If you like horror novels but wish they had more floor plans, this is the book for you!The author is approached by a friend who’s thinking of buying his first house - but it’s got a weird layout. Uketsu and his architect buddy look into it and wild theories - that of course prove true - start flying about this being a murder house. The previous occupants being the Japanese Bloody Benders, murdering guests who stay in their house! But whyyyy…
Magneto dies (again) creating an apocalyptic electro-magnetic pulse that wipes out all power on Earth, killing millions. With the remaining Brotherhood of Evil Mutants controlling the planet’s final reactor, Nick Fury rallies the surviving Avengers for a last ditch heist to secure it - and fails. With everyone dead at the hands of the Brotherhood, it’s down to Wolverine… to get Revenge!
Brian is a quiet civil servant who slowly becomes a regular patron of the British Film Institute (BFI) and a part of the small community of film buffs who congregate every night at the South Bank to watch that night’s programming.
Someone’s targeting young offenders straight outta juvie - their corpses found drained of blood! Batman’s gotta solve the case, etc.Fresh from his success reinvigorating Nightwing, Tom Taylor’s taken over the iconic Detective Comics title for a run that starts underwhelmingly with Mercy of the Father.
If you’ve read Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland novels, you’ll know the drill by now and if you haven’t they’re about a book editor who keeps finding herself embroiled in murder mysteries that have an uncanny resemblance to an Agatha Christie-ish mystery that runs parallel to her own.
The Ruskies have nicked weaponised water - “stalvoda”, literally “steel water”, which instantly freezes after exploding - from the Brits, who originally nicked it from the Ruskies during the Soviet era. Bond’s gotta - sigh - nick it back. International espionage, eh?
Apparently one of the great scientific mysteries of the 19th century was how exactly a horse moves at a gallop(!) with the keenest scientific minds insisting that they run like a frog jumps. It would take the fortune of the richest man in America, Leland Stanford, and the ingenuity of a British photographer whose parents didn’t know how to spell “Edward”, Eadweard Muybridge, to prove otherwise. All that and more in Guy Delisle’s latest book, a comics bio of weird Ed Muybridge!
