Thursday, September 28, 2017

Hershey by Michael D'Antonio

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Another case of plans dashed: my family takes a vacation to Hersheypark every summer, to ride roller coasters and engage in general friv...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Glister by Andi Watson

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The fields of Young Adult have been calling to comics-makers for the past decade or so: a seductive song of a market with a large, apprec...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Transit by Ted McKeever

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It's important to check your assumptions against reality regularly: we often find that what we think is true actually has very little...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 9/23

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It can be a burden having an excessively tidy mind. You need to do things just so , and to follow precedents exactly, even when that's a...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Notes, Vol. 1: Born to Be a Larve by Boulet

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Boulet is one of those European Cartoonists who are so cool they only need one name, like Herge. (And several others -- I feel like ther...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

I Told You So by Shannon Wheeler

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I can't claim any connection to the cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, despite the name similarity. Oh, he lives in Portland, as does my br...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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It's impossible to read everything. Even worse. it's often impossible to keep reading the new books by all of the writers you...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 9/16

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For those of you keeping track at home -- are there people who even read blogs nowadays? I tend to think I'm typing this mostly for my o...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman and Collen Doran

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I didn't remember Neil Gaiman's story "Troll Bridge" well. In fact, if you'd asked me about it, I would have assume...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Contrary To Popular Believe by Joey Green

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We all need something to read when we're doing something else. (Well, there may be people who don't read, but they are poor, stun...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Dragons: The Modern Infestation by Pamela Wharton Blanpied

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Look -- you know I love fake non-fiction, right? The kind of books that seem to have come from a world somewhat similar to our own, but...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Black Dahlia by Rick Geary

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I'm in danger of turning into a broken record on this subject: Geary has been doing the same thing brilliantly for so long that I...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 9/9

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Hey guys! When I get books in the mail, I write about them here, every Monday morning. When I don't get any books in the mail that wee...
Friday, September 08, 2017

Kyle Baker, Cartoonist, Volume 2: Now With More Bakers

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I used to be a huge Kyle Baker fan -- I loved his first two books The Cowboy Wally Show and Why I Hate Saturn , and equally loved his ear...
Thursday, September 07, 2017

White Noise by Don DeLillo

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Every so often a reader needs to take on a masterpiece. You can only bump along with decent or pretty good books for so long: once in a w...