If you ask me — and, by reading this, you kinda are — director Zack Synder (300) put himself in a no-win situation when he took the can’t-miss approach to making WATCHMEN. In adapting the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel as closely as possible, he’d please its rabid fanbase, but...

During the Golden Age of comics, partners Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created a legendary superhero who’s just as strong and popular today: Captain America. And they also worked on Blue Bolt. Hey, they can’t all be winners. There’s a reason we don’t remember Blue Bolt today: He ...

Pit the Texas Ranger known as Walker against B.A. Baracus and who wins? Ian Spector, author of CHUCK NORRIS VS. MR. T: 400 FACTS ABOUT THE BADDEST DUDES IN THE HISTORY OF EVER — that’s who. It’s the sequel, of course, to the bestselling THE TRUTH ABOUT CHUCK NORRIS: 400 FACTS ABOUT THE...

It’s been a while since we’ve seen anything from the Berkeley, Calif.-based indie publisher memorably known as Omnibucket, but it’s back with THE BOOK OF CLAV. Each Omnibucket release is vastly different from the one before it, with the only common thread being a high-quality marri...

Donald E. Westlake rarely disappoints me. This is one of those times. Not to speak ill of the dead, but his newest Hard Case Crime release THE CUTIE — originally published in 1960 as THE MERCENARIES — simply failed to hook me, and Westlake is one who’s adept at hooking you from the very st...

Those guys on the other side of the Atlantic are just as twisted as we are, as evidenced by the 21 stories in BRITISH INVASION, a Cemetery Dance horror anthology edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon and James A. Moore, all of whom know the territory well. The title of INVASION suggests a new or ...

One need not be a fan of Asian cartoons — filmed or printed — to pick up SCHOOLGIRL MILKY CRISIS: ADVENTURES IN THE ANIME AND MANGA TRADE, but I think you’d be bored otherwise. For this eyebrow-raising-titled collection, journalist Jonathan Clements has rounded up nearly 20 years’ wo...

A sampling of some of the bizarro search terms with (thankfully) low numbers that brought people to BOOKGASM over the last 30ish days: • kathleen turner hurt penis • half human half horse • how do you stop people from sitting in your chair • fat fryer accident • “limp with excitement...

Kim Harrison has a new urban fantasy out — the seventh in the series starring kick-ass witch/bounty hunter Rachel Morgan — called WHITE WITCH, BLACK CURSE. And the winner of the novel, along with a T-shirt and a tomato seed packet (tomato seeds?!? — yeah, read the contest explanation) is Tim D...

Kim Harrison has a new urban fantasy out — the seventh in the series starring kick-ass witch/bounty hunter Rachel Morgan — called WHITE WITCH, BLACK CURSE. We have one copy to give away, along with a T-shirt and a tomato seed packet. Wait, wha–? That’s right: a tomato seed packet. Se...