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Alone at sea

Alone by Christophe Chaboute

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On Saturday, my mom came over and, as she often does, was there before I was ready to go. Before I jumped in the shower, I put Alone down in front of her and said, “Oh hey, check out this graphic novel I picked up!” figuring she’d give it a glance and go back to her e-reader with the book she was already working on. Now, I’ve read comic books and graphic novels my whole life, from every genre and style, and never, ever, has my mother expressed any interest in even picking one up, let alone reading it. So, […]

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8/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Captain Marvel is pretty awesome in comics form too

Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

Captain Marvel: Down by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

Avengers Assemble: The Enemy Within by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

Avengers Assemble: Infinity by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

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Back in the summer of 2016, I read what I believed to be the first trade in a run about Captain Marvel, but that turned out to be incorrect and Marvel had just been stupid in how they were rebranding and renumbering their comics. As I came to discover, the reason there was so little back story given about Carol Danvers, her powers and her role in the Avengers, is because despite being entitled Vol 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More, it was by no means the start of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run. Rather let down by the experience, I put Captain […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Heavy Vinyl – not so heavy on plot but still fun!

Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva, Irene Flores

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Heavy Vinyl appears to have gone through some adjustments over its publication.  Its title was originally Hi-Fi Fight Club and then for some reason they changed the name of the record store it is set in from Vinyl Mayhem to Vinyl Destination. Both changes are better, but many of the web descriptions of the comics have the old names so that’s confusing. Anyhow, spoiler alert: it’s about a fight-club in a record store! Sort of. I haven’t read or seen Fight Club, but this seems to be more of a vigilante group than the Fight Club of Palahniuk (and later, […]

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3/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Luke Cage meets noir meets The Diviners meets more please!

Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä

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Abbott is a brief, five-issue series set in 1970s Detroit about journalist Elena Abbott, lone black female reporter at the Detroit Daily. Abbott prefers to delve into the stories the paper’s board would rather not see printed. She’s recently getting heat for her piece on the death of a black teen at the hands of police, but so far she’s been protected by her loyal boss. She has a new case on the horizon and it’s a grisly one.  A mutilated police horse is found and the Detroit PD claims the crime stinks of the Black Panthers.  As Elena digs […]

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3/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Higher. Further. Faster. YAY!

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 2 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 3 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 4 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

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I’ve been waiting for the Captain Marvel movie since 2012! I read the first few volumes for a MOOC called “Gender Issues in Comics” which was presented on Canva by Christy Blanch. It was a wonderful course which jumpstarted my interest in superhero comics (particularly female superhero comics).  And I completely got why Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers changed the game for female comics readers.  So in anticipation of the new movie, I avoided all casting reveals and spoilers and revisited the first 3.5 volumes of the collected editions of DeConnick’s run on the series: Earth’s Mightiest Hero.  Full confession though: I stopped […]

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3/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

In which Squirrel Girl and puns are not enough

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It's True by Ryan North and Erica Henderson, et al

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  What do you get when you try to write a story with no main plotline, and instead focus entirely on a bunch of hardly connected side stories? The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It’s True is what. I should have known I wouldn’t like this much since the first volume annoyed me, but I wanted to see if things got any better; they did not. My biggest problem with Doreen and her companions (now she has several, and I’m not totally sure how all that happened) is that she’s presented more as a parody of the Marvel universe. […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

In which I travel to the Old Republic

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Vol. 1: Commencement by John Jackson Miller (Writer), Travis Charest (Artist), Michael Atiyeh (Artist), Brian Ching (Artist), Travel Foreman (Artist)

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This book is another Read Harder Challenge twofer. I don’t read a lot of comics; it’s a style of book that isn’t as natural for me as it so obviously is for others. While I was reading through this year’s tasks I saw there were two that related to comics and I knew that I would have to step out of my comfort zone (which is the entire point) to get them done. But… it was much easier than anticipated. Either my tastes are broader than I give myself credit for or my sleuthing skills have improved over the years. […]

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6/21/2018 |

I feel a little lost here, but I still like it

World of Wakanda: Issues 1-6 by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey

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Living in a pretty small, remote town, we make certain to take the kids (yeah…the kids) to a comic book store whenever we are in a bigger city. I walked in to one this winter, and all packaged up just like they knew I was coming, there were the six issues in the limited run World of Wakanda comic series. It hit all the right buttons: Black Panther, so hot right now! Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey, interesting feminist thinker and poet, first two black women to write for Marvel! Female artists, I like it! Dora Milaje focused, representation is […]

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4/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:7 |


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