This Week on YAMB

This week over on Yet Another Music Blog:

Not much, as I was busy doing the Free Graphic Novel week here, but I did briefly discuss the soundtrack to Songcatcher, and put together a new program on Yet Another Music Radio: Cover Songs 1, featuring over three hours of 50 different covers songs.

FGNW Day 6: Mortal Souls & Go Boy 7

It's Day 6 of our Free Graphic Novel Week, the penultimate day of our celebration of one year of Yet Another Comics Blog!

Today's first selection is Steven Grant & Phil Xavier's Mortal Souls, a sex & violence filled zombie-noir published by Avatar Press:

From Steven Grant, the man who taught Marvel how to do The Punisher, comes a bloody, bitter mix of crime and horror. Pursuing an unpredictable killer, police detective Eric Sharpe watches his life turn into a waking nightmare when his investigations reveal more than he ever feared--and more than he ever wanted to see.

The second selection is Go Boy 7: Ready Set Go! by Tom Peyer, Jon Sommariva & Kris Justice, published by Dark Horse:

A mysterious plane crash claims the life of Jonny Zero's parents and leaves him critically injured. Enter Professor Zero, Jonny's uncle, who uses his experimental robotic nonplasm to rebuild the boy. Jonny is transformed into Go Boy 7, the human action machine! This collection of the first four issues of the series feature flash-fire action and high sci-fi drama.

To enter for a chance to win one of these graphic novels, simply do the following:

Send me an email with your name, your postal address, which graphic novel you want, and a sentence or two telling me why you want it. Please put 'FGNW' and the title of the graphic novel you want in the subject of your email.

You can enter once per day (but only once)--that means that you have to choose which of the two graphic novels you want. Also, you can only win once, so if you are picked you can't enter any more. But you can keep entering each day until you win. (You must be 18 or older and live in the United States.)

Entries must be received by 11:59 pm EDT, and the winners will be announced tomorrow morning. Then I'll announce the final two graphic novels for the very last day of FGNW.

(Full details, including the fine print, are available here.)

FGNW Day 5: Winner

The winner for Free Graphic Novel Week Day Five is Kurt Addams, who writes:

I’m putting in a request for Buster's Neighborhood: Kid Comet vs. The Agents of Doom for my soon to be 8-year-old-son CJ because it sounds just like the kind of thing he’d love to read. (Of course I’ll read it too.) Probably a quarter of our conversations start off with, “Wouldn't it be cool if…” and then he launches into a wild tale of spies and superheroes and bad guys.

Kurt, I hope that both you and CJ enjoy this graphic novel!


I had three entries for Buster's Neighborhood, but amazingly no one asked after The Devil Does Exist, making this two days in a row that one of the free graphic novels couldn't attract a single person. Will anybody care about either of the next two selections? I guess we'll find out when I post them later this morning...


Update: TangognaT writes in to say:

If you're still sending away The Devil Does Exist, I'd like to read it. I was going to write in before because I was interested in reading it, but I thought since I have so much manga anyway it would be better for it to be given away to someone else.

So if it is still around and you want to send it along, that would be nifty. But if someone else wants it, that's fine. No worries either way!

It would seem that no one else wants it, so I'll be sending it off to her to her to enjoy.