WHAT ARE YOU READING?

[ohtani's jacket]

Today, I read the excellent Murena. Set in Ancient Rome, it tells the story of the rise of the Emperor Nero. This was a captivating read with gorgeous artwork and political intrigue. I'm not sure how historically accurate it is, but there was a list of sources given at the end. It's been a while since Shanower released a new installment of Age of Bronze, and this scratched a very big itch for me that Age of Bronze left. 

[Teflon Turtle]

On 5/11/2026 at 12:45 PM, Teflon Turtle said:

I always avoided Iggy's solo stuff for the most part, besides what appeared on a Iggy career retrospective collection CD set I checked out from my area public library and burned back when that was a thing...that song was left off the collection, by the way.

So usually I would cringe at quoting myself, but I ought to own up to something. I went through my folders of old MP3s and found that Iggy's "Look Away" was on the anthology I have. I either memory-holed it because it's gross, or I just never noticed because the few times I listened to the solo stuff, nothing was interesting to me besides "Some Weird Sin" and "The Passenger."

Anyway, lest I be accused of straying too far off-topic:

Fever House and The Devil By Name by Keith Rosson: I finished Fever House a little while ago, The Devil By Name is still in progress. This is a two book series, a punk-rock horror noir-ish zombie story. 1st book is slightly-pre-apocalypse, 2nd book...well...use your imagination based on how I described the overall story. "Feces meets fan at some point" is hardly a spoiler. I found the first book to be quite propulsive, though there are of course trope-y elements that most zombie stories can't ever get away from. I had played the video game Control just before reading this. That game (if you're unfamiliar) hinges on a secret government agency that tracks, seizes, and stores paranormal (I think in the game they're referred to as "paranatural") items or artifacts that behave in supernatural ways, can bend physics or reality itself, and so on. Fever House features a very similar gov't agency with a very similar mission, so it was a pretty smooth transition from one to the next. So far, the second book has less of that, so it hasn't been as easy to pick up and keep reading. Still good, though. I'd say book two is also a little more brutal already, and I'm not even halfway through. Maybe more to come once I'm done.

Edited May 14 by Teflon Turtle

[AxB]

What I'm reading (spoilered for size): 

Spoiler

It's very strange. It's an unreliable narrator living with schizophrenia, who meets a Mermaid (possibly a Siren or Selkie) in June. And then also meets her for the first time again in November, only she's a Werewolf now. It's really good.

It was released in 2013 but somehow feels older. One of those illustrations of the recent past, that makes the recent past seem more distant than it is.

[odessasteps]

I remember when she used to write vertigo comics,