Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s been four months since the night of gore, chaos, and the failed demonic summoning…but wait! There is more!

The Night Eaters V02 Her Little Reapers. by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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Ages ago I read The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. The horror books of horror graphic novels. I mean, EEEEWWW OMG what was I thinking? Blood, gore, houses eating people…. Yet, Yup. I (mostly) liked it. Enough to say: I guess I’ll try volume two, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers. But I didn’t get to it for several years actually. So many in fact, I forgot what the ham-hocks was going on. Which is partly okay […]

The only gift we can give humans is not absolute victory, but instead a world with less fear

The Night Eaters, vols. 2-3 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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Bingo Row 3 – N Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda are probably best known as the writer and artist for Monstress – an ongoing gorgeous and overwhelming fantasy comic series. Their collaboration on the Night Eaters is different enough to not be another Monstress, but similar enough that it’s clearly the same creative team: The art is dreamy and fantasy-conducive, even when it’s set in modern day North America and not a high fantasy world; the characters are mean and unlikeable, which makes them oddly […]

Hard pass

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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My wife and I went to our local comic shop several months ago, and this was one of the books she grabbed. I liked the art, she liked it was a story about women, by women. I want to get out of the way right that the outset that the art of Sana Takeda is absolutely beautiful. I mean, that’s immediately obvious from the cover. Beyond that, there was almost nothing about this book that I liked. We start off with Maika Halfwolf, an Arcanic, […]



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