Battle of the Linguist Mages – Scotto Moore I have been thirty percent through this book since before I started the Google blog that preceded this website, because I made the fatal mistake: “taking” “a” “break” during a small lull in the action, and before I could say power French I realized it’s *mumble* years…
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Reading Roundup Week Of 2.4.24: Parts And Pants Unknown
Batman by Chip Zdarsky, Vol. 2: The Bat-Man Of Gotham Chipper’s first volume was, as expected, spectacular: Batman is once again undone by his only true enemy: himself and was (spoiler) either exploded into his constituent, bat-shaped molecules or, as appears to be the case, flung through the aether into Parts Unknown. In this volume,…
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…
Books Read November 2022
(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!) (R = Reread, B = Read To Wife At Bedtime) Fire Force, Vol. 5 Atsushi…
Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 3: Reporter, I ‘Ardly Know Her
ONCE UPON A TIME, mistakes were made. And as far as community-service sentences go, I reckon yelling about comics while watching Star Trek: Picard is getting off fairly easy. In f–YO WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MY BOY JAMES CALLIS, HOLY SHIT GAIUS BALTAR IN THE HOUSE! Or w–wait, it’s been some years since my…
Auld Langue Mystique: The Ballistic Omniglossia Of Curse Words
I try preeeeeetty hard to make my posts relatable and have as broad an appeal as possible, but this one? Ohohoho, she is just for me, citizens. Yesterday I finished a run-up of Curse Words, the criminal enterprise/war on decency/gift to humanity by Charles Soule (various Star Wars titles, Eight Billion Genies, Undiscovered Country, Daredevil:…
Books Read September 2022
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Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 2: Farmful If Swallowed
So, according to these instructions rubber-banded to a can of vitamin soup that just flew through my—thankfully open—window, I’m supposed to review Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm and see what there is to like about it? What the hell? Who signed me up for this? THE MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, HE’S ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD. (Obligatory reminder…
Let’s Talk Bookish Week of 2.3.23: Reviews And Spoilers!
Hi how are you, yes, good, I am glad to hear it, what’s that, why yes, I did have to start my 30-hour playthrough of Fire Emblem: Engage over because I THOUGHT that skirmishes were Classic Mode character-death safe-zones, AND I WAS WRONG, and I am so angry that a team of scientists from Norway…
Let’s Talk Bookish Week Of 1.27.23: Freebie!
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month and includes a piece of exclusive bonus content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) OL’ FREEBIE STRIKES ONCE AGAIN, but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Run ‘er up a flagpole and I will salute….