A New Guilty Pleasure: The Dabel Brothers

The Dabel Brothers, under the banner of Marvel comics, have come out with several comic titles based on best-selling sci-fi and fantasy authors’ novels. Dabel Brothers Productions has been around since 2002, and their most recent line-up of novel adaptations started in the summer of 2006, but I didn’t discover them until I went to the con this weekend.

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Faerie Wars, now in Adult-o-Vision!

Originally released as a young-adult novel in February 2003, Faerie Wars, by Herbie Brennan, was re-released this month as an adult title.

Then: Faerie Wars Young Adult Book Cover And now: Faerie Wars 2007 Book Cover

Overall, Faerie Wars is easy reading. It’s firmly in the category of pure entertainment: the book has no literary pretensions beyond the fantasy genre. However, Brennan is a talented writer with a pleasing style and certainly understands how to engage his audience, easily convincing the reader from the beginning that this will not be a run-of-the-mill fantasy adventure.

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