Hollow Mountain, host to the pilgrims of Euphrati Keeler...
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Movie Night! ‘Cinderella Double-Bill’ Edition

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I managed to get a fair bit read this last week, mostly related to the last couple of books of the ‘Siege of Terra’ series. Yep, I’m reading ‘Era of Ruin’ now but that’s just mopping up the last little bits of story; the main feature is well and truly done now (I still have some gaps to fill in but, you know what I mean) and even though I knew the broad strokes of the tale, I’m not quite sure how I feel about the whole thing. I’ll see if I can get my thoughts in order for a post tomorrow. In the meantime, this has also been a week of watching movies (sick-leave is doing me so much good…) and that’s what I’m here to talk about right now. I’m hoping the title of the post has you a little intrigued but, I’m going to start with something completely different ;o) This last week, I watched… Every Single ‘Scream’ movie. Apparently, ‘Scream 7’ isn’t too far away so I thought that this last week was as good a time as any to have go through the franchise again, ‘Scream 6’ being a first time view...
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‘The Salt Grows Heavy’ – Cassandra Khaw (Titan Books)

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  Page Count: 125 Pages ‘The Salt Grows Heavy’ has only sat on the TBR Pile since February this year; that’s actually not bad going, given how long certain other books (naming no names…) have gone unread. What’s the longest you’ve had a book sit unread in your TBR Pile? No judgment here ;o) And, look at me…De-railing my own post before it has even got going. Sorry, yesterday was one of those kind of days (you know the ones). Lets try again. I’ve been trying to get on top of the piles of books in my living room (not literally, although that could be fun) and while sorting through one pile, I found my copy of ‘The Salt Grows Heavy’, nestled between two old Abaddon Books collections. I needed a little break from my current read and the slender page count (and blurb) suggested a short, but intriguing, diversion. So I settled down for a read, yesterday evening, and… Myths are full of lies. This is not one of them. Fleeing the downfall of an empire, a mermaid and her plague doctor comp...
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‘The Art of Ian Miller’ – Ian Miller & Tom Wyte (Titan Books)

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I was going to say that I wasn't sure what happened yesterday but... I know exactly what happened :o) I kicked things off with a visit from the insomnia fairy, dragged myself out to walk my youngest up to school, watched a bit of telly/napped and then back out to pick said youngest up from school. An evening at mine, involving more telly, food and chat. Then I dropped her off back at her Mum's and it was back to mine to round things off with even more telly ('Scream 6') You'd never have thought that I'm having memory problems, would you? ;o) You can see what's missing though... There wasn't any time for reading or posting about what I'd read. Dammit, I'll see if I can make up for that today. In the meantime, I've been dipping in and out of 'The Art of Ian Miller' (lost my old copy, managed to track another one down fairly recently) and thought I'd make use of an older post, that I wrote way back in 2014 , to give myself a little b...
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‘We Are Here To Hurt Each Other’ – Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating Books)

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  Page Count: 131 Pages I’m still not a hundred percent sure how I feel about it but it’s like someone told my phone that I like horror fiction and now it likes to recommend stuff to me. Which is nice of it, don’t get me wrong, it just feels a little disconcerting to be reading some horror, only to have my phone beep and suggest that I read something else instead. I’m not ready for this kind of interaction with my phone; in the words of Murtaugh, I’m too old for this shit ;o) Anyway… The other day, my phone beeped and pointed me at an article on The Quietus, their list of ‘The Best 25 Pieces of Horror Fiction of the 21st Century (So Far)’ . For the hell of it, I thought I’d have a read. I added a few books to my Amazon wishlist (because of course I did) but when I read that Paula D. Ashe is a ‘self-confessed Hellraiser obsessive’, I ordered ‘We Are Here To Hurt Each Other’ straight away. I'm a bit of a Hellraiser obsessive too (all of them, even that one). It’s only 131 pages long ...
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