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Key: -(R) = Re-read -(B) = Read To My Wife At Bedtime – No Author = ComicRTD: Read To (my wife) Deej (at bedtime) JANUARY 1st. Lumberjanes, Vol. 5: Band Together (R) 2nd Dragon Ball Z Full Color: Freeza Arc, Vol. 3 9th Dragon Ball Z Full Color: Freeza Arc, Vol. 4 Dragon Ball…
DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1 (Written And Illustrated By Darwyn Cooke) DC:NF is an exercise in what TVTropes calls reconstruction, which I will let a for-real comics author, and so has the edge over your humble blogsman in that he actually knows what the hell he’s talking about, explain: “It strikes me…
August 2021 Books Read Standouts MANGA TRIPLE-FEATURE! Time Paradox Ghostwriter, Vol. 1 / Mama Akuma, Vol. 1 / Delicious In Dungeon, Vol. 1 I’m reading a lot of manga lately, for several reasons: 1. It’s good, and there’s a lot of it. 2. While a 30-volume series is definitely a…
The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics and DC, Written by Carmen Maria Machado, Art by DaNi) “One day, it was just your regular piece-of-shit coal-mining town where people died the way God and the company intended: hacking up pieces of lung or crushed beneath ten tons of rock.” So we…
DCeased INT: My Conservatory, A Fire Crackling Merrily, My Crab-Butler MR. SCUTTLEBUTT In Repose, Knitting Himself An ADORABLE NIGHTCAP In His Wee Crab-House CASEY Sits In A Chair Made From A Whole Sea-Bear, A FEZ Rakishly Askew, Swirling A Snifter Of DR. PEPPER Cuvée 1967 Me: *minding my own business because I know what’s good for…
Kaiju Score, Vol. 1: A Monster Affair God(zilla), what a fun book. Okay, so let’s say there’s a crimer, out there doin’ crimes, right? And one day, she gets the call that comes to all professional scofflaws if they manage to stay in the game long enough: the call from another…
MIND MGMT Omnibus, Vol. 1: The Manager And The Futurist “Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy!” If I was dialing up the latest post from a blog I enjoyed–“Operator! Get me that jackass!”,…
Heterogenia Linguistico, Vol. 1 Honestly, I’ve been staring at this blinking cursor for a good chunk of this Mad Men, wondering how I can even begin to describe a book that I absolutely cannot be objective about because it feels like it was written exactly, specifically for me. Then I remembered that I’m under no…
The Way Of The Househusband, Vol.1 Aw yeah, dis one’s da real deal. If you’re anywhere in the orbit of real-time comics discussion you’ve doubtless heard of TWOTH this past year, or maybe you saw an advert for the confusingly-described animated Netflix adaptation, or if your nerd-credit is way better than mine maybe you…
The Stormlight Archive, Book One: The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson (Content warning for descriptions of mental illness) Aw frig, how does one even begin to summarize one’s favorite book? A book that, no matter how many times one reads it, manages to hold new lessons, new secrets and new things one’s…