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Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow - Review

Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
A free-verse novel about werewolves might not sound entirely appealing, but Toby Barlow’s debut is a clever, absorbing thriller about the gangs or, more accurately, packs on the prowl in LA. When top dog Lark’s pack rebels against him, unstable new allegiances start to form. A hapless human dogcatcher falls in [...]

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AMERICAN FLAGG! by Howard Chaykin - Review

American Flagg! Volume 1 by Howard Chaykin
“American Flagg!” was satire of a different kind: loud, sexed-up and hypersaturated with the impossible colors of its ’80s heyday. Nominally an adventure comic book about Reuben Flagg, a Russian-Jewish-Martian-American porn star-turned-”Plexus Ranger,” it was really an excuse for writer-artist Howard Chaykin to present his vision of total information [...]

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