Someone at Marvel overindulged in mead and thought what if the whole Marvel Universe were set in Elizabethan times and what if we got Neil Gaiman to write it? Wouldn’t that be great? Oh fine, that’s not what happened. The whole idea came to Gaiman while he was wandering around Venice. It’s an interesting curiosity with some good stuff and at least one hugely problematic thing. It is 1602. Queen Elizabeth is near the end of her reign, the Inquisition is active in Spain, James […]
Oh, $#@! – Translated From Skrull
While perusing the free Deadpool volumes available to me, I decided to go ahead and try as many different Deadpool writers as possible. Here we have Daniel Way’s Deadpool, taking on a Skrull force, defeating them, and then defecting to their side in Secret Invasion. Deadpool reasons that he was created to be a killer of men, so why not kill men for the Skrull? Daniel Way’s Deadpool is crazy with a purpose, talks to himself intelligently, and that we see his P.O.V. (Pool-o-vision). I […]
Puzzle Box Structure Means You Can Read in Any Order
Yes, I have been hoovering up graphic novels like mad while I have this trial membership. It’s been great. But move over Thor, Patsy, Jessica, and Red Sonja, I have a new fictional girl crush – Bobbi Morse, Mockingbird. She starts off looking like Battle Barbie, but she is a paragon of science, smarts, sarcasm, and kicking. She still looks like Battle Barbie at the end what with the long blond hair and blue eyes, but I’m ok with that. When Bobbi was little, she […]
An Image of an Image.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of Unfinished through a CBR giveaway in return for a prompt and honest review. Other Disclaimer: The author is a Cannonballer, so I was going to find something nice about this book. I didn’t have to look hard, it is a fantastic graphic novel. I wouldn’t call myself a Marilyn Monroe buff, but I do know a lot about her. She is an icon and a cultural touchstone. As such, a lot of her humanity has been stripped away. You […]
I was worried when I found this in the Little Free Library
So I was both excited and scared when I saw this in the Little Free Library. I grew up LOVING the Far Side. I had t-shirts, I had wall calendars, I had a bunch of the books, and I used to basically just examine them to try to work out the jokes, try to catch the references, try to figure out what was going on both in terms of the jokes. So when I saw this, the problem was that this was potentially fraught: what […]
Xoxoxoe’s Wonderful Graphic Novel
Disclaimer: I received a copy of Unfinished through a CBR giveaway in return for a prompt and honest review. First of all, I unabashedly love Marilyn Monroe. While this makes me a prime candidate for anything involving the ’50s sexpot I am not usually a big fan of graphic novels. I tend to want more information than the format allows but Unfinished is vibrant & beautiful without sacrificing details. Elizabeth Periale, our own xoxoxoe, combines well researched facts and quotes with inferred internalized dialog and colorful illustrations. The structure […]
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