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“Comics to make you cry laughing and cry crying”

The Book of Onions by Jake Thompson

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When I was a kid, my dad had a couple of volumes of collections of The Far Side Gallery comics, and I… well, to be honest, when I first read them I was much too young to understand more than one in thirty of them, but eventually, I loved them.  I was so envious of Gary Larson, and his ability to both draw and be funny at the same time, that I spent a significant amount of time in middle school pretending that I also had both those talents.  (I very much did not.) Fortunately for us, there are still some people […]

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8/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

These were not quite the buff dudes I had pictured, but they definitely get the job done

Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes by Andrew Tsyaston

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Cannonball Bingo Spot – Cover Art.  I mean, could you pass this up?   Do you know about Owl Turd Comix? Because you should. It’s … uber relatable?     And hilarious?   And topical?   A little bit too on the nose on occasion? And other times, just 100% the plain honest truth. So this is a collection of some of the best Owl Turd strips, and I highly recommend you check it out, if you could use a laugh as much as I could, right about now.   *This is available for pre-order on Amazon.  My copy was given to […]

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8/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

I’m not sure I understood it, but I liked it?

Doom Patrol Vol. 1: Brick By Brick by Gerard Way, Nick Derington, and Tamra Bonvillain

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“The world is hard and unforgiving, it can change you. Because we’re made up of all the things that happen to us. The good things fill your heart. But the bad things, and what we choose to do with them, really make us who we are…” Okay, so this was a weird one and I’m not sure I grasped everything that went down. I’m not at all familiar with Doom Patrol, so I don’t have any prior knowledge coming into this. I liked My Chemical Romance, so the Gerard Way factor was a positive, and it did look intriguingly weird. […]

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5/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:0 |

Didn’t like as much as Part One.

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Two by Michael Dante DiMartino

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I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first, but I think that’s on me this time. The art is still the same beautiful quality, the writing is still true to the characters, the worldbuilding is still impeccable. It’s just, this volume happens to feature two things that I personally really dislike in stories. And on top of that there’s a cliffhanger! Number one thing that I don’t enjoy in stories almost 100% of the time: stories about gangs and organized crime. I just, I just hate it. I don’t know why. I find those stories dull and hateful. […]

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3/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Bloody, beautiful Monstress

Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu (Author),‎ Sana Takeda (Artist)

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I adored the first volume of Marjorie Liu’s Monstress. Sana Takeda’s art is one of the most stunning that I’ve come across in a comic. At the same time, it’s also unbelievably violent and brutal. I find this pairing somewhat evocative of the Hannibal TV series, which I also loved. (I don’t know what this says about me – that I am ok with gore, provided it’s beautifully presented?) Monstress is set an alternative, matriarchal, steampunk Asia, which is inhabited by humans, anthropomorphic animal gods known as ancients, and cats. Maika Half-wolf is 17 year old of mixed human and […]

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3/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

She’s got the superhero blues.

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 8: Mecca by G. Willow Wilson

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This is probably actually a five-star comic, but it was a little depressing and I resent that it was a little depressing, which is really my problem and not the book’s, but still. Enjoyment is ultimately part of my rating system, so, minus half a star, Ms. Marvel! Regardless of how it made me want to punch all humans in the mouth a little, Ms. Marvel continues to be the most solid, contemplative (yet still somehow fun) superhero comic I’ve read. Granted, that’s not as many as most people because I find superhero comics ultimately exhausting in the same way I find […]

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1/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

So how do the robots eat or drink anyway? HOW DO THEY KISS WITH NO MOUTHS.

Saga, Volume 8 (Saga, #8) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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It says something about this series that this heart-wrenching volume of storytelling is a relief after the last one. Oy, that last one was rough. But this was one was more bittersweet than bitter. Something that I have always appreciated about this series is its tone. Like real life, everything isn’t all bad or all good all the time. Real life is messy, and you can feel many things at once. Real life has hills and valleys, and flat plains. One of the reasons I gave up on reading The Walking Dead is that it was unrelentingly bleak and unchanging […]

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1/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

Where is this series going? I’m not sure I like it . . .

Sex Criminals, Vol. 4: Fourgy! by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky

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A character in this wears a “Pobody’s Nerfect” t-shirt*, and that was the thing I was most amused by, so that should tell you my overall feelings about it, if the rating hasn’t already. *PSA: Watch The Good Place. It is a damn delight. This is the first volume of this series that I haven’t really enjoyed in full. Parts of it were engaging but mostly I found it depressing and uninteresting. That may be just me right now, or it might be the series having an identity crisis (which it’s been having since volume three, actually), or it might be […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:123 |


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