Check This Out: Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts

So I just read "Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts" and...I gotta be honest...I thought it was...ok.

The Plot: Hungry Ghosts is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, ANTHONY BOURDAIN (Kitchen Confidential, Emmy-Award winning TV star of Parts Unknown) and acclaimed novelist JOEL ROSE (Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster) back again from their New York Times #1 best seller, Get Jiro!.

Featuring all-new original recipes prepared by BOURDAIN, plus a yellow ribbon bookmark , and a guide to the ghostly legendary spirits behind these horrifying tales. This horror anthology is sure to please--and scare!

On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge.

Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake, all tainted with the common thread of food.

Including stellar artists SEBASTIAN CABROL, VANESA DEL REY, FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA, IRENE KOH, LEO MANCO, ALBERTO PONTICELLI, PAUL POPE, and MATEUS SANTOLOUCO, as well as amazing color by JOSE VILLARRUBIA, and a drop-dead cover by PAUL POPE.

The Takeaway: This mini-series, to me, seemed to have a lot of potential. Who WOULDN'T love a collection of ghostly tales based on legendary spirits intertwined in a game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, or 100 Candles, featuring a circle of chefs gathered to outscare each other?! It sounded REALLY cool--and spooky, too! But, for myself, I found it to just be more vulgar and grotesque than much of anything else. I mean, the concept is there. The stories are there. The artwork is DEFINITELY there... I guess I was just hoping for a bit more on the execution. All in all, this was still a VERY cool read. If you come into it for the lore and get past the disgust, I think this is a great collection of old tales with a semi-modern twist.

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Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts

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Check This Out: We3

Just read "We3" and man...WOW! This was an emotional one for me. I had no idea when I picked it up. And yes, I cried.

The Plot: Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely deliver the emotional journey of WE3 - three house pets weaponized for lethal combat by the government - as they search for "home" and ward off the shadowy agency that created them.

With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 (WE3) have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program's prototypes, and now that their testing is complete, they're slated to be permanently "decommissioned," causing them to seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom. Relentlessly pursued by their makers, the WE3 team must navigate a frightening and confusing world where their instincts and heightened abilities make them as much a threat as those hunting them - but a world, nonetheless, in which somewhere there is something called "home."

The Takeaway: We3 is a beautifully written story about three weaponized stolen pets. The covers to each of the comics in this short series really hit hard - seeing each pet in their home, their family obviously trying to find them... Man...my pets are my life. If you love animals, and you think you can take it, definitely check this one out - then go hug your pet.

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WE3

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