Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Review: Arrowsmith

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 After admiring Carlos Pacheco's work on Superman, I decided to look for more of his work, and came across Arrowsmith, which comes in tw...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Review: AstroCity Metro Book Vol 6

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 I never got around to buying/reading the last few AstroCity collections, and it turned out that they're now all available on Hoopa as ...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Review: Superman - Camelot Falls

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 While browsing Hoopla I saw that Busiek wrote another Superman story called Camelot Falls , so I checked it out as well. The thesis behind ...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Review: Batman - Creature of the Night

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 After reading Superman - Secret Identity, I discovered that Kurt Busiek wrote the Batman equivalent called Creature of the Night which sho...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Review: Superman - Secret Identity

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 Somehow I'd missed that Kurt Busiek wrote a Superman story called Secret identity . Well, of course I had to go and check it out from H...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Review: Good Omens Graphic Novel

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 I will confess that I've always bounced off Terry Prachett's work. Disc World, you name it, I can't read more than a few pages ...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Review: Supergirl - Woman of Tomorrow

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 No, I still haven't seen the new Superman movie yet (I'll wait to see it in streaming video), but I read enough James Gunn intervie...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Review: Spent by Alison Bechdel

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 Alison Bechdel is famous for her rule about how to evaluate women characters in movies. I didn't have first hand experience of her work...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Review: Batman/Catwoman

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 Batman/Catwoman was on sale at a reasonable price, and I bought it hoping that it would be a great graphic novel. (Tom King's gotten m...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Review: Justice (DC Graphic Novel)

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 DC put a bunch of graphic novels on sale, and I noted that I'd never read Justice before, and the artist was Alex Ross, which made it ...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Re-read: Kingdom Come

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  Kingdom Come is Alex Ross's beautifully painted story set in the future of the DC Universe that's non-canon. In this world, publi...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Re-read: V for Vendetta

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 In the wake of the murder of Brian Thompson by a vigilante I had to re-read V for Vendetta , Alan Moore's treatise on totalitarianism a...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Review: Flashpoint

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 I came across Flashpoint after I fished Three Jokers and checked it out despite my misgivings about Three Jokers. To my surprise this is a...
Monday, December 02, 2024

Review: Three Jokers

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 For various reasons, we activated a Kindle Unlimited subscription. I was browsing and saw Three Jokers and checked it out for grins. This ...
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Review: Clover Collector's Edition

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 I saw Clover's Collector's Edition at the library and the cover said it was a most daring science-fiction work. The art seemed nic...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium Four

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 The Walking Dead Compendium Four is the last volume in the series. In this volume, the story has Rick Grimes' collection of 4 communit...
Thursday, February 08, 2024

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium Three

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 The Walking Dead Compendium Three continues Rick Gimes' story of post apocalyptic survival.  This volume features a conflict with a ...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium 2

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 The Walking Dead Compendium Two continues with the story from the first book. The post apocalyptic story as always is pretty unrealistic. ...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Re-read: The Walking Dead - Compendium 1

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 Last year was a year when Boen loved zombies. I enjoyed The Last of Us TV show, though the video game is still too hard for him. Similarly,...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Review: American Born Chinese

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 American Born Chinese is a graphic novel depicting the Asian American experience. It intertwines 3 narratives: the story of the monkey kin...