Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

More like Bore: Goddess of Thunder

Thor Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron

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This book includes three issues of the current Thor run, an issue of Thor Annual (a periodic collection of one-shot stories) and a What If? story from forty years ago (a story outside of the normal Marvel timeline). Unfortunately, despite the buffet of options, this collection features little thriller and a lot of filler. I’m disappointed that Marvel would put out a trade with only a few lackluster issues and then slap in some random Thor comics in the back. However, I did think that the short stories from Thor Annual included this book were much more interesting than the issues […]

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9/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

Marlowe Sassily Fights Crime in Nighttime LA Again

The High Window by Raymond Chandler

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If you look through my previous Raymond Chandler reviews, you’ll see that I’m a massive fan of Chandler and his famous Los Angeles private eye, Philip Marlowe. The setting, the sassy dialogue, the day drinking at work – it’s all awesome. Unfortunately, while it is still enjoyable, this third book in the Marlowe series is the least-memorable of the series.  In this story, Marlowe is hired by a cantankerous battle-axe of a wealthy old matriarch to find a missing rare coin. She’s the perfect client for Marlowe – lots of mouth and fire backed by cunning. Neither Marlowe nor the […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

Meow.

Catwoman: When in Rome by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale

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I was a boy when Batman Returns was released in theaters, and I remember Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman making a very big impression on my young psyche. She (Pfieffer/Catwoman) is one of my icons of growing up. The Catwoman character’s grey status in the DC-verse has always interested me. Sometimes she’s good, sometimes she’s not. Maybe she’s both. Maybe she’s playing some other game entirely. All I know is that Catwoman is attractive – every meaning of the word applies.  This particular story takes place concurrently with Loeb/Sale’s The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. I must confess I’ve read neither, but this story stood […]

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9/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:44 |

Psylocke is my hero

X-Men Vol. 1: Primer by Brian Wood

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The biggest obstacle to enjoying X-Men comics is that there are so many X-Men comics. They’ve been around in some form since 1963 and there have been myriad iterations of the X-team, as well as several spinoffs. How do you know where to start or what to read? I picked this 2013-2015 run simply because it has a “Volume 1” on it, and it seemed like as good a place as any to get back into the X-world.  In this iteration of the X-Men, Wolverine may or may not be in charge of the team. However, he’s not present in […]

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9/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Goofy Humor for the Hyperliterate

The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span by Greg Nagan

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One of my best friends/mentors is an intelligent, kindhearted family man who hates public speaking. He will be the first to tell you that as soon as he starts talking publicly, he blacks out. The end result is something between Michael Scott explaining his leadership strategy and Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. This book, using that voice, summarizes fifteen pieces of classic Western literature. The end result is a clever, enjoyable stroll through the history of great books.  In chronological order, Nagan truncates each of the classic stories to approximately a dozen pages. Each section includes a somewhat factual summary […]

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9/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

Write More Comics, Chelsea Cain!

Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain by Chelsea Cain

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Going into this comic, the only thing I knew about Marvel’s superspy hero Mockingbird was that Tyra from Friday Night Lights (Adrianne Palicki) played her on tv. Smart, cheeky, and more than capable to beat up everyone in the room. Sounds good to me! That’s why I picked this one up from the library.  A few pages in, I was hooked. The writing is smart and fun. I laughed so much in this book that I assumed Kate Leth wrote it. Nope – Chelsea Cain penned Mockingbird. As far as I can tell, she’s primarily a novelist. I don’t know […]

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9/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Geoff Johns’ Reimagining of Batman Continues to Be Great

Batman: Earth One Vol. 2 by Geoff Johns

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In a very recent previous post, I talked about how much I loved Geoff Johns’ take on heroes such as Booster Gold and Wonder Woman (movie version). While he’s a big deal at DC now, there’s a famous story about how we wrote a letter to DC suggesting a storyline that was soundly rejected as being dumb. Years later, as a DC writer, he fan-fictioned that story into DC reality. I love that, and I think it captures why I like Johns so much – he’s a fan.  This book picks up where volume one (click the link for my review) […]

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9/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

Thor: Goddess of Courage and Quips

Thor Vol. 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron

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I have no real knowledge of Thor other than the Marvel movies and some heavy metal songs that I kind of understand, so my background of Thor’s Marvel mythology is limited. Thor, that chiseled Norse god of the uncovered torso, can’t get it up. He can’t pick up Mjolnir, his hammer. It’s just sitting on a moon. He’s been trying for weeks to pick it up and it won’t budge. Thor won’t eat or sleep. Thor just wants to hammer, but he can’t. Finally, he goes home to his parents’ house (Asgard castle). While he’s away from the hammer, a […]

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9/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:39 |

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