I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

 

Stephen Graham Jones has written another New York Times bestselling book that takes place in Lamesa, Texas and Tolly Driver who is looking back on the summer of 1989 when he was seventeen. Tolly's dad had died a year before in a car accident. He only has his mother who owns a hardware store and his best friend from school, Amber Dennison, the only Native living in town`.  Amber drives a Rabbit truck that runs on diesel.  The two are very close but not in a romantic way.  They are not in the marching band or the Future Farmers of America which puts them on the outside looking in. 

Tolly likes to go to parties and get drunk, throw up and make a fool of himself.  For the most part the other students ignore him because he no longer has a father.  Stace Goodkin is one of those people who gets great grades and follows the rules.  One night, the In Crowd decides to show Justin Joss a lesson in why he would never be a part of their crowd by taking him to a oil pump horse, one of those machines that bobs up and down like a bronco horse.  They convinced him to climb on top and ride.  Justin ended up mutilated by the machine.  Stace tried to help him, but only managed to distract Justin into causing more damage to himself.

The In Crowd throws a party one night and Tolly, as usual, is plastered.  He got the brilliant idea to do a cannonball in the pool getting everyone nearby soaking wet.  One of them was a baton twirler in the marching band named Shannon who is sitting at a table flirting with a cute older guy.  Tolly has a severe allergy to peanuts, so Shannon's date who puts peanuts in his Coke makes Tolly drink it.  He has a major reaction and his EpiPen is in Amber's car.  The band members take their belts off their uniforms and tie Tolly to a lounge chair.  He starts throwing up to try to get rid of the peanuts.  

Amber and Stace are talking inside the house when Stace sees into the backyard Tolly convulsing on the lounge chair.  Stace, a gymnast, vaults into action to get his EpiPen to him.  She injects him and her and Amber start trying to get him out of the restraints.  Suddenly, the dead Justin Joss appears with a chainsaw and begins to kill those at the party who were responsible for his death.  Even Stace is included in this because she was there.  He doesn't kill her, but hurts her really bad.  Stace had called her doctor father to help Tolly so he's coming and the police likely are too.  There's also Justin to contend with so, everyone runs off.  

Unfortunately, Tolly gets a splash of Justin's blood on his forehead.  When he wipes it away, it goes into an open wound on his forehead.  This will cause Tolly to go psycho and start his own killing spree.   And while the Tolly looking back hasn't killed anyone since, he's recounting this to explain how he became a psycho for a while.  This is a sharp book that nails high school life and living in West Texas on the head.  Its also the perfect book for today, Halloween.

Quotes

Amber...leaned against the steering wheel to shove her own hand down under the front of he seat, closing her eyes to let her fingers see better. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p7)

You think big thoughts when you're seventeen. Big stupid thoughts. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p9)

My kind don't exactly do  funerals.  I know.  We're the reason for the funeral. Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher (p25)

Make enough of an ass of yourself, you get noticed, right? (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p22)

Still? I'd just lost my dada year ago, hadn't I?  This--me being an idiot--was probably some stage of grief. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p28)

Someone not necessarily full of promise, but full of promises. Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher (p66)

His two big sayings that year, both of which applied that night, were that nothing good happens after midnight, and that the grass really wasn't that much greener on the other side of fifty-five miles per hour.  Though it could get bloodier real damn fast. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p64-5)

Its less about survival, more about who you're holding when that big irradiated shock wave blows you to ash. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p66)

The world's so much simpler when you've got a chainsaw in your hand, isn't it? A chainsaw, or a machete or an axe, that's the elegant solution to every problem. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p67)

You always want your mom when you're hurt. When you call you're dad is when you've done something he can maybe be proud of. For pain, though, it's moms all the way. Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher (p128)

We all want to hide, don't we?  To not have to be constantly navigating between our true selves and people's expectations twenty-four seven. (Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher p136)

   

Dear Faithful Reader,

 I am sorry I have been gone these months. I have been gravely ill and have been unable to read or publish here. But soon I will have some new material for you to peruse and enjoy as you once did my other works.  Keep an eye out for the new stuff. And thanks for sticking by me through this difficult time.

Thanks.

Nicole W Brown

Wonder Woman Just War by HG Willow Wilson ( Wfiter)

 

Grail convinces Ares that he was ready to leave the island and he says he's looking for his "Final Justice” The island of Thermyscia is being torn apart.  Trevor Steve’s unit disappeared and Etta tells Wonder Woman who immediately heads to the site where a soldier tells her she must have been one of those that came through the portal.

Wonder Woman meets up with Etta who tells her that what’s going on. Apparently, the US has an agreement with the Democratic country of Durovia that is been suppressing the indigenous people. Now a warlord has begun a war with the government. It is believed that he has Steve and his men. 

Wonder Woman finds out that Ares started this war. And that creatures from Paradise island have arrived through the portal and she finds out that the island may be gone. Worse, that Olympus May also be gone. Steve and his men manage to escape and find help with  Aphrodite.

Wonder Woman is trying to find a way to end this war and stop Ares. She also must find where Olympia has gone and Paradise island have gone.  This was a great comic with a fabulous storyline. I give this book a five out of five 

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Southern Bastards Vol 3: Homecoming by Jason Aaron (writer), Jason Latour (artist) Chris Brunner (artist). Jared Fletcher) Letterer)

In chapter 9 titled The Ma Who Never Got Away the sheriff of the ints of time, we could've made the right decision.   This chapter about the sheriff involves him thinking about all the times he could've been a man. if he made the one decision and he has missed all of those points in time we could've made the right decision.  Then it shows a flashback to when he was young and asking Coach for help with filling out scholarship forms. But the Coach had other plans in mind,

Chapter 19 the one titled Esau Going shows him fucking a woman  When the one who is fucking the woman on the first is done very well and the picture of the two of them looks lovely. But a  few minutes later when someone is coming to visit Esau he is still ducking her only this time it is as brutal and truly shows. The man who has arrived is a Bible thumper who wants to convert Easu.   Donny Ray, the Bible thumper gets roped into following around Easu on his illegal business for others and pisses everyone off.  Then he tries to get Danny Ray to do something against his religion.

Chapter 11 titled You're LOoking at Country which focuses on Deacon Boone who is religious but is also a man of the woods who hunts all the time. At his church, he is the best snake handler and is willing to pitch in with food.,  But when hears about a mentally handicapped girl who was raped y a real bastard, Deacon Boone decides to hunt a different animal for a change,

The last chapter titled Fourth and Goal is about the big game between Craw County and the school the next county over,  The Coach has made some big mistakes that will cause the game to be very much an uphill battle. This game is the be all end all for the county and they haven't lost in years.  This book is about winning this game by any means possible;  This book is just one more in the series that shows how damn fine it is

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Legionquest by a lot of people

 For those of you who are interested in reading a book about Legion aka David  Charles Haller then you will be disappointed because he does not appear until page 347 in a 555-page book. Legion’s first act upon being awoken from his coma is to kill Destiny who is under the protection of Mystique this brings Mystique to were Legion.is located.  Mystique is running for Legion and the X-Men are after her for a crime she committed.

This leads the X-Men to Legion and Charles’s biggest The X-Men found out about Legion and headed over there to help out the other X-Men that were already there.  The Shiar sends an ambassador to help them out by keeping track explains what the crystal does and how the different planets of the different universes will die too of Legion isn’t stopped.

Then four of the X-Men Psylocke storm Iceman and Bishop all went back in time about 40 years by accident with Legion who has a special reason for being there—to kill Magneto. Now the four have no memory of who they are or how they got there. The rest of the X-Men must do their best to try and find their teammates.

I won’t kid you the Legion section is out of this world. And while the rest of the book is filled with a best of of the. X-Men they’re the best because they’re from some of the best writers. At the end is a collection of pictures for a swimsuit issue and it’s out of this world. I hate that I missed it when it came out. I give this book a four out of five for tricking us readers into buying something that has material even I’ve read.

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America\s Greatest Warriors: Avengers Unleashed Vol 1: Kang War One by Mark Waid (Writer). Mike Del Mundo (Artist, Colorist), Marco D'Alfonso (Colorist), VC's Cory Petit (Letterer)

 I really don't know what to say about this comic.  Is it good is it bad? I don't know but it is written by one of my favorite authors Marc Waid and he has written Doctor Strange, Superman, Flash, Deadpool including the famous one where he gets married. So this has the potential to be good.  But the story doesn’t come together really well and the artwork is awful and amateurish. The only 

This contains an awful lot of people including Hercules, female Thor, male Thor, Wasp, Vision, Spider-Man, and Sam Wilson as Captain Our faithful heroes are fighting against the completely unheard of Kang and Scarlet Centurion. The two of them are after Vision for stealing Kang’s baby form. They get Vision’s head and crack it open only to find that the information about the baby’s location has been downloaded elsewhere.

The avengers are joined by Vision from the future who tells them that he knows the location of the baby. Meanwhile, Kang and Scarlet Centurion go back in time to kill the babies of all Avengers minus Hercules for whom his baby’s location is unknown.

How will the Avengers get out of this tangled mess? Kang is truly evil and they must decide if wiping him out is worth it. I really didn’t much care for this book. I was disappointed in Waid. And the art is to be seen in order to appreciate how godawful it is. I give this book one star out of five.

Spider-Man/Deaepool Vol 3: Itsy Bitsy by Joe Kelly (Writer), Ed McGuiness (Penciller), Mark Morales (Inker), Livesay (Inker), John Dell (Inker), Walden Wong (Inker), Jason Keith (Colorist), Matt Yackey (Colorist), VC's Joe Sabino (Letterer)

 Spider-Man and Deadpool are going up against a band of animal criminals when suddenly they are interrupted by a super spider they name Itsy Bitsy whom they fight and cannot bring down, so Deadpool turns his hidey hoe into a bomb and uses a magic mirror to take him and Spider-Man to an alternate universe where Spider-Man can heal over time.  

While there in the alternate universe there's a giant hairy beast coming down on the little trolls who need their help. So, Deadpool drives the dragon while Spider-Man creates the bombs to drop on the beast. In the corner of the page as they set out is a square with the words "Flight of the Valkyries" as sung by a yak choking on a non=autotuned Soulja boy. And you know I can hear it as clear as day;  

Then they decide to go back to the big city and they find bodies wrapped up in silk on a web.  Itsy believes in killing bad guys--or whom she considers bad guys She tried to get Deadpool and Spider-Man to work with her but they wouldn't. Now it's time to catch her and to Spider-Man that's at any cost for she is killing in his name.  

This is when Nightcrawler shows up and tries to talk some sense into Spider-Man but he isn't having none of that. And Deadpool has to go to Hell to visit his wife who has someone to show him--the person behind this whole thing and you'll never guess who; He's told that someone wants to get even with Spider-Man by taking his soul and so far it's working;  Spider-Man is changing and becoming willing to kill.  But that's not going to happen on Deadpool's watch.  Spidey got him to stop killing and be a better person so he kinda owes him everything and won't stop until he finds a way out for Spider-Man,

This book is chock full of laughs and jokes--I mean with both Spider-Man and Deadpool it's inevitable!  But this one is funnier than the other two teamups I've read.  And the story is unique and creative especially when Deadpool is telling it,  The art is out of this world and amazing to look at.  This was an incredible book and I give it five out of five stars;

Quotes

It’s an election year. Someone will say something much stupider tomorrow.

=Spider-Man (Spider-Man/Deadpool “Itsy Bitsy”)

 

A day that starts with ice cream and this view is guaranteed to erase the night before.

-Spider-Man (Spider-Man/Deadpool “Itsty Bitsty”)

 

The absurdity of the world is starting to make sense to me.

-Spider-Man (Spider-Man/Deadpool “Itsy Bitsy”)

 

He has Picasso powers of self-Cubism.

-Deadpool (Spider-Man/Deadpool “Itsy Bitsy”)

 

  

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