'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

But something about Baxter made people uneasy and therefore compliant. It had always been that way, but never more so than now. With his prison tats and those cold eyes, Baxter was the alpha dog in pretty much any room he entered.

That was when he’d fully understood that neither of them had every understood the other. A marriage couldn’t survive that sort of epiphany, and their had been over just a few weeks later.

The dead bolt made a heavy, satisfying thunk as he turned the lock, and Jake found that he liked that sound. He liked it very much.

Chaos is an ocean,” Alexandra Nueva said. “It ebbs and flows and sometimes it rises to destroy those who build their lives beside it. But if you’re clever and determined, you just might find a way to hold back the tide.

The Suffering are always here, no matter where else they may be.

Yo, zombie guys, pay attention. When it’s Simon says, that means you have to do what I say. Let’s be more direct. The Slayer says die, like, forever.

Good!” Ripley said, standing again. She was tall, imposing, and she liked the way a couple of the guys winced a little when she shouted. “That’s because I blew it out of the airlock.

There were things violence could solve – you couldn’t be a soldier and not believe that – but this wasn’t one of them.