Abatido por el infortunio de un caminante, Adren, es alejado de su mundo por el mismo poder que alguna vez se vio perdido. En solitario viaja a través de los planos donde cada destino con lleva un peso en vida. La criatura que lo caza arrastra la malaria, muerte, el caos en su búsqueda saltando de plano en plano. Sus destino los une, es inevitable, ¿pero cuando?

Finally got my New York Comic Con limited edition patina Cthulhu. I may be getting a bit obsessed with Funko Pops. 

Trying to get all the comics cleared off my couch, bedside table, computer chair and yes, floor.  I swear, they aren't being ruined!

Punks Git Cut - I got two paper cuts from this 'zine collection.  One right on my knuckle, it bled for an hour.  Not only the paper in this witty collection was cutting.  For people who listen to the Awesome Snakes, Aquabats! or even the Mountain Goats.  What I enjoyed most: Poem written from the perspective of Imhotep in the movie The Mummy.

Jem and the Holograms Volume 1 Showtime - I thought I would just flip through this slightly massive first volume, but instead I got sucked in.  A story that could have been too saccharine was pretty good.  What I enjoyed most; While Jerrica & whatshisface got the first kiss, Kimber and Stormer's romance takes center stage and all the characters create a diverse group, especially pleased to see underrepresented body types.

The Oven - Syd and Eric want to have a kid, but it turns out to be much more complicated than they thought in this population controlled dystopian future.  I wish I knew a little more about the characters.  What I liked most: the author describing speculative fiction as a tool to give herself a 'laser-like ability' to focus on particular topics, such as gender, or the environment.  I will definitely look for more of her work.

See You Next Tuesday - Somewhat reminiscent of the television series "Broad City."  It seems like the kind of book/humor people either love or hate.  The comic is single illustrations, shorter and longer pieces and notes, most of them self-deprecating, many including poop and fart jokes.  Despite saying people would either love or hate it, I liked it.

Frankenstein Underground - Truthfully, I was just glad not to be reading about Abe Sappy-ian for a change.  Frankenstein's Monster has been wandering the Earth, from Germany to France and finally finds himself underground, in a mythical city buried for years and re-discovered by members of the Heliotrope Society, but things have gone horribly wrong...What I liked most: I just love the illustrations, although I enjoyed the story I may have enjoyed the additional sketches included at the end of the comic the most.

Sherlock Holmes and the Necronomicon - Way to make the mythos and Holmes boring.  This was just mind numbing, how I wished Moriarty had even one witty line in here, but the writing was as dry as chalk dust from a euclidean scholar's blackboard.  Dull.

When Abdul Alhazred gets his lover, the daughter of the king, pregnant, he's forced to eat the roasted fetus, along with his own genitals. Mutilated and near death, he is left to die in the Empty Space, the great desert. But that is only the beginning of his journey to becoming the greatest necromancer in existence...

After reading Tales of Alhazred, I jumped at the chance to read this. Much like the time I drank a twelve pack of Angry Orchard, it was too much of a good thing.

Since I read Tales of Alhazred first, this book had a lot to live up to. Sure enough, it chronicled his meetings with Martala and Altrus, as well as his mutilation. Things hinted at in the collection of short stories were given life, like Alhazred's time with the ghouls.

Overall, I enjoyed this book. How could I not with its mixture of swords & sorcery and the Cthulhu mythos? Alhazred learns from a wide variety of teachers and gets into a wide variety of adventures. So why did I only give it a three?

It was too damn long! This could have easily been two or even three books. I feel like Cthulhu rose from his eternal slumber and went back to sleep in the time I was reading it. There were a lot of times I yearned for something major to happen. It probably would have worked best as a collection or two of short stories rather than the never-ending tale of wandering around the Middle East.

Three stars. I didn't like it as much as Tales of Alhazred but I'll read more of Alhazred's adventures at some point.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle meets H. P. Lovecraft! Yeah, that line taken from the blurb quite summarize this graphic novel pretty good. Sherlock Holmes is on an Arctic expedition after everything that happened in the last volume with the vampire Selymes (A volume that I sadly haven't read). But something is calling him back to London, can it be that an old foe is back...from the dead? And what has the Necronomicon to do with it?

I do have a deep love for everything paranormal, and reading a Sherlock Holmes story with paranormal aspects like the Necronomicon was marvelous. And the art is superb. Just look at the details of London. This is the kind of art I want to enjoy when I read anything that has to do with the Victorian era. Although I had one problem...

I took my forever to get used to how Sherlock Holmes was drawn. I mean he is drawn just fine, that is just not how I picture him....

I just think that I'm a bit influenced by the original drawings of Sherlock Holmes. But after a while I started to warm up to his looks. I mean, he is a fictional character, everyone picture him differently. I sure as hell picture him more like Jeremy Brett than Benedict Cumberbatch. But that doesn't mean that the Cumberbatch series isn't any good (Love that series)...

So, I liked this volume. The story was good, not fantastical good, but I enjoyed reading it. I do admit that the art pushed up the rating to 4 stars. I mean the story was good, but I wasn't totally engrossed with it. But I liked that Dr. Watson wasn't in it. He sometimes has a tendency to ruin the enjoyment for me, depending on how stupid the author makes him...or the scriptwriter. I think the best part of the book was towards the end when everything started to come together and Sherlock Holmes had to do anything to stop his enemy from winning. And look at that art...beautiful!

I do felt that reading it on my Ipad took way some of the enjoyment because it shrunk everything so everything was a bit small, especially the text. But that is a minor problem.

Thanks to Dark Horse Books and Edelweiss for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!