Barry Reese
Creator of Action & Adventure fiction
Tag: Reviews
Zot!
I’ve always been interested in Scott McCloud’s Zot! having seen artwork during its heyday but I was never able to actually track down an issue. Recently I bought two volumes – one collecting the first ten color issues and another reprinting the black and…
The Halfway Point – or, the land of Meh.
The Liberty Guard novel is meant to be around 60k in length and I’m currently closing in on 32,000 words. That means I’m over halfway home… but this is also the point in every novel where I begin to loathe the project, I’m anxious…
Gravedigger 3 gets reviewed!
Pulp Super-Fan Michael Brown is back with a review of The Adventures of Gravedigger Volume 3. He gave the book 5 stars and said the following: Finally Barry Reese gives us the third and final volume of his latest New Pulp hero(ine): Gravedigger. For…
New Pulp Recommendations: Brother Bones – City of Lost Souls
One of my favorite New Pulp characters is Brother Bones, the Undead Avenger created by Ron Fortier. Bones patrols the shadowy streets of Cape Noire and is an excellent melding of The Shadow with Marvel Comics’ Ghost Rider… he’s a fedora-wearing, skull-faced dispenser of…
Nightveil: The Quiet Girls gets a new review
Bobby Nash, noted writer of both comics and novels, has been gracious enough to leave a review of my Nightveil novel over on amazon. He gave the book 4 stars and titled his review “Another thrilling review of Nightveil.” Here’s the rest of his…
A New 5-Star Review!
Jose Rivera posted a new review of The Adventures of Gravedigger Volume 3 over at amazon.com. He gave it 5 stars and titled his review “A Fitting Finale!” Here’s what he had to say: We’ve come to the end of Barry Reese’s Gravedigger trilogy….
Norgil the Magician
Walter Gibson is rightly associated with The Shadow, having written 282 novels featuring the character. But he also wrote 23 stories featuring the lesser-known “Norgil the Magician,” drawing upon his real-life knowledge of magic. Norgil debuted in the November 1937 issue of Crime Busters…
