Lord Samper's Library

It’s kind of nice to get to Thursday and realise that no matter how hectic this week has been so far, I’ve still managed to get a decent bit of reading under my belt and write about it here. And I’ve noticed a little pattern to my weekly posts; which often start off with a full length book (or two) before moving on to comic books and finally short stories. That’s a pretty big clue as to how my energy levels progress over a week ;o) Well, I changed the order slightly this week and that’s what happens when my day in the office gets brought forward a couple of days. It wouldn’t feel the same, here, without a comic book post though so… Lets take a quick look at a couple that I’ve had on the go… ‘Die!Die!Die!’ Volume 1 – Kirkman, Gimple, Burnham, Fairbairn (Image Comics) Page Count: 128 Pages We don't like to admit it, but this is an evil world where evil people do evil stuff all the time. Thankfully, there is a secret cabal with the United States government that works outside our nor...

  Page Count: 168 Pages Newsagents everywhere hate me for this but I’ve got a habit of saving winning scratch-cards and cashing them in en masse. Luckily for all concerned, it’s only a problem when I have a run of good luck ;o) A bit of an odd way to open a post here then but essentially, that’s what led me to ‘Plunge’; a small run of winning scratch-cards and a need to be out of my ex’s house for a bit. Well, more like the eldest cats need for me to be out of my ex’s house for a bit, I’m considerate like that ;o) I love some horror, in my comic book reading, and while I’d never heard of ‘Plunge’, Joe Hill’s name on the front cover did exactly what it was placed there to do. Chemotherapy has knocked a few holes in my memory but I promise, this is really the last of the books that I read over the Bank Holiday Weekend... PLUNGE INTO TERROR!  In 1983, a state-of-the-art drilling ship, the Derleth, vanished near the Arctic Circle. Decades later, it has begun sending a distress cal...