In E. Catherine Tobler’s The Kraken Sea, an orphan named Jackson learns to embrace his inner monster when he’s adopted into a strange new family. In 1890s San Francisco, Jackson finds a world brimming with magic and mythology, plus a strange romance and a supernatural turf war. This tightly paced novel carries hints of American Gods, […]
It’s finally here. Avengers: Age of Ultron opens today, revisiting by-now familiar heroes and bringing more comic book characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe—Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Vision and (obviously) Ultron. Though the movies have been embraced by fans, they don’t always match up perfectly with how things are happened on the page. Before we all rush out to […]
