Once, far too long ago, there was a dumb meme to make an end-of-year blog post out of the first and last sentences from each month of the year on that blog. I liked the way it randomly summed up a year, so I've been doing it ever since. And now I'm doing it again.
January
The whole point about teens is that they're not done yet.And Frakes makes that real; reading this book is a lot like listening to a good storyteller talk about her life and adventures.
February
I know cliches only get to be that way because they're durable and common, but, boy howdy! does this book rely heavily on a very cliched cliche for its premise.Writing this post, I realize I consistently dropped one of those pesky "e"s in my post about Let Me Be Perfectly Clear, and that no one noticed for several years. It's correct now. I think.
March
This is the most over-the-top version of Beowulf since the silly 2008 movie, but that might just be what inevitably happens when you let comics people get their hands of a story about a guy who kills monsters and dragons.But it all does feel faintly pointless, as if Moore can write these everybody-else's-characters-fight stories in his sleep, and is now doing so.
April
Well, this is going to be difficult to write about..Ollmann shows us that's not all that bad, even for a cannibal sadist alcoholic suicide.
May
The storms of crossover have (briefly?) passed in this book, leaving Kamala Khan to actually live her own life for a while -- and that's good, both because that's supposed to be the point of this series, and because her life is plenty busy enough all by itself.This is a Morrow book, and he's not about to change now -- if you can come along on that journey with him, you will have an fascinating and unique ride.
June
Just because all of 2018 is Book-A-Day doesn't mean that I can't have smaller reading projects in the middle of the big one!So it's only right that I share with you the first single from Okkervil River's new record, In the Rainbow Rain, which sounds very sunny indeed.
July
I don't want to oversell my expertise here: I've never worked in a law firm, and my professional work is generally marketing to attorneys within companies rather than firms.No, not the one you're thinking of. Not that one, either. Definitely not that one. The one who's getting a movie.
September
I should note that this book doesn't say that it's volume one: I got a copy from the library, which is the 2006 edition and came out several years before there was a Volume 2.Gudsnuk is funny and smart and tells good stories with good people. I hope she does a lot more comics, so I can read 'em.
October
This week, I Love (And Rockets) Mondays leaves behind the lands of carefully tended and curated reprints and heads into the off-road weeds of messy serial comics.I'm hoping McNeil eventually explains the governance of this world, because so far I see nothing to keep one clan from eliminating another, or any mechanisms other than violence to solve inter-clan disputes.
November
I'm pretty sure this has been published in one volume, at least once. But the current edition is two volumes, and that's what I read.Now, I suspect my standards of a likable-enough protagonist may be more strict (or just different) from others', since I just read a couple of graphic novels today with an absolutely appalling set of young heroines who I think I was supposed to root for. So you may sympathize with Resnick more than I did -- and this book is definitely funny, though often in the cringe-laugh manner.
December
OK, the original Ghost in the Shell is not as wonderful as some people say, but it's a solid cyberpunk story in comics form: crisp and understandable and visually interesting and a good example of a particular era in manga and science fiction.It's been going thirty-five years so far, in various formats. I can hope for thirty-five more, can't I? To see what ninety-something Jaime and Gilbert will be doing?
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