I RETURN LIKE A HOT BLACK WIND, THE CRACKING OF A FRESH DIET COKE YOUR ONLY WARNING. Listen: I started my new job this month, and I like it but it’s A Lot and at the end of the workday your Bageler desires only to be wrapped in the trumpety embrace of a gentle jazz…
Category: Readin’ Comics Weekly Roundups
Reading Roundup 10.22.23, Or, Pillow Fight Club
First, A BRIEF FERAL CAT UPDATE (FCU): they’re fine! Bleu and Pannacotta and Brûlée and the Sheriff and Starzin & Yipes (the Stripes Twins) are all great, but it got much colder very quickly here and is projected to continue doing so, and I was worried about them because mostly they are but SWEET SUMMER…
Reading Roundup Week Of 10.15.23, Or, Visibly Skeevy Vizier
Yes hello I have decided to betray my brand and start including prose books, or “mind-comics”, in my reading roundu–HOLY SHIT I SHOULD CALL THESE ‘READING ROUNDUPS’, THIS EXPERIMENT IS ALREADY YIELDING FRUIT BEYOND MY WILDEST HOPES. I haven’t been reading many comics lately, partly because all things are cycles and the Book Moon waxeth…
Readin’ Comics Week Of 10.1.23, Or, Passing The Bechamel Test
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir I am a huge fan of the graphic memoir for a number of reasons; maybe it’s the way that the author is often the artist (or at least works closely with them) and can better let us see what they tell us, maybe it’s just that I’m…
Readin’ Comics Week Of 6.11.23, Or, Y=MX+(Shut Up)
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) I’ve actually been taking a wee break from comics to focus on finishing Oathbringer, and…
Readin’ Comics Week Of 5.7.23: Axe And Ye Shall Receive, Or, Moriarty’s Revenge
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) Y’know, maybe if I wrote my intros when I start the article, instead of when…
Readin’ Comics Week Of 4.30.23: The Dynamite Side Of The Street
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) Okay, I just finished Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 for the first time since…