Cannonball Read 18

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It’s a lot harder to write reviews than it is to read books.

Duma Key by Stephen King

The Totally Awesome Hulk (Vol. 1): Cho Time by Greg Pak

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi

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Duma Key (3.5 stars) These days, most of my “reading” comes in the form of audiobooks. I can burn through stories a lot quicker that way, because it allows me to listen to them while I’m driving, or while I’m at work. But, given that I’m largely home-bound because of the coronavirus, and I’ve got two small kids to take care of, I’m not left with much time to listen to my books. So, I pulled this book off of one of my many book […]

A couple of Hulk stories that left me mostly underwhelmed.

Planet Hulk by Greg Pak

World War Hulk by Greg Pak

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Planet Hulk (2006) – 3 stars It’s always a bit of chore jumping into superhero comics. They are a bit like daytime soap operas: years of back story, dozens of characters, and high drama that doesn’t really mirror real life in any conceivable way. So it’s with some trepidation that I pick up any of these books these days. Except for the rare foray into the genre for Cannonball Read, I haven’t really read comics in about twenty years. So I’m pretty out of touch […]

Transformers meet Voltron

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Transformers meet Voltron in Mech Cadet Yu Volume one by Greg Pak, Takeshi Miyazawa and Triona Farrell. I would like to point out when I say Transformer and Voltron I do not mean the modern-day versions but the awesome 1980s versions I grew up on. The story itself is totally today, but still the creators are paying honor to the classics. The story is every few years giant robots from outer space come to bond with cadets from the Sky Corps Academy.  Sixty-years ago, the […]



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