Lucas Blogs About Books

It's that not hard being green. So, you actually stopped playing Hades  long enough to write a blog post, eh? Yes, Hypothetical Reader, I was able to exert a modicum of self-control and sit down to write about this lousy book. Poisoning the well, aren't we? Maybe a bit, but we've got another inductee into the " books-that-I-didn't-finish " club. I struggled mightily to complete this book and gave up two-thirds of the way through. Dude! You were in the home stretch! I know, but each time I put the book down it got harder and harder to find the motivation to pick it back up. According to my book-mark, I even stopped in the middle of a chapter. Anyway, I just realized that I haven't even mentioned the title or author yet. You're slipping. Sure you wouldn't rather talk about Hades ? Well, that's certainly done a better job of holding my attention of late, but no. I'll blog about Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer. So, what's its deal? Well, it...

At least the cover is badass! So, what's this book's deal? Well, it's a comic book written by Christopher Cantwell ( a writer and filmmaker  who has the misfortune of sharing a name with  a racist shithead ) and drawn by Salvador Larroca, with coloring by Guru-eFX. It's about Victor Von Doom, the arch-nemesis of the Fantastic Four. If you aren't familiar with him, he's basically an evil version of Iron Man crossed with Doctor Strange who's also the dictator of the fictional Slavic state of Latveria. So . . . a grounded, relatable protagonist for a change. Well, it's not for a lack of trying on Cantwell's part. In Doctor Doom, Volume 1: Pottersville , Doom is isolated (as usual) in Latveria, stewing over the positive media attention garnered by Reed Richards and Tony Stark's latest cooperative scientific endeavor: a green energy project that involves creating an artificial black hole on the moon. Wait—what? Don't worry, i...