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Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni

Girl Town by Casey Nowak

Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Bad Friends by Ancco

The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish

November 4, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sometimes I go to the library and peruse the new books section. Every so often I try to pick a book I know is coming out or had known was coming but maybe didn’t put any energy into saving or reserving. For new books, more often than not I am looking for the audiobooks coming out on Overdrive or Audio CD and so I don’t generally grab those. Or worse, I do grab them, hold on to them, not even really intending to read to […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: ancco, archie bongiovanni, casey nowak, girl town, grease bats, Kelly Sue DeConnick, pretty deadly, the lie and how we told it, tommi parish

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:611 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: ancco, archie bongiovanni, casey nowak, girl town, grease bats, Kelly Sue DeConnick, pretty deadly, the lie and how we told it, tommi parish ·
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Pretty Confusing, Vol. 1: . . . uh, what?

April 15, 2015 by narfna 2 Comments

So I had to sit on on this one for a while before even committing to a star rating, and even now I’m still not sure about it. I mostly only chose three because it seemed like the most neutral option. This book is hard to think about, hard to digest, and hard to categorize. Ultimately, that’s probably a good thing. Confusing and hard to categorize generally at least means ‘original.’ And Pretty Deadly is certainly original. But it’s also confusing and confounding and hard to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, graphic novels, Kelly Sue DeConnick, magical realism, narfna, pretty deadly, the shrike, westerns

narfna's CBR7 Review No:59 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, graphic novels, Kelly Sue DeConnick, magical realism, narfna, pretty deadly, the shrike, westerns ·
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