Jaz Moore

Read some more Stephen King. The Regulators was pretty sweet. It had really good commentary on suburbanization being the death of an individual. Plus there's killer Vans. I also reread Cell and loved it even more the 2nd time. I love apocalyptic stories. Read both of these if you like intelligent and horrific tales.

The Sandman Chronicles: Neil Gaiman and company wrote these epic tales in the early 90's revolving around the dream god Morpheus. I'm enjoying it immensley, especially the references to other works and characters ( Constantine, Arkham Asylam.)

In the Small: A blue flash shrinks every human in the world. Society collapses and people's true colors are revealed. "We're at the bottom of the food chain now." The story is dark and quite gory which always wins my approval. Think of it as a rated R version of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids."

Reading "frankenstein" right now. I got it at a garage sale for 10 cents which automatically makes it awesome. So far I'm about 60 pages in and I'm enjoying it. The language is so refined. I forgot how much for poetic and articulate people spoke in the past. It's getting my brain working all right!

What if a disease known as African Rabies started infecting every human on the planet? What if it was actually a disease that turned anyone into a flesh eating zombie but the world was too ignorant and stupid to notice? How would society react? How would the government react? And most importantly: Who would survive?

Crazy ass shit. But so brilliant. Author Max Brooks did his research. Every chapter is well thought out and the conflict is  analyzed from every angle. I think my personal favorites so far are the chapters from the mentally disabled child's perspective, the teenage girl from Wisconsin, and the housewife who tore off a Zombie's head!

 I'm Reading what is considered the greatest graphic novel of all time. Yes you guessed it "WATCHMEN."Story takes place in an alternate 1985 America where super-heroes have passed their golden age and nuclear war with Russia is imminent. To be honest the story has opened my eyes to just how scary the cold war was. I had no idea, hell I wasn't even alive yet. I think the point that really struck me is something a character said. It was something along the lines of " Nuclear war isn't like other wars. You can't escape it." Shivers ran down my spine.  Brrrrr. 

 I also very much like the fact that our "Heroes" are messed up people. They aren't perfect infallible beings. Most are actually attention craving losers. The kind of people in society who would actually dare to don a mask. I think I will hold off on finishing the the graphic novel until after I see the movie. I like to be surprised!

 i was poking around my parents basement when I came across two awesome things. One was an annoyingly ugly siamese cat painting (which I took back to my house and immediately hung up) and the other was an old book based on the folk tale of Reynard the fox. This excited me big time! The book is a first edition from 1946 and seems to be in excellent condition, Hell there's even illustration in it. It tells the story of the scoundrel Reynard the fox who basically conned every other animal on the planet because he's a huuuuuge douchebag. I really love it so far and would like to keep it and read to my kids someday in the FAR FAR future.

I bought this book "23 Minutes in Hell" thinking it was gonna rock. The back of the book said that the premise was that this guy had died for 23 minutes and ended up experiencing what hell was like. I eagerly read it and boy can I tell you it sucked. The author is this righteous christian that said he was sent to hell to warn all of us against the evils of the world. Now I know what you're thinking, I cannot judge a book merely on topic it must have literary credit? Well it was written like a shitty 9th grade persuasive essay. This guy was so insecure about the legitimacy of his argument that he sprinkled every other sentence with unnecessary bible quotations. L-A-M-E and unintelligent.

I really really like the concept of the Marvel series FABLES. Basically it's about famous fairy tale creatures and how they have to adjust living in a modern non-magical world. They have their own secret  "community" in our world because some evil tyrant conquered theirs. Mind you this isn't the Disney stories, there's A LOT of sex, nudity, adultery, murder, gore, war etc. The writers do a phenomenal job connecting all the stories and characters! It's really fun!

I sorta went on a Neil Gaiman kick and I read two of his works. Here's what I thought:

Coraline (which comes in graphic and reg. novel form) There's something in the way that Neil Gaiman writes that just catches my attention. He has the ability to eloquently describe the details one wants to read about minus the fluff that we don't.  So Coraline has a basic premise. A young girl moves into a new house and while bored discovers a gateway into a new world. Much like Alice through the looking glass, this world is a darker replica of the one the main character is from. People are distorted and presented in the fashion that reveal their "true" selves. Also on a creepy note everyone has giant black buttons for eyes. This book is good for a short quick read. It's only about 150 pages. 

The Grave Yard Book- Again Neil Gaiman chooses a classic tale (the jungle book) and makes it darker and much richer. A toddler's family is horribly slaughtered by a mysterious man named Jack.  The babe  happens to wander into a graveyard before the killer can catch him and is taken in and raised by the ghosts as one of their own. A nice vivd read. Although I thought that the climax happened so suddenly that it almost seemed anti-climactic. However, I did enjoy  Silas , the witch ghost Liza, and the lively (Bad Pun) Ghouls.

These are some comics/Graphic Novels  that I have recently read!

SINCITY: To Hell and Back - A story about an ex-marine present day artist, who finally finds the love of his life in a woman named Esther. The thing is, she has been kidnapped by a human trading ring organization. Of coarse as is all of Frank Miller's work the story has a bit of the damsel in distress vibe.  If you're willing to look past that, the art is breath-takingly beautiful and the dialogue magnificently noir-esque!

The Walking Dead Volume 1- A police officer gets shot, falls into a coma, and wakes up a month later to total zombie dominance. This was a fair read. The problem I had with it was that the female characters were  non-aggressive helpless little creatures. To my knowledge not one woman killed a zombie in the entire story. I don't know about you. but I sure as hell could kill a damn zombie by myself if I wanted to! Scream, Collect my wits, Grab crowbar, Bash zombie in head repeatedly, Perform complicated victory dance involving cheesy eighties moves. 

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