Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 120 Pages (taken from the ‘Legends of the Waaagh!’ Collection, where the print size is tiny, my poor eyes…) I wasn’t a big reader of ‘Black Library’ books back in 2015 (when ‘I Am Slaughter’ was first published) so I pretty much missed all of the ‘Beast Arises’ series, both as individual volumes and again when it was reprinted in omnibus editions (a couple of years later). To be fair, those years weren’t good for reading anything at all, that’s another story though. As far as things stand then (and given the price these books go for second-hand), it looks like I’ll be getting my history of ‘The War of the Beast’ via the likes of Lexicanum. That’s part of the reason I picked up ‘Legends of the Waaagh!’ The inclusion of ‘I Am Slaughter’ means that even if I don’t get to read the rest of the series, at least I got to see how it all kicked off. And… It is the thirty-second millennium and the Imperium is at peace. The Traitor Legions of Chaos are but a distant memory and t...

Well, they should have done but they didn’t; I just really (really) wanted to use that as the title for todays post :o) Sorry, it’s been one of those weeks, not the worst week ever but far from a favourite. Oh well, it’s over and done with now. Anyway… A week like that normally involves me heading to Forbidden Planet at some point, just to try and dull the pain a little. That’s what I did yesterday, here are some quick thoughts on a couple of comics that I picked up (and one that I should have posted about earlier but… didn’t) ‘Hillbilly: The Treason of Twelve-Toe Maggie #1’ – Eric Powell (Dark Horse Comics/Albatross Funnybooks) It has been an absolute age since I’ve read any ‘Hillbilly’ (or anything by Eric Powell for that matter) so it was kind of nice to see ‘Hillbilly’ on the shelf and remember that Powell is still out there, doing his thing. And ‘The Treason of Twelve-Toe Maggie’ is only three issues long so of course I had to take it home for a read. I’ll be honest, I’m going to ...

  Page Count: 220 Pages This blog has been running long enough now that I should probably stop mentioning how movie novelizations were essential reading, for me, back in the eighties. It’s not like you haven’t heard me say it already. They were though ;o) Anyway… I still have a soft spot for these books, and I never got round to watching ‘The Descent’ back in the day, so when I saw the novelization in Waterstones… Well, it pretty much bought itself. I’m already a fan of Francis’ novelization of ‘Session 9’ so that made things even easier ;o) After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive not only the monsters, but also each other. I’ll be honest, I struggled to finish ‘The Descent’ but not for the reasons you might think. Takin...

  As a rule, I generally stay away from Warhammer 40k stories that have Orks as main characters. Nothing against them per se; it’s just that as with the Hulk in the MCU, I think Orks make far better antagonists/supporting characters than leads. That’s just me though, feel free to tell me that I’m wrong and point me at something that I should be reading ;o) Anyway, that’s the reason I’d stayed away from the ‘Legends of the Waaagh!’ collection, until now that is :o) The blurb is there for a reason… I took a look, saw mention of at least one old favourite, and decided to give the book a go after all ;o) You will always find a few short stories in these collections and I figured I’d start things off with a quick post about those. And it has ended up being an even quicker post than I’d planned as I’ve already spoken about Dan Abnett’s ‘Ork Hunter’ over Here . Which leads me onto a quick rant, hold on… This is the second time that I’ve come across ‘the same story featured in two separate...

This is the post you get when the book I'm reading is taking far too long to get going and I don't leave myself enough time to finish anything else. Hopefully I'll finish something today and have a 'book post' for you tomorrow. Fingers crossed... ;o) In the meantime, the 'V/H/S/' franchise is pretty much my favourite 'Horror Anthology' series and this latest entry has Muppets in it (well, more like 'escapees' from Jim Henson's Workshop but, you know what I mean) so of course I was going to post the trailer :o) Here it is... 'V/H/S/ Mixtape' will be aired, on Shudder, on the 9th of October so you'll probably have my thoughts around about the 10th... Anyway, back to the books ;o)

A slightly extended weekend break from the blog, sorry about that :o) To cut a long, and not very exciting, story short… The comfy chair has gone to wherever comfy chairs go when they are no longer that comfy (the ‘tip’ in Lewisham) and I was left with a selection of chairs that are functional but not the kind of chair you can curl up in and read for a few hours. The search for a new comfy chair starts… Here :o) Anyway… Not a lot of reading happened over the weekend (hardly any actually) but I did manage to watch a few movies. Let me tell you about them… ‘The Descent’ (2005)   A caving expedition goes horribly wrong when a cave-in leaves the party trapped in unfamiliar tunnels with no idea how to escape. And while they can’t see what is stalking them through the tunnels, it can hear them… I’m reading the novelization, of ‘The Descent’, at the moment so when I saw the film was free to watch on Prime, well… I’d never seen it before so I had to give it a go :o) And… Well. It wasn’t a ...