Cannonball Read 18

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Princess Lessons for a Princess Party and thensome

Cursed Princess Club v.5 by Lamb Cat

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So there’s finally some progress on the question of Gwen’s parents and possible cursed-ness or maybe lack thereof. Jamie is still rather pointless, except to make a minor connection of interest with the Queen of the Plaid Kingdom. The Plaid Princes are sort of backseat, except for Frederick; Frederick and Gwen actually sort of make a little progress, although there might/will be trouble ahead because of course it’s still too early for the fairy tale ending. The Plaid King actually gets a little more character […]

A Wordless Comic Means No Fun Quote Review Title

A Sea of Love by Wilfred Lupano, Gregory Panaccione (illustrator)

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This is a book that only came to my attention because I had a Read Harder task to complete and nothing on my current 600+ Want to Read shelf on Goodreads had anything that fit the bill. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the first wordless comic I’ve ever read as an adult.   This is the second book that I tried for this task, as the first ended up not actually being wordless and I returned it to the library (Google is […]

Creature Cats get Cozy

Yokai Cats vol. 1 by Pandania

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Bingo 20: Disco On the assumption that “disco” may be applied to any culture blending, I am going with Yokai Cats 1 for this. That and also somehow managing to use both muted but also very colorful illustrations. The muted part is not disco, but the rest is, so we’re going with it. I have to admit that I was a little surprised that there appear to be four volumes of this, which I noted adding it to my Goodreads. It’s pretty simple: envision various […]

Truth in Dreams?

Cursed Princess Club v.3 by LambCat

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Bingo 1: Dreams Starting in the center because 1) it fits my most recent read, and 2) it’s not bad bingo strategy. Dreams and prophecies are common in fairy tales, and The Cursed Princess Club (v.3), being the fairy-tale riff that it is, is no exception. The main plot this time deals with Gwen getting her portrait painted by Lord Leopold. Gwen is the third princess but she’s different as the third child always is, but in her case her difference is that she’s not […]

Ah, the Art of Clumsily Remaking a Classic

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell (Vol. 1) by Jordie Bellaire

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once Bitten (Vol. 2) by Jordie Bellaire

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hellmouth (Vol. 3) by Jordie Bellaire

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire (Vol. 4) by Jordie Bellaire

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        Okay, so let me explain what’s going on here real quick, because the comic doesn’t actually do a particularly good job of it: it’s adapting Buffy into the current modern day, rather than the modern day at the time that it aired.  So: pushing the story forward by about 20 years. And seeing what still works, what changes, and what snaps under the pressure.  It’s an interesting idea. It’s not so far of a time-displacement that it makes everything different (which […]

The popular thing I don’t get

Tower of God, vol. 1 by Siu

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You know how when there’s all this hype over a story and then you finally get to it, and it just doesn’t seem that special? That’s Tower of God vol 1. Granted, the anime is the thing that really took off and I’m looking at the comic strip version that the anime’s based on, but still. This seems so generic, I don’t get it. Basically, there’s this mysterious tower, and if you get in (and apparently only the chosen usually are allowed) then you have […]



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