I didn’t think video games could shock me anymore. I also thought I had a good sense of just how lurid Rockstar Games’ upcoming detective thriller was going to be. Watching the game get played in a movie theater last night proved me wrong on both counts.
Karl Stevens’ book The Lodger is so carefully and convincingly drawn from life that it’s tempting to assume the whole thing is fiction. Available from Stevens’ site and a few smart stores, it’s built around a year’s worth of the weekly comic strip Stevens draws for the Boston Phoenix, “Failure.” (The strip’s title is both [...]
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