Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 208 Pages Every so often, I’ll be watching Prime Video and it’ll throw me an advert for ‘Invincible’; the one where this huge creature tells a bunch of superheroes to surrender and Omni-Man just says ‘No!’ I don’t know why but that always makes me laugh. Anyway… I’ve seen that advert enough times now that the other day, I finally shrugged my shoulders and figured I’d give it a go. As someone whose ‘soap opera of choice’ was the X-Men cartoon, it was always going to happen. Me being me though, I thought I’d pick up Volume 1 of the book and give that a go first. And I’ve got to ask… Does it get better? Mark Grayson is just like everyone else his age; except his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet – Omni-Man. When Mark develops powers of his own, it’s a dream come true. But living up to his father’s legacy is only the beginning of his problems… ‘Invincible Vol.1’ isn’t a bad read, lets get that straight from the start. It knows the assignment and duly del...

It hasn't been a bad week but it has felt like there's been more of it than I'd normally expect, mostly because I've been trying to fit five days of work into a four day week (Easter Bank Holiday Weekend and all that). I got there though and now I'm looking at a week's holiday next week, I reckon I'll do better managing my time there ;o) Anyway... I started things off yesterday with a trip into Greenwich and a little nose around the market for books and lamb samosas. I was successful in my hunt for lamb samosa (they were lovely!) but the market didn't really yield anything in the way of books. I mean, there were a few 'Star Wars' books but they all seemed to be 'middle of the series' books and I didn't fancy playing that game. Oh well, that's the way the 'hunt' goes every now and then. Luckily for me, a quick stop at the Greenwich Oxfam turned a 'fruitless book hunt' into a 'fruitful book hunt' so my plans ...

  Page Count: 136 Pages How cool would it be if I could have coloured the word ‘Blood’ in red…? Yep, I’m looking at ten days with no work and I’m feeling just how you’d expect at the prospect of not doing an awful lot ;o) Anyway… I may well be fifty now but I’m still not above doing things like promising myself a new comic book if I made it through last week’s MRI scan without freaking out. Look, I know how I work and what the pressure points are ;o) I made it through the scan (just waiting on the results, I don’t think there’ll be anything to worry about though) so the next time I found myself near a Waterstones, I had the ideal reason to go in and not come out until I’d bought something. I always enjoy the ‘Alien’ movies but while I’ve got a few of the books on my shelves, I’ve always shied away from them as I can’t help but wonder… How many times can you tell what is essentially the same story? And again, don’t get me wrong (love the movies) but the whole point of the Aliens is ...

This should have been yesterday’s post but we all know what happened there… Right, lets have another go at writing this post… :o) Just a couple of short stories for you today (because that’s all I was good for the other day). I’m trying to make inroads into some of the ‘non-Warhammer’ fiction on my shelves but I missed the good stuff and decided to compromise by dipping a toe into the setting. Not literally of course, dip a toe into some of those battlefields and you stand a good chance of losing your whole leg, and that’s if you’re lucky ;o) C.L. Werner is always a safe bet for a good ‘Warhammer Fantasy’ or ‘Age of Sigmar’ read and this time, I thought I’d go for a ‘Warhammer 40K’ read of his as well. One ended up being a lot more enjoyable than the other; it’s not too hard to work out which one was which… ;o) ‘Black Dawn’ (Victories of the Space Marines) Page Count: 31 Pages An artefact from the Great Crusade - a bolt pistol used by Roboute Guilliman himself - is unearthed on the pla...

This was meant to be a book post, then it became a comic book post and then it was going to be a post about a couple of short stories that I had on the go. And then... I fell asleep last night and I'll be honest, I'm struggling to stay awake today. Bloody chemo tablets... :o) Anyway... All the book stuff has been pushed back a day or two and what we have instead is another trailer for 'Backrooms'. I'm up for this, how about you? Normal service to resume tomorrow (fingers crossed)

  Page Count: 393 Pages Now here is a book that I originally bought back in October 2022 (thanks for the reminder Amazon) with every aim of reading and… Didn’t. Don’t judge me. I am at the mercy of my reading whims, always have been and always will be. Anyway, I ended up giving that copy to my eldest daughter and she really enjoyed it. All’s well that ends well ;o) Fast forward to about a week ago, I was in the office and that days ‘commute read’ wasn’t working’ at all; I needed something to get me home and there’s a Waterstones just round the corner from the office so… In I went :o) You can see where this is going, can’t you? Almost four years after I let my original copy of ‘The Final Girl Support Group’ fly the nest, I found myself with another copy and a bus ride home to crack it open. It took me a little while to get into it but this weekend, just gone, ended up being the best time to sit down and polish off ‘The Final Girl Support Group’. Let me tell you about it :o) In horr...