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In which Squirrel Girl and puns are not enough

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It's True by Ryan North and Erica Henderson, et al

February 17, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

What do you get when you try to write a story with no main plotline, and instead focus entirely on a bunch of hardly connected side stories? The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It’s True is what. I should have known I wouldn’t like this much since the first volume annoyed me, but I wanted to see if things got any better; they did not. My biggest problem with Doreen and her companions (now she has several, and I’m not totally sure how all that happened) is that she’s presented more as a parody of the Marvel universe. […]

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2/17/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Cannonball! – I crushed my goal with Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson (writer), Elmo Bondoc (artist), Takeshi Miyazawa (artist)

December 12, 2018 by Dome'Loki 4 Comments

Earlier this year I accidentally read the fourth Ms. Marvel graphic novel before the third, Ms.Marvel: Crushed. Instead of immediately going back and reading number three I went on to read other things. When I was ready to pick it up, I couldn’t find it, the house seemed to have eaten it. About two weeks ago it resurfaced and I decided to save it to complete my cannonball. Sosuke is not as thrilled as I am, since his nap was disturbed to take this photo. Ms. Marvel: Crushed is everything I’ve come to expect from the Ms. Marvel comics. They are […]

12/12/2018 Dome'Loki's CBR10 Review No:52 |

More Human Than Human

X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost

October 14, 2018 by Halbs Leave a Comment

I’ve been on a late oughts X-Force kick, lately. That run has been my comic book introduction to X-23, aka Laura. (If you’ve seen the movie Logan, Laura is the lil’ Wolverine. That was my first encounter with the character.) The Laura character is terrifying and hilarious in X-Force. She’s so efficiently brutal that you always wonder whether she’s a judgment call away from hacking into pieces a character you like. Kind of weird vibe for a teammate. She’s funny in the way Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax is funny – a deadly fish out of water. The character is […]

10/14/2018 Halbs's CBR10 Review No:62 |

I feel a little lost here, but I still like it

World of Wakanda: Issues 1-6 by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey

April 28, 2018 by llp Leave a Comment

Living in a pretty small, remote town, we make certain to take the kids (yeah…the kids) to a comic book store whenever we are in a bigger city. I walked in to one this winter, and all packaged up just like they knew I was coming, there were the six issues in the limited run World of Wakanda comic series. It hit all the right buttons: Black Panther, so hot right now! Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey, interesting feminist thinker and poet, first two black women to write for Marvel! Female artists, I like it! Dora Milaje focused, representation is […]

4/28/2018 llp's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Lunella! No!

Secret Warriors Vol. 1: Secret Empire by Matthew Rosenberg, Javier Garron

November 30, 2017 by emmalita Leave a Comment

My comic book reading is pretty scattershot. I have read zero of the Secret War series. I heard about it when Captain America was revealed to be a Hydra agent. I have no idea what’s going on in the main series. I did stumble across Secret Warriors, and thought I’d read it since it has a couple of my favorites, Ms. Marvel and Lunella and Devil Dinosaur. Joining them are other Inhumans – Daisy, also known as Quake, Inferno, and Karnak. Secret Empire bounces around in time for each character before, during and after the invasion. A Secret Empire calls for […]

11/30/2017 emmalita's CBR9 Review No:110 |

Thanks, Rainbow. I can always count on you.

Runaways: Pride & Joy and Runaways: Teenage Wasteland by Brian K. Vaughan, Adrian Alphona

August 30, 2017 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

When I heard that Cannonball favorite Rainbow Rowell was joining the Marvel team, I was certainly intrigued. I’m not a huge Marvel fangirl, but I had faith that Rainbow wouldn’t sign on to a project that wasn’t worthy of her. So, at her urging, I went to the library to pick up the first two volumes of the original Runaways, written by the always great Brian K. Vaughan. And, of course, Rainbow was right. I was immediately taken in and wanted more.* Here’s a quick overview of what happens in the first two volumes: A group of six kids are […]

8/30/2017 scootsa1000's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Nope, not for me.

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

August 22, 2017 by narfna 2 Comments

I wanted to like this, so so much. But I had so many problems with it, and ultimately didn’t enjoy myself while reading. Like a lot of people (non-comics nerds mostly), I was introduced to Black Panther and T’Challa in Captain America: Civil War. His appearance in that movie was great (one of the highlights of an already fun movie), and it left me excited for his solo movie. And then of course Ta-Nehisi Coates signs up as a writer for the comics, and that’s an unholy soup of curiosity right there. But this did not work for me. Firstly, […]

8/22/2017 narfna's CBR9 Review No:55 |

SNIKT

Wolverine by Chris Claremont, Frank Miller

June 30, 2017 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This is one of the comics that makes me love comics. Wolverine is a collection of Wolverine’s first solo series. It was written and illustrated by comic titans Chris Claremont (Days of Future Past) and Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil). The writing is terse and largely comprised of Wolverine’s stream of thought. The art is simple yet moody. As Claremont explains in the introduction, the book elevates Wolverine from an animalistic berserker to a complete and compelling character. While I love Hugh Jackman as much as the next nerd, this Wolverine would be more likely played by someone […]

6/30/2017 Halbs's CBR9 Review No:20 |

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