Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Dramarama (and a delayed CANNONBALL)!

Giant Days, Vol. 1 (single issues 1-4) by John Allison, Lissa Treiman

Giant Days, Vol. 2 (single issues 5-8) by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin

Giant Days Vol. 3 (single issues 9-12) by John Allison, Max Sarin, Jim Campbell, Lissa Treiman

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I started this review back in March (EEP!) and it has been my albatross now for nearly two months. Double EEP! I adored the web comics, and when I was feeling down around the Covid-aversary I dug into some good- old- fashioned- comfort- comics. What began as a pick-me-up purchase of the first volume became a “tune it all out” obsession once I realized that more volumes were available on both Scribd and Hoopla. My diversion turned into a marathon reading of volumes 1-12 with […]

Read it just so I’d be prepped for the movie.

Eternals by Neil Gaiman

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I read this over two months ago now, and it didn’t make a strong impression on me at the time, so this review isn’t going to be based on anything really concrete. Just FYI. I’ve actually had this on my TBR forever, because Neil Gaiman, but the premise never grabbed me enough for me to actually do the (slight) work of picking it up. But the movie is coming out soon-ish, so I figured I’d give it a go. And it was fine! I liked […]

Giant-Sized Fun

Giant Sized X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman

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The Annual Giant-Size X-Men issue is always fun. Hickman delivers the first in the new House of X era with aplomb. The issue features five stores tracking characters and plotlines that are both new and ones we’ve been following for a while: Jean and the White Queen need to save Storm, Nightcrawler and the New Mutants investigate the old X-Mansion, Magneto hangs out with Namor in a set-up for the Hellfire Club Party in June, Fantomex (a character I’ve never heard of) is given a […]

A Good Start

X-Men Volume 1 by Jonathan Hickman

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The first of Hickman era of X-Men comics sees the new mutant nation of Krakoa firmly established after the events of House/Powers of X. This volume collects the first six issues of the main X-Men title. It’s pretty good, and thoroughly entertaining. There’s a few longer arcs that stretch several issues, and a one-off that I suspect we’ll see more from down the line. There are a lot of seeds being planted (figuratively and in a few cases, literally). Hickman chooses to focus his energy […]

Hands All Red

Maids by Katie Skelly

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Katie Skelly’s latest outstanding horror comic Maids opens with a gory promise to its readers: keep reading to discover whose bloody eyeball is rolling across the floor. Although, if you’re a true crime fan you may already know the answer: Maids is based on the story of Christine and Léa Papin, two sisters working as servants in a wealthy household who in 1933 butchered their employer Léonie Lancelin and her daughter Genevieve. But even if you’re already familiar with the case, which sparked debates over […]

Bond…Anachronism Bond

Ian Fleming's James Bond in VARGR by Warren Ellis, Jason Masters

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My local library allows us to roam the shelves in thirty-minute increments, in limited numbers. It was recently my turn. For the first time in over a year I was able to take my time browsing the graphic novel collections (we have one in the general fiction section and one for teens). To my surprise, the library had acquired several new-to-me  selections. The first one I grade was James Bond in VARGR. I’m a Bond fan and also a fan of spy comics; some of […]



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