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Aquaman, Volume 3: Throne of Atlantis by Geoff Johns

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Aquaman, Volume 3: Throne of Atlantis by Geoff Johns My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you’ve watched the Aquaman film you’ll be familiar with the first part of this volume. It quickly introduces us to who Arthur is and what/where Atlantis is. There’s a jump in the timeline and that took me a minute to fill in the the gaps. It’s one thing I don’t like about graphic novels that are compilations of comic issues. Sometimes there’s gaps in the story where those issues […]

Lightning Round

Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Batman Earth One, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns

Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer

Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

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A few reviews of shorter books that I read quickly over the weekend and didn’t have extra time to flesh out… Tonguebreaker ***** Coming to terms with a society that doesn’t want you based on your body…and creating your own space instead…has to be a challenging thing. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha bares her soul to the world in this collection of poems and one-act plays. Her use of language to lecture gripped me and her exploration of what it means to live in this world, to […]

Geoff Johns’ Reimagining of Batman Continues to Be Great

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In a very recent previous post, I talked about how much I loved Geoff Johns’ take on heroes such as Booster Gold and Wonder Woman (movie version). While he’s a big deal at DC now, there’s a famous story about how we wrote a letter to DC suggesting a storyline that was soundly rejected as being dumb. Years later, as a DC writer, he fan-fictioned that story into DC reality. I love that, and I think it captures why I like Johns so much – […]

The Platonic Batbook

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My BFF Nate and I have been friends for twenty years. He’s been around for all of my hobbies and pursuits (woodcarving, video games, comics, Krav Maga, kayaking, alcoholism, podcasting, camping). He knows me better than almost anyone and knows all about my life-long Batman obsession. So when he said, “Halbs, this Batman comic is great,” I knew it would be great. And it is great.  One of the reasons it’s great is the writer – Geoff Johns. He is the current chief creative officer […]

Sneak Preview of The Flash Season 3

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I’m a big fan of CW’s The Flash. If I’m being honest it’s the TV show I most look forward to watching week-to-week, and the show whose return I’m most eagerly anticipating. The end of last season ended with a game changing moment that seemed poised to shake up the show’s entire universe. I had learned enough about the world of Flash comics to know that they were probably going to incorporate the events of Flashpoint into season 3, so I decided I should read […]



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