By Heresies Distressed review

The Safehold series by David Weber just keeps getting better and better.  By Heresies Distressed is the third book and I can't wait to get my teeth into the fourth, despite the fact that I'm now over 1500 pages into the saga.  This instalment had lots of rather tense action (which I'm sometimes not keen on, since it has a tendency to make me skim rather than reading the text properly) and also managed to suprise me several times with unexpected plot twists.

As with the earlier books, the best and worst thing about the books is that the characters on all sides of the conflict are well-rounded, with sensible motivations.  This is excellent, as it presents the characters as entirely believable, but it makes for quite anxious reading, as I really liked a lot of the supposed "bad guys" and didn't necessarily want them to be defeated, even though I love the heroes too.

 

The Losers comic review

I enjoyed The Losers film so much, I went right out and bought the first volume of the comics on which it was based - and they are *even better*.

Great writing, great art, clever, laugh-out-loud funny (which is saying something, coming from me) and just downright *cool*.  The plot was tweaked a bit for the film (as these things always are), which makes reading the comics all the more interesting - they are also a lot more violent and contain a lot more swearing than the film, but that doesn't tend to bother me in print.  Interestingly, my favourite character in the comic is Cougar, the practically monosyllabic sniper (he says a total of 14 words in 146 pages), whereas my favourite character in the film was the very talkative Jensen.

Roll on August, when the other three collections are re-released in one handy volume.