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Let us all shout

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Another thrift store find. My copy is missing the dust jacket, and its pages are stained by an unknown substance on the bottom of the book, but I’m not gonna complain too much for $2.99. I recognized the author, yet I cannot recall with certainty whether I read her most well-known work, Speak, or not. I have this nagging suspicion that I have read something by her, but I can’t place for sure what. Regardless, I picked up Shout because of that familiarity and my […]

Two “friends” talk over pizza…

She-Hulk #3 by Rainbow Rowell

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Can I start this review with a short review of the Marvel subscription service? It might save you money, but it’s kinda trash in every other respect. I thought subscribing mere days after the first issue of She-Hulk came out would net me that issue, but no. Then the second issue didn’t arrive until nearly a month after its release. And due to a variety of factors, from the website being antiquated with next to no information on when anything is going to be (or […]

Did he run out of ideas?

Everyone Is Tulip by Dave Baker

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During our time in Detroit, my fiancee and her parents won some gift cards to local shops, including a favorite of mine, a comic-book store called Vault of Midnight. In the time since then, our gift cards have been refilling themselves on their own. We just go with it and use the money, because who’s gonna turn down free money? I’ve now gotten at least a couple things from Vault of Midnight for free, with the latest being Everyone Is Tulip, purchased for me by […]

Under the Red Hood goes under the hood

Batman: Under the Red Hood by Judd Winick

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What seems like forever ago now, I watched (and loved) the animated movie based upon this particular run of Batman comics. I didn’t even realize at the time that it was pulled directly from the comics, since I was used to the Marvel method of comic book moviemaking, which generally is to hodgepodge stuff from the comics together into something that’s simultaneously old and new. Thankfully, this isn’t the case with Under the Red Hood, because I was in the market for more of the same. […]

In a time when conspiracy theories run rampant, Sabrina seems all the more vital a read

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

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It’s not exactly been the best time for reading. I’m spending most of my breaks at work looking for a different job, since the one I started at two weeks ago sold me a bill of lies, and I’ve been sick for what feels like about half the time lately. Today, I’m on my second cold in a row. And when you’re tired on a good day, like I am, a cold will leave you with practically no energy to speak of. This means reading […]

She-Hulk is more “she” than “Hulk,” and I’m okay with that

She-Hulk #1 by Rainbow Rowell

She-Hulk #2 by Rainbow Rowell

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Like with Runaways before it, I knew nothing of She-Hulk prior to Rainbow Rowell being brought on to write the character (and Tatiana Maslany, from Orphan Black, getting cast as the titular character in an upcoming Marvel movie). Okay, I guess that’s not 100% true; I knew She-Hulk was, well, a Hulk. That being said, I had no idea what that meant. Was she simply The Hulk, only female and, as a result, not as, well, hulking? If these first two issues are anything to […]



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