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“Of course it doesn’t make sense—what business do you have expecting things to make sense?”

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

October 29, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

She has leaned into it. All of it. I have been on an existential journey. I read this whole thing last night after I got home from work. My one complaint about it that I have right now is that hardcover is the wrong format for this book. My wrists hurt! It’s so heavy! I mean, it’s a beautiful book, but at points genuinely physically hard to read. I imagine if I had some sort of tablet or color Kindle that would be ideal. If […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: Allie Brosh, Comics, dogs, Existential Crises, existentialism, humor, Mental Health, Solutions and Other Problems

narfna's CBR12 Review No:159 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic · Tags: Allie Brosh, Comics, dogs, Existential Crises, existentialism, humor, Mental Health, Solutions and Other Problems ·
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Play me your tiny violins and order me a waaambulance, because this review is very whiny.

Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals by C.S. Pacat

September 8, 2020 by narfna 3 Comments

These take way too long to come out and they are way too short give me the next one nowwww. Seriously, it’s so frustrating. I just binge re-read the first three volumes as a refresher, and then went straight into this one, and it took me all of an hour, and then it was done, and now I have to wait. And I’ve been trained to wait since I was a wee-reader, but for some reason, waiting for this series is something that is very […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: boarding school, c.s. pacat, Comics, fence, fencing, graphic novels, johanna the mad, LGBTQIA, narfna, Rivals, vol. 4

narfna's CBR12 Review No:128 · Genres: Graphic Novel/Comic · Tags: boarding school, c.s. pacat, Comics, fence, fencing, graphic novels, johanna the mad, LGBTQIA, narfna, Rivals, vol. 4 ·
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I liked this more on re-read in some ways, and a lot less in others.

Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

September 1, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

The first time I read this I wasn’t very well-versed in comics, in the Marvel universe in particular, or in Gaiman’s work. There was barely an MCU in 2011. The First Avenger would be released three months later. 1602 was an okay read for me at the time, but I remembered almost nothing about it before picking it up again. I definitely liked it more this time, and got more out of it, but there was some stuff that was sort of perplexing and things […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: alternate universe, Comics, elizabethan england, historical fiction, marvel 1602, Marvel Comics, narfna, Neil Gaiman, retellings

narfna's CBR12 Review No:114 · Genres: Graphic Novel/Comic · Tags: alternate universe, Comics, elizabethan england, historical fiction, marvel 1602, Marvel Comics, narfna, Neil Gaiman, retellings ·
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“Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?” “Then what died? who are you mourning?” “A point of view.”

The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman

August 26, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is the second time while reading this series I have been sorely tempted to give one of these five stars, and I probably will when I revisit in future. What’s holding me back right now is that for most of this, I was only mildly emotionally engaged, but the very last issue, “The Tempest,” is one of my favorite things in this series, and maybe that Gaiman has ever written. I got a little teary while reading it, and in a different state of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Charles Vess, Comics, graphic novels, horror, narfna, Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, the wake

narfna's CBR12 Review No:102 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Charles Vess, Comics, graphic novels, horror, narfna, Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, the wake ·
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Unfortunately a little underwhelmed by this one.

The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

August 10, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I feel like I might be missing something here. I liked reading this but it wasn’t my favorite of the Sandman comics, and I don’t get the rapturous praise for it. I think some of my reaction may be again that I have read this series so spread out and I’m not making the connections with previous characters like I should. Some of it is also probably that it’s not just vibrating on the right frequency for me. Shrug. This is the climax, the denouement […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novel/Comic, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, Comics, graphic novels, horror, narfna, Neil Gaiman, the kindly ones, The Sandman, vol. 9

narfna's CBR12 Review No:94 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novel/Comic, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, Comics, graphic novels, horror, narfna, Neil Gaiman, the kindly ones, The Sandman, vol. 9 ·
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