Book Review: “52″ (Volume 1)

Volume 1 of “52″ takes the first few issues of the weekly post-Crisis comic event and explores what takes place in the D.C. Universe immediately following Infinite Crisis.
Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have all taken a one-year break from their crime-fighting career. How does the D.C. Universe handle the absence of their three great superheroes?
Well, [...]

Book Review: FOC: Freedom Of Choice

“FOC: Freedom Of Choice” is a collection of stories of real-life people people breaking free from sexual bondage. There are stories of homosexual persons who left behind a life of cruising and sexual encounters with strangers to get married and have a family; there are stories of how persons with same-sex attraction realized and grew [...]

Book Review: Villains United

“Villains United” is one of four mini-series leading into Infinite Crisis, a wide-scale event in the D.C. Universe that shook the world and split it into 52 other worlds.
“Villains United” focuses on the supervillains response to the Justice League of America performing the unethical act of mindwiping a group of supervillains after they learnt their [...]

Book Review: More Church Humour

I once asked a friend of mine who is into apologetics: “If Jesus came back today as a man, what religion would he be?” My friend, ever faithful to Mother Church, replied, “Why, a Catholic, of course!” I should tell him this anecdote:

A Methodist, a Presbyterian, a Baptist, and a Catholic were discussing the question [...]

Book Review: Church Humour

A Dominican, a Franciscan, and a Jesuit were meeting in a room. In the middle of their discussion, the lights went out. Undeterred by the darkness, the Dominican stood up and said, “Let us consider the nature of light and of darkness, and their meaning.”
The Franciscan began to sing a hymn in honour of “Our [...]

Book Review: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

I’ve just finished a most excellent book titled “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” written by Father John Harvey, OSFS, the priest who started Courage - the only Catholic ministry dedicated to persons with same-sex attraction that completely embraces the Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
I bought this book on the third session of “A Christian Response To [...]

Book Review - The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Getting Rich

I have a headache. I just finished reading a 360-page book titled “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Rich”. It’s not easy… to get rich, that is, but this book has been a good book in the sense that it gives a good overview of what it takes to build wealth.
The book starts by helping [...]

Book Review - The Last Hero

The third Terry Pratchett book I’ve read is “The Last Hero” which tells the tale of Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde, the last heroes in the world. Discworld’s definition of heroes describes those who steal treasures, save princesses and defeat Dark Lords - a concept that has been rendered out from the current [...]

Book Review - Understanding Comics

I’ve seen this book many times in the library, but never felt compelled to borrow it until one day in the Ang Mo Kio library, I found nothing else more interesting.
In short, “Understanding Comics” is a book about comics written in comic style. With the use of the various comic techniques, author Scott McCloud is [...]

Book Review - Infinite Crisis

Having heard so much about Infinite Crisis, I wanted to read it, but I first had to read Crisis on Infinite Earths. Having finished that last month, I was elated to find a copy of the collection of the mini-series Infinite Crisis at Bishan Community Library.
Infinite Crisis is a vast improvement, in terms of storyline, [...]