Alpha Flight: The Complete Series by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente

 My accursed backlog of comics!!! I bought this half-double-dip trade before I realized how awful the series was....

Freedom of the Mask, by Robert McCammon

 Robert McCammon's Matthew Corbett series continues with the sixth installment, FREEDOM OF THE MASK.

Red Sonja: The Black Tower

 Dynamite keeps the Red Sonja train chugging along with RED SONJA: THE BLACK TOWER, a twisty, episodic collection that spans decades.

Alpha Flight by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, Vol. 1

 I've been reading comics for most of my 45 years, and I've taken a lot of crap for reading them. I've also gone out of my way to defend them as literature and as a valid art form. Reading ALPHA FLIGHT BY GREG PAK AND FRED VAN LENTE, VOL. 1 was enough to make me think "Why did I bother....?"

The Phantom of The Opera, by Philip J. Riley

 I grew up hearing endless stories from my grandfather about his childhood idol, Lon Chaney, or "The Man of 1,000 Faces" as gramps referred to him. It wasn't easy to find silent movies on broadcast TV in The Bronx back in the '70's, so I never had the pleasure of actually watching a Chaney film with my grandfather, but as I've grown older, mostly thanks to TCM, I've become quite a fan of the man and his films, especially THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.