Emily Carrington recounts being raped at the age of 15 by an acquaintance of her father’s, who was 40 years old, in her memoir Our Little Secret. She goes into the circumstances leading up to the incident on Prince Edward Island, Canada, (she had horrible parents and went to live with her father when they divorced), and its lasting impact on her life, as well as her lengthy journey in trying to seek justice, after she spotted the abuser 27 years later in 2010, by taking her case to the courts.
DC needs to put out another Batman title to make up their quota of 20 Batman books a month and Fables is relaunching because nostalgia-bait, so why not bundle up the two in one crappy crossover - it’s time for Batman vs Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham.
To infiltrate and uncover the secret diabolical plans of a new Soviet outfit called Stalnaya Ruka, James Bond must pretend to assassinate M and turn traitor. But once back in the Russians’ hands, will Bond remain mentally sound enough to accomplish his mission or will his KGB brainwashing overpower him?
Forest Innman, a film archivist, and his son Orson drive out to a remote Californian rest home for the elderly on a quest to track down the elusive old-timey writer/director, TF Merrit. Forest is a fan of Merrit’s supposedly lost 1946 masterpiece, Night of the Ghoul, and hopes to find the final reel of the film from the man who might know where it is. But what Forest doesn’t realise is that the horror fiction in the movie is actually real - and the Ghoul is not far away…
The dead were just the beginning - now it’s time for Rick Grimes and co. to take on an alien invasion!Uh… ok.
Frank Miller and John Romita Jr retell Daredevil’s origin story once again in Daredevil: The Man Without Fear. Jack Murdock, Stick, Foggy Nelson, Elektra, Kingpin - it’s like Miller’s going through a checklist of the usual suspects, so, if you’ve read the Daredevil origin a few times by now like me, there’s not much here that’ll hold your attention. It’s not the worst retelling of the origin though, so there’s that at least for new readers, but it does have some weird/silly aspects to it that is all Miller unfortunately.
After going to the doctor to try and resolve her back issues, 32 year old Catherine Pioli discovers her platelet and red and white blood cell counts are alarmingly low. She’s eventually diagnosed as having acute lymphocytic leukemia - Down to the Bone is the account of her experience from diagnosis through the months of agonising treatment.
Weyland-Yutani, aka The Company That Never Learns Because Then There’d Be No Aliens Franchise, has a space station orbiting Earth that’s definitely not got a biolab containing Xenomorphs in it. And said Xenomorphs would never break free and run rampant around the station while dudes with guns flap around getting gored by the Xenomorphs. Naaah, this is a totally original, fresh take on… yeah, no, it’s the same old bollocks all over again.
Superman’s gotta leave the planet for reasons so it’s down to his recently back from the future son, Jon Kent, to pick up the mantle and be Earth’s new Man of Steel. Meanwhile, a banana republic tyrant is doing dodgy stuff with metahumans and who decides to target Jon once he involves himself in his bizness.
Geoff Dyer’s latest nonfiction book is about last things - last days in a career, a life, lastness generally - that takes the form of a rambling narrative recounting experiences and cultural things that have happened to and around the author.
A union leader representing workers on the new subway system thinks he’s become the target of a shady Robert Moses-type called Solomon, whose rival suspension bridge seems to be competing for the same future New York traffic, so he hires John Blacksad to help him out. Meanwhile, Weekly falls for an actress and begins looking into Solomon’s dealings.
Nagata Kabi’s latest is another autobiographical manga, this time about love and dating and gender and suchlike. You’d think the author of a book called “My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness” would have figured out her sexuality by now but apparently not.
