Books! More books! Somebody stop me! I keep buying books! I’ve picked up some fun ones too. Here’s what I’ve been looking at lately. Dwellings I was a really big fan Stephens’ comics back in the 90s. Atomic City Tales, Land of Nod, Jet Cat — I bought them all. And then he disappeared. For over a decade. So I was really excited when he made his turned to comics a few years ago with an all-new series, Dwellings, which has now finally been collected in hardcover. In his return to comics, Stephens has really refined his art style. It reminds me a lot of old Harvey comics — Casper, Hot Stuff, Wendy, etc. I assumed from looking at the art that the stories in Dwellings would contain some amount of levity. And perhaps a tongue-in-cheek “kid lit” approach to the writing — kinda like his old Jet Cat stuff or Land of Nod. Boy, was I wrong. Dwellings is a straight-up horror anthology. The tone is sophisticated, serious, and the characters talk as they would in a modern tv drama. These are “real” horror stories — the kinds of stories Stephen King writes. Grown up stories. But with an
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