Finally, for the short stories, Dave Taylor’s artwork for ‘How To Succeed in Bizness (Without Getting Caught)’ is gorgeous, a beautiful blend of old-school Dredd and assorted European influences. Davis uses photo references, which works for everything apart from Dredd himself (or in this case, Rico, his younger clone) who looks like a flesh-coloured Mechanismo droid. Artist Simon Coleby shines in a couple of the shorts (‘My Beautiful Career’ and ‘It’s Your Funeral, Creep!’) and another Simon, Mr Davis, provides his usually impressive art for the Gorden Rennie-penned ‘Prodigal’. John Wagner writes for the dream team of Cam Kennedy and Henry Flint to illustrate, and it looks just as good as you’d expect. Some of the longer – Megazine – one-part stories deserving a mention include ‘Turkey Shoot’, a delight from start to finish, with laughs aplenty. Spoofing Ozzy Osbourne’s reality-TV show is the type of thing that often dates badly and writer Alan Grant and artist Ian Gibson’s satire is heavy-handed and poorly executed. ‘At Home With The Snozzburns’ is outstanding for all the wrong reasons. Many of the short tales are pretty unremarkable, with some exceptions. Fourteen are one-part tales, though for the Megazine stories that can mean anything from twelve to sixteen pages. The Complete Case Files 39 contains nineteen stories, ten from 2000 AD, and nine from its companion title, the Judge Dredd Megazine.
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That was about two years ago so fortunately, most of the books were published already. I discovered Dragon Actually by chance and after I finished it, I devoured the rest of the series. Aiken is Shelly Laurenston’s pseudonym for the Dragon Kin series, and that is how I started my love affair with her books. This book takes a first-ever look at the historical death ray and its impact on fiction and popular culture. The idea influenced fiction, making its way from newspapers and magazines into novels, short stories, films, theatrical productions and other media. Claims for its invention appeared as early as 1876, and increased thereafter, until the "death-ray craze" of the 1920s and 1930s. A concept born out of research with electricity and other energy sources, the death ray or "directed energy weapon" was widely reported for nearly five decades. 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I recently finished reading and reviewing another Tozer work, Delighting in God, and found it to be a profoundly challenging book with regards to how I approach God in prayer. “The instant cure of most our religious ills would be to enter the Presence in spiritual experience to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us.” (Tozer, The Pursuit of God, 38-39) When Rebecca is not working or writing, you can find her spending time with her family and her not so little puppy Neo. BFI's since the 6th grade, with a knack for getting into sticky situations, has resulted in countless ideas to write about for years to come. Austin has spent most of her adolescent and young adult years in constant pain due to her broken Empath powers that cause her to be a Receiver. The ELE Series is a best-selling Young Adult Science Fiction Romance series. Coined in southern twang they bring new meaning to the word y'all. From best-selling authors Rebecca Gober and Courtney Nuckels comes a new novella set 80-years after Project ELE. Rebecca and Courtney are downhome country girls powered by chocolate and other random late night cravings. A new publishing company that opened their doors in early 2013, whose content ratings for every book published gives them a unique presence in the market. In addition to being an author of six successful books, Rebecca is the CEO of Clean Teen Publishing. Ending ELE is scheduled to release in September 2013. Since then, Rebecca and Courtney have gone on to write Redemption, the sequel to Night Marchers and three books in The ELE Series: Project ELE, Finding ELE and Exposing ELE. Rebecca Gober's first series, The Night Marchers Series, which she co-authored with her best friend and partner in crime, Courtney Nuckels, was released in e-book format in October of 2011. In between working full time, being a wife and mother of two, Rebecca has never let her passion for reading and fiction fall through the cracks. Rebecca Gober was born in Houston, Texas in 1982 and spent most of her life growing up in Dallas, Texas. |
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