Sam Costello: Writer, Editor, Web Consultant
I am a writer, editor, and web consultant who works with marketing companies, web development and IT agencies, magazines, websites, and other organizations. I help clients develop and refine messages, ideas, and businesses through precise, creative writing, accurate grammar, and cutting edge web consulting.
I am available for freelance projects in any of these areas, and also in writing or editing fiction, comics, and graphic novels.
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Archive for March, 2008
March 30, 2008 at 1:03 pm
· Filed in 52 Books/52 Weeks
The concluding volume of Manning’s small-town-strangeness series. A case of diminishing returns. The comedy bits feel like padding and the superheroish characters undermine the series’ tone, leaving the series feeling diffuse, scattered, and unsatisfying. The appealingly downbeat and daring ending visually echoes one of comics’ great sequences, the Tokyo apocalypse in Akira.
Book: 20/52
March 18, 2008 at 2:31 am
· Filed in 52 Books/52 Weeks
Fascinating and frustrating. Frustrating: he rarely talks about his music, and when he does, doesn’t always do so by name. Fascinating for its style (weird vocabulary married to interesting verb tenses) and trips through Dylan’s intelligence and worldview. One worry: Since Dylan is known for fabricating his past, what here is true?
Buy Chronicles Vol. 1 at Amazon
Book: 19/52
March 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm
· Filed in 52 Books/52 Weeks
by Tom Manning
This installment veers from quirky small-town life mixed with terror to include those things plus Bloom Country-style comic strips. Manning’s mastery of different styles of cartooning is impressive, but the addition is a bit off-putting - as is the team of Universal horror-era archetypes who almost smack of superheroes. Weird direction overall.
Book: 18/52
March 7, 2008 at 2:01 am
· Filed in 52 Books/52 Weeks
AKA “Elementary Particles,” which is a much better title. No idea why the UK got this foolish title. Surprisingly compelling book about dysfunctional sex, philosophy, depression, suicide, death, love. You know, the typical modern French novel. By the end, though, it goes somewhere fascinating and completely unexpected. A surprisingly tender, warm book.
Buy Elementary Particles at Amazon
Book: 17/52
March 6, 2008 at 2:01 am
· Filed in 52 Books/52 Weeks
OK, I’m done. I’m so sick of this series that I’m not even going to buy the last volume to find out how it ends. This volume was padded with pointless pages and introduced a whole new major character (in the second-to-last-installment!), and a ridiculous extrapolation on the fear theme. Just bad.
Buy Dragon Head Vo. 9 at Amazon
Book: 16/52
March 4, 2008 at 3:59 pm
· Filed in 52 Books/52 Weeks
A hardcover collection of the first nine issues of this “Private Eye in the Marvel Universe” series. Not quite as good as I’d hoped — Bendis’ trademark stilted, repetitive dialogue has lost its charm, it seems. The main character, ex-superhero Jessica Jones, didn’t exactly engender my sympathy, either. A good concept, blah execution.
Buy Alias at Amazon
Book: 15/52
