Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead has always been a study in the sociology of collapse; Volume 5, The Best Defense, continues that project with an increasingly clear political and moral lens. This collection deepens the series’ central question: when structures fail, what patterns of life and meaning persist, and who gets to decide the rules for a new … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead has always presented itself as a paradox: a story ostensibly about the undead that is at heart preoccupied with the living. The Heart’s Desire, the fourth trade in the series, sharpens that paradox into a sustained meditation on the limits and liabilities of desire — not only the erotic or the acquisitive, but … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
Volume 3 of The Walking Dead marks a tonal pivot in Kirkman’s ongoing meditation on catastrophe: the terror of the undead remains the engine, but the narrative energy increasingly diverts into the human architectures we build to live with that terror. Where earlier volumes foregrounded immediate survival and the shock of societal collapse, Safety Behind Bars examines the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
If the first volume of The Walking Dead announces Robert Kirkman’s premise—an America emptied of its certainties—Miles Behind Us is where that premise begins to breed complications. The second collected volume refracts the initial trauma of survival into a series of quieter, nastier moral tests: not just how to stay alive, but what kind of people the survivors … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead (Vol.1): Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye arrives, at first glance, as another entry in the long lineage of zombie fiction; on closer reading it announces itself instead as a careful excavation of what a catastrophe reveals about ordinary human life. Collected from the series’ opening six issues, the volume functions as a primer — not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead (Vol.1): Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Creepshow by Stephen King
Stephen King’s Creepshow (1982), in its graphic-novella form with Bernie Wrightson’s evocative illustrations, occupies a fascinating space at the intersection of pulp horror cinema and comic‑book tradition. Though conceived to accompany George A. Romero’s film of the same name, Creepshow stands on its own as a self‑consciously nostalgic pastiche—a loving pastiche—of EC Comics of the 1950s, filtered through King’s … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Creepshow by Stephen King
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Picasso Drawings 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition by Susan Grace Galassi and Marilyn McCully
Drawing deeply from the currents of academic rigour and the sensibility of an art historian steeped in modernism, Picasso Drawings 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition by Susan Grace Galassi and Marilyn McCully emerges not merely as a catalogue raisonné but as a scholarly paradigm shift in our understanding of Picasso’s formative years. This review will examine the book’s structure, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Picasso Drawings 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition by Susan Grace Galassi and Marilyn McCully
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work by M.C. Escher
Mathematical Imagination and the Art of the Impossible Few artists command a space so firmly between the rational and the surreal as Maurits Cornelis Escher. M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work is both a testament to his singular vision and an invitation into a world where reality folds upon itself in recursive patterns, and logic succumbs to paradox. … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work by M.C. Escher
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Rembrandt Landscape Drawings: 60 Works by Dover Publications
Rembrandt van Rijn’s artistic mastery is widely celebrated, and Rembrandt Landscape Drawings: 60 Works by Dover Publications offers a captivating glimpse into one of the lesser-explored facets of his genius—his landscapes. This curated collection is both an ode to the spontaneity of his sketches and an invitation to journey through the Dutch countryside as it existed in … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Rembrandt Landscape Drawings: 60 Works by Dover Publications
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Picasso Line Drawings and Prints: 44 Illustrations
In Picasso Line Drawings and Prints: 44 Illustrations, Dover Publications presents a striking collection that serves as both a study in the simplicity of genius and an exploration of the profound communicative power of line. This concise yet evocative volume offers readers a glimpse into Pablo Picasso’s enduring legacy, showcasing a selection of drawings and prints … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Picasso Line Drawings and Prints: 44 Illustrations
The New Renaissance Mindset 