Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Kiss (Budd & Abbot), Marry (Ivy), K*ll (everyone else)

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Volume 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour (#1-6) by Tee Franklin, Max Sarin and various

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These gals ain’t going to have a Harlequin Romance written about them. ‘Cause the clown princess Harley Quinn and that green-thumbed (who knows how to use it) Poison Ivy are anything but a cozy romance love affair.   We start off the collected comics of the Dynamic Duo of Mayhem, Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Volume 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour (#1-6) by Tee Franklin, Max Sarin (Illustrator) and others, with a car chase out of Gotham. It is a “between the series” moment where Ivy […]

This is royaly F’d up and down and sideways

V for Vendetta by Alan Morre, David Lloyd and DC Comics

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There is always a book that draws me in; wanting me to read it; teasing me; laughing at me because it knows I will never take the leap out of my comfort zone and plunge in. And V for Vendetta was one of those books. My excuses for not reading? Too long, too dark, too old school, too popular, what a dull and boring (and a little off putting) cover. My excuse for finally picking it up to read? Nothing more than there was a […]

Never meet your heroes

My Buddy, Killer Croc by Sara Farizan

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The focus of having the character of Killer Croc (Waylon Jones) as the “hero” in the Sara Farizan and Nicoletta Baldari graphic novel, My Buddy, Killer Croc, is a familiar but good twist. However, the one thing I was wondering is if the reader will understand that Killer Croc, no matter how “good or nice” he seems, is not a “good guy” due to how he is mostly good to the main character (or seems to be on the surface). There is an interesting nod to […]

Second time is a charm

Nimona by N.D Stevenson

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I first read Nimona by N.D Stevenson in 2019 (but my version had their dead name). My main takeaway from this recent read was how the theme itself has not changed, but our perceptions of it might have. I know mine did. I didn’t even know what a dead name was four years ago. It would never have occurred to me that it is harmful to misgender or dead-name someone. In those few years, a lot has happened, and I hope I have grown past […]

This was fun. Exhilarating. This was my chaos.

Petty (Cape & Cowl 1) by S.A. Sommers

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The pharmacy was perfect, and I was only there for the cash. And maybe a new foundation. Eyeliner. Shampoo. Oh, and maybe some chocolate. The manager nodded at one of the employees, who sprinted off to the cosmetics area. “Maybelline!” I called. “Warm ivory!” “Rich alabaster would be better!” she yelled back. ― S.A. Sommers, Petty ************ Farrier folded his arms across his massive chest and leaned against the desk. “We have all these visible heroes. Flying around, running around, leaping over shit. Saving the […]

How is the only her first book, and how long do I have to wait for her second one?

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

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I moved this to the top of my TBR list after reading 1000Oyster’s review, with an assist from Emmalita (thank you!). I agree totally with 1000Oyster’s “I want to recommend it to everyone I know.” In fact, I sent it home with my dad to read on the plane after his Christmas visit, and he also loved it. Plans for world domination and mass destruction take a lot of work, but who does that work? What if there were temp agencies for supervillain henchpeople and […]



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