I’d probably need all my fingers and toes to count the graphic novels that didn’t live up to their hype (Watchmen, Black Hole, Ghost World, Jimmy Corrigan. . . just to name a few). However…
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Hot Off the Grill
A few blocks away from the 1950s-style diner where our hero has drawn every coffee pot and customer butt-crack is a place she assumes is an abandoned Chinese restaurant. Margaret, an art student has scrounged…
Making Two of My Favorite Things Super Boring
This is more of a warning than a review. Don’t be fooled when you see the words ‘A Rock ‘N’ Roll Life’ on the cover of a graphic novel and think, “Hot damn! This is…
Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal
We need more books like Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson. Ms. Marvel is a new superhero, the first Muslim superhero to head up her own comic. Ms. Marvel is actually…
Delilah Dirk
Hooray for Delilah Dirk! That’s what I want to scream after reading the graphic novel Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff. To start, you should know the story really isn’t anything new….
Rat Queens Rule
I needed something to hold me over between trades of Saga, one of the best comic book series I’ve read in a loooooonnnnnggg time (really, since Fables decided to get kind of boring). Enter Rat…
I’ll take ‘Seconds’
One time I spent a bunch of time laying around in my underwear reading the Scott Pilgrim series from start to finish and if I think about it hard enough I can literally conjure that…
Sex Criminals is Emotionally Hollow
It feels a little weird to have a complaint about emotional realism in a book that centers around two people who have time-stopping orgasms. And yet, here I am complaining about it. I get that…
Worth Every Second of the Wait
After reading Christa’s review of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrimseries, I’m inclined to think 2010 was some kind of golden year in literature that has yet to be duplicated. This has nothing to do with…
Owl Panic & The Review Stew
In the fall of 1981 I was a student at Harriet Bishop Elementary School, where, under the tutelage of Mrs. K. Miller, who’d recently birthed twins, we were making owl puppets from brown lunch sacks….
Fairy Tale Comics
A couple years ago I read and loved Nursery Rhyme Comics, a fabulous, updated look at beloved nursery rhymes with the cartoonists and illustrators making them their own. I was really excited to see the…