Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey

“You learn the basics, you have a horrifying experience in a graveyard, they give you a trenchcoat and steal your razor. It’s like an assembly line, really.” ~Ambrose Bierce in “Stanley and His Monster” by Phil Foglio.

Mike Carey had a lot of leftover ideas from his run on Hellblazer, so he created Felix Castor and used them all. This is the third book in the series, but it covers everything you might have missed and stands pretty well on its own.

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Overall: Did you like Carey’s run on Hellblazer? If you did, you’ll like this. If you didn’t…well, this is more of that, just as prose and with the serial numbers filed off.

HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects, edited by John Joseph Adams

A collection of Kickstarter campaigns from a selection of realities that are thankfully not our own. See how funds were raised for time travel, robot bodies, mutated monsters, giant brains and more!

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Overall: If you’re looking for an ebook to keep on your phone and read five minutes at a time, this is a very good choice.