The Man who Never was

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t know how much justice I can do for this mammoth of a tale, but here goes. A Storm of Swords kicks off following the events of the previous book, and many of the characters are where they left them. The pretender king Joffrey 'Baratheon' sits on the throne, supported by the Lannisters and now the Tyrrells. Turion, having survived an Assassination and further disfigurement finds his star waning, as he is once again pushed down the ladder. Sansa Stark, still a hostage, tries to keep her head down and survive even as all sides try to use her as a valued piece. Robb Stark, having declared himself the king in the north, has been winning every battle against the Lannisters, in a war that is nonetheless in a stalemate. His position goes ever more precarious with the iron borne who have invaded the North, taken hold of Moat Cailin, razed winter fell and denied him access to the North. To the south, the Lanniste

A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner My rating: 4 of 5 stars Introduction: Denny O'Neil What he (Eisner) has given us are those memories, as tales, and realized in a fusion of image and copy. They are simple and they are harsh; there are no easy morals to be gotten from them. The good guys don’t win and the bad guys don’t lose, because there are no good guys and bad guys. Instead, there are lonely, frightened and ambitious people, immigrants seeking relief from poverty, despair and dread, that, unhappy as the present is, the future might be worse Considered one of the pioneer stalwarts in the Graphic novel field, Will Eisner’s most well known works would have to be the Spirit series he had penned during the 40s. But his most critically appreciated works have to be the ‘Comics and Sequential Art’ series as well as ‘A Contract with God’ published in 1978. In wanting to use comics/ graphic novels as a medium to tell series, more human stories, Eisner