Book Reviews



Marvel and The Folio Society Team Up For Collector’s Edition…

From The Folio Society edition of Marvel: The Golden Age 1939–1949 © 2019 Marvel In celebration of the 80th anniversary of Marvel Comics #1, The Folio Society has joined legendary Marvel editor Roy Thomas to form a super-powered team-up of…


Travels with Walt Disney: A Photographic Voyage around the World – Jeff Kurtti (Disney Editions)

Mark Twain famously said that travel was fatal to narrow mindedness and believed that if a person didn’t venture beyond, or dream about the world outside of, the confines of their birthplace during their lifetime,…


Walt’s Imagination: The Life of Walt Disney – Doreen Rappaport & John Pomeroy (Disney / Hyperion)

Some people, the elusive few who always seek to further their vision and dreams, manage to cram hundred lifetimes’ worth of experience and achievement into their brief time on Earth. Walt Disney was one of…






The Colorado Kid: New Illustrated Edition – Stephen King (Hard Case Crime /Titan Books)

A while back someone told me that Haven, the SyFy Channel’s show about small town weirdness and strange histories, was based on a Stephen King book. Being something of a King fan, I immediately dismissed…


Crossover The Edge: Where Hardcore, Punk and Metal Collide – Alexandros Anesiadis (Cherry Red Books)

The first “Hardcore” record that I heard, and fell in love with, was a Crossover record. I didn’t know it at the time and it was another three or four months before I found out…