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Mid-July 2018 books
Jul. 18th, 2018 07:36 pmI've been tracking down more old favorites...and sometimes finding out that the creator has written a new book or started a new series.
Matt Wagner has started the third iteration of Mage, subtitled The Hero Denied. It started a year ago and is up to issue 10 (just released today!!).
The first two series of Mage are The Hero Discovered and The Hero Defined. Matt Wagner is doing a Arthur Pendragon reincarnated series, although we're not sure about that immediately. It was a lovely, atmospheric series when it was released. In parts, it's wordy, but Wagner does well with facial expressions, body position so that words aren't always needed. In the third series, Kevin is still trying to find a mage who can teach him. Beyond that, he's become very powerful and skilled. Meanwhile, his enemies are gathering.
Terry Moore has started a new series based on his earlier Strangers in Paradise: Strangers in Paradise XXV. It's 4 or 5 issues in so far.
There's a new Russell/Holmes book by Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad. Russell's old friend from Oxford asks for her help in finding her mad aunt who's disappeared after a family visit with her caretaker. The action moves to Venice. I liked it better than the Pirates one, but not as well as some favorite entries.
Steven Saylor also has a new entry in his Gordianus the Finder series, The Throne of Caesar. Julius Caesar is getting ready to leave on campaign. Meanwhile a soothsayer has told him that he's in danger for the next 30 days, which will end on the Ides of March. The book opens about a week or so before the Ides. While Gordianus is old for a Roman, he did seem more maudlin and somewhat out of it in this book. I'd love to see a spin-off following Gordianus's children (all adults now).
Another Peabody/Emerson reread, Seeing a Large Cat. This book introduces Katherine Jones, a con-woman who caught up an old acquaintance of the clan in her medium act. The family has to help remove the mania of the acquaintance and try to catch a murderer (another year, another body).
