Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath Review

Samantha Strong is a pillar of the community in her small town of Woodbrook.

She’s also a serial killer.

Reunion by Fred Uhlman Review

1932, Stuttgart, and young Han Schwarz meets the aristocratic, isolated Konradin von Hohenfels. The two lonely boys begin a friendship that will echo through Hans’ life as he recalls this thrilling time set against the darkest era in Germany’s history.

Calamity Before Jane by Noah Van Sciver Review

Calamity Before Jane is Noah Van Sciver’s second of these educational comics on American folk heroes (the first was on Paul Bunyan) and it’s definitely the lesser of the two, though neither are that amazing.

Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel Review (Aimee de Jongh, William Golding)

Schoolboys survive a plane crash into a remote tropical island. It’s just them on the island - no other humans, no means of escape. How will they survive - what will happen to the boys without civilisation, without adult supervision for so long… and will they all make it back home?

We Will See You Bleed by Ron Currie Review

It’s the summer of 1984 and the workers for the local paper mill in Waterville, Maine, have been on strike for over a year - without progress. As the money of local families dries up, Babs Dionne, the head of the union, begins to contemplate desperate measures to end the deadlock and get her town back to work.

My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer Review

Dan’s in his 60s, retired and living in Dubai. He’s done well off of crypto - made some big money bags by being an earlier speculator of Bitcoin. Then he meets Vikki - the one who got away, the possible love of his life. And then… nothing! He warbles on about his life story until he doesn’t.

Unfinished Tales Review (Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips)

What if George R. R. Martin was given a secret ghost writer with a bag full of great ideas for how to finally end A Song of Ice and Fire - would he accept it, if it meant keeping the ghost writer’s identity a secret? And, if after delivering the finished manuscripts, what would he do if the ghost writer threatened to expose their secret - would he resort to murder?

Maple Terrace by Noah Van Sciver Review

It’s the early ‘90s and Noah Van Sciver is a kid living in New Jersey with his Mormon family. The kids in the town he lives in are all obsessed with superhero comics, including Noah and his siblings, and this is the time of the great comics boom when everyone thought comics were great investments and creators like Todd McFarlane were becoming millionaires. Spawn #5 is the hot new comic - it’s sold out everywhere but luckily Noah’s brother Ethan has a copy. But oh no - in his perpetual nervousness, Noah’s accidentally torn and ruined it! How will he replace it without getting caught?!

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan Review

The nameless narrator is a writer in a world where only a few dozen books have ever been written. He’s hounded by his ex Margaret, and, because talking tigers killed his folks, he lives in a compound called iDEATH where everything’s made of watermelon. A nearby villain called inBOIL lives in The Forgotten Works and grumbles about the integrity of iDEATH.

… riiiiight.