Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Legends of the World's Finest by Walt Simonson & Daniel Brereton

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Note: I didn't plan to read this book and have the review land on Halloween -- that was purely random. But it's nice when things ...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 10/28

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Here we go again with the Monday thing. As a possible distraction, I post every week about whatever new books I've gotten, in the hope...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Sweatshop by Peter Bagge and others

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This is not a limited series. I know: I was surprised, too. But Peter Bagge's afterword, which explains the history of Sweatshop , ma...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Bakers: Babies and Kittens by Kyle Baker

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So, I've been re-reading Kyle Baker's funnybooks -- meaning his comics that are funny, since he's done other kinds as well --...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 10/21

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Welcome back. Every week, I list whatever new books I've seen, from publicity, purchase or (some word meaning "library" th...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

The Story of the Lincoln County War by Rick Geary

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I almost wish I'd held onto Louis Riel and reviewed that together with Rick Geary's The Story of the Lincoln County War : both ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Conan: Book of Thoth by Busiek, Wein & Jones

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We really don't need any more origin stories. OK, maybe if it's integrated -- a quick flashback during something else -- it'...
Monday, October 09, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 10/7

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Some weeks I buy a lot of books. Some weeks I get a bunch in the mail. Either one is frankly wonderful. Some weeks I just turn around, loo...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Louis Riel by Chester Brown

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The great thing about history is that it never stops being history. It might technically get older, but, realistically, a hundred years i...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Mind MGMT, Vol. 2: The Futurist by Matt Kindt

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Sometimes I read too slowly. I got to the first volume of Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT series back in 2014 -- already late, since it'...
Monday, October 02, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 9/30

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The end of September saw a cold snap in my neck of the woods, as if Nature said "well, right, that's Summer thoroughly done for n...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Read in September

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My current working situation has started to seriously affect my reading, which is about the silliest and most counter-productive thing in ...
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...