Rose Petralia thinks Arthur Nersesian’s latest novel is a dirty New York bus ride over the edge of strange.

Unlike most yearbooks, Matthew Moyer finds that this minicomic collection of Chris Staros’ high school recollections is one that can be read again and again fondly.

Have you ever been listening to Pantera and thought to yourself, “I wish my demon seed could know more about the bands that they will soon worship as I do now?” If you have, then you’re a friggin’ lunatic. If you haven’t, then you’re just a little more sane. Either way, Tim Wardyn explains that this book is either the first step on your journey or just a kick ass good time.

Rose Petralia doesn’t care if you don’t dig Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, she thinks they’re dreamy.

Andrew Coulon figures that it might be best to keep your twelve-sided dice on hand, just in case, when reading through Alex Robinson’s freewheeling homage to Red Sonja and Dungeons & Dragons.

Andrew Coulon follows Jeff Lemire back to Essex County in this second volume of Lemire’s graphic novel series, and finds it a sad but very beautiful place to be.

Carl F Gauze finds that Dedra Johnson’s new book is not a children’s book, but a book about children in the worst possible world in America. He couldn’t put it down.

Matt Kindt’s new graphic novel recaptures the shadowy espionage of World War II. Carl F Gauze knows thirteen ways to kill you if you happen to glance at him talking into his shoe.

Recreational conotoxins, multi-dimensional manifolds and hard rawk – what the? Rudy Rucker must have a book out, and Ian Koss enjoys it.

Pat Graham brings the DC-centric goods in this new collection of over a decade’s worth of his music photos. Matthew Moyer feels like he has an all-access pass.

Photographer Abby Banks went on a 25-city tour of “punk houses” across the U.S. to create this unique coffeetable book that pays tribute to this artistic underground of “hippie punks.” Jen Cray is ready to crash.

Pitchfork writer Scott Plagenhoef has written an appreciation of B&S’s groundbreaking album as part of Continuum Books’ 33 1/3rd series. Andrew Coulon has a few bones to pick.

The definitive coffee table book on Godzilla and his creator, Eiji Tsuburaya. Carl F. Gauze is torn on whether to stifle a giggle at the rubber suits or flee in terror through the streets of Tokyo.

What is in a name? Well, Mortimer Taylor Coleridge, Professor Fillmore Skinny, and Bertrand Fuddle suggest oddly mannered eccentrics contrived to knee-jerk the reader into a fantastical parallel world where it’s all evolutionary biology, hot dogs and Gwen Stefani. S D Green explores whether or not it’s a world worth visiting.

Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.

Matthew Moyer swoons like Dale Arden over this latest volume of vintage Flash Gordon reprints from the fine people at Checker Books.

Portland, ho! Matthew Moyer finds the Zinester’s Guide to be a heartfelt, if somewhat flawed, love letter to stick in your jacket pocket the next time you visit “the city that works.”

James Michener’s first posthumous publication is revived after thirty years of sleeping with the fishes. Rose Petralia grinds it up for chum.

Matthew Moyer gets a crash course in hardcore history and a masterclass in interviewing bands from reading this collection of Norman Brannon’s Anti-Matter zine.

Carl F Gauze enjoys the short story Kate Schatz spins out of PJ Harvey’s monumental Rid Of Me album, the newest addition to the 33 1/3 line of books on classic albums.