I enjoyed this but don’t have much to say except the blond sidekick making a fight wait to start so he can google how to fight multiple guys at once was probably the best gag in the whole comic.
“I’ve just got one bar.”
Category: book
Delicious in Dungeon vol 4
I read the first three volumes of this at my local library before beginning to pick it up from comixology at this volume. Well!
I really like the art in this comic. The backgrounds are exceptional and the characters are emotive and distinct. And we finally get to see the macguffin! In person!
Note to future self: You enjoyed this, you laughed, and you found the skeleton assembling bit very cool.
She-Ra: Legend of the Fire Princess
Mostly what I felt throughout reading this book was that it felt like a really solid episode of the show.
And that Scorpia is a treasure.
Phoebe and Her Unicorn vols 7 & 8
Unicorn of Many Hats
Solid, solid. Unicorn remains well drawn.
Unicorn Theatre
Another graphic novel! This time it’s about friendship and drama camp and drama and it involves seeing Marigold’s sister who has thankfully found a nasal spray that makes her stop snorting out spiders. I appreciated that detail a lot.
I always like the little vocab guides at the end in a ‘oh maybe I’ll learn words betterer’ kind of nerdlinger way.
Click by Kayla Miller
The story and solution to the dilemma here was interesting, but what I REALLY liked about this comic was the art. It was bright, lively, and filled with detailing that really made it pop.
I immediately got the next two to read.
Babysitter’s Little Sister: Karen’s Witch
Graphic novels of a formative book series of my childhood can go two ways, really. Horrifying realizations that the past wasn’t perfect, or fun takes on old nostalgia.
Anyway, this was fun. The art was fun. The story was well translated to the new medium.
I made the mistake of reading the reviews and I realized that maybe not everyone was identifying with Karen as a former Very Busy Child. But that is on them. Karen got up to shit I know I would have and I always found that very appealing.
This was one of three books (Mammal Takeover and One Pound Gospel were the others) that I read while on a tech support call for 5 and a half hours and I credit it with the ability to carry on. I got partway into a Nero Wolfe but that’s when the guy decided to surrender.
Mammal Takeover: Earth Before Us by Abby Howard
Oh ho ho ho. I love this series. I love Abby Howard’s art. I love how much I learn. I love how it reminded me tenrecs exist. I LOVE tenrecs.
I need to reread the first two, just because I like these so much.
I’ve got some of her horror comics from a recent Kickstarter and I’m revving myself up to read them. I love horror, I love Abby Howard’s writing, what’s to lose? My ability to sleep.
One Pound Gospel vol 1
This book by Rumiko Takahashi is very funny (not just for the part where a nun breaks a bottle of alcohol and threatens to shank people) and the art is excellent and I cannot read any further into the series or I will get an eating disorder, thank you.
Goosebumps: Go Eat Worms
Someone described this as a ‘thriller’ and it definitely fit that description (with the addition of ‘for kids’) which made the fact there was a monster for about five hot minutes feel like an early draft got grafted on.
But what’s REALLY important is that the monster serves an excellent post-script that made me laugh and so I don’t care. Viva the somewhat plot agnostic monster!
Just a fuckload of comics, goddamn
New Teen Titans Volume 2:
Sometimes this is completely overwrought and sometimes this is an absolute banger and anyway I’m glad I started reading these comics from jusssst before the world came into existence with me. Koriandr is a delight. Raven requesting that people not be murdered to save her because it makes a mockery of her life was a nice touch. Donna basically got mind raped and the comic really shows how shook up she was instead of glossing over it like Jim Shooter did to poor Ms. Marvel. Cyborg’s stress is very understandable and I continue to love his very empowered costume. It was nice seeing depth to Beast Boy too. I like that little green guy, although I wish I could be assured he was an actual adult with all those adult women he’s going after. Dick and Wally are there I guess.
Wonder Woman vol 1 issue 222:
Wonder Woman fucking kills Walt Disney. (Wade Dazzle).
I think I found the real reason Disney never captured DC at swordpoint.
Wonder Woman vol 1 issue 223:
Hippolyta is appropriately enraged at the idea that the Justice League (MEN and Black Canary) would make Wonder Woman do tasks to prove she had her skills still after her year of amnesia. Even if it was WW’s idea. Even if Hippolyta was the one who erased her memories. Shut up, she does what she wants.
Steve Trevor was dead but he’s okay now. This is how I found out he was dead.
Batman: Gotham Adventures 14
Harley Quinn pulls a classic author technique by manufacturing controversy to increase sales of her poorly selling romance novel, which contains versions of herself and Batman. Batman has chosen not to read this. The sidekicks have, immediately. And so did Joker.
Oh and the controversy was her blowing up buildings and shit. But I like to think that if it happened today, she’d just get into twitter fights like most authors.
Batman: Gotham Adventures 20
Healthy cereal will be the death of us. Liked this one a lot. Had good detective work.
Batman: Gotham Adventures 21
Blind man has more faith in Batman than I do, but it pays off. The end.
Transformers: Windblade #5
I really liked the City Speaker concept. And I like Blurr. And I like Moonracer. And trying to find what was the issue I reread while I was trying to clear out all my in-progress comics that were not actually in progress revealed to me I own a great deal more Transformers comics than I thought I did.
Mera: Tidebreaker
I thought this was gonna be great. The promised plot was Mera trying to find a good time to murder Arthur. Unfortunately it was mostly dull, forgot to continue plot points to the point where they felt like asspulls at the end, and the art had negative energy (even if it was pretty). Oh well. Next time.