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“My dudes with kids: get these books to read to your kids. They’re weird and hilarious. They’re a good length. This is the shit.”

“My boy Chip is at it again! When will he stop!? Afterbirth was a pretty dope book. It’s about like an Uber driver who ends

“Muslim, teenage, female superhero who uses some accurate jargon? Cool. Dig it. The dialogue is pretty good too. There’s a nice balance of culture where

“Much gorier than expected, but it was totally earned.”

“Mr. Strode? It’s been a nice ride. I’d just like to highlight the art of Tradd Moore throughout this series. Soooooo good. So different, so

“Mostly non-obnoxious time travel story. As time travel stories go, this is about as good as it gets. By which I mean, it didn’t infuriate

“Mostly Enjoyable, Though I Understood Very Little of It You might be wondering why that’s capitalized. It’s because that’s my Douglas-Adams-y title for my memoir.”

“Most fascinating part, and perhaps most fun, it turns out that the State Supreme Court of Oregon ruled that lap dances are constitutionally-protected expressions of

“More dream stuff, which works because it’s pretty close to the reality of the book, and because the artwork is, as always, unmatched. I tried

“Mixed bag. The book itself is great, and the photos are good. But. The captions for the photos are all fucked up. Half the time

“Minus one star because I was at a meeting where everyone had to say what they were reading, and I had to spit this whole

“Mike Sacks is a funny guy, and if you’re into stuff like McSweeney’s online whatever-the-hell-they-call-it, you’ll enjoy this book. The book does suffer a bit

“Michael Perry has a way of taking whatever’s going on in his life and relating it to another, smaller event in such a way that

“Michael Kimball is great. Let’s just get that out of the way. He uses a really strange device in this book. The book is broken

“Mermaids are jerks. I looked up some mermaid legends. Turns out that different cultures have lots of different versions of these creatures. Greece: This lady

“Me every time:Alright, Pete, these are short comics, so you GOTTA spread them out over a few days, maybe even a week. Otherwise, the baseline

“Me and my brosef wrote this little ebook about vidjagames. Check it out! I give it four stars because his portions are like 5 and

“Maybe sci-fi fans will dig this more than I did. I liked Zahler’s western stuff better. I think sci-fi is a little boring to me

“Maybe halfway through I started thinking, “Damn, I’m not enjoying this.” But…I wanted to see it through because I thought perhaps there was a twist

“Maybe drinking our own poo isn’t a great idea. At the very least, poo should be a “sometimes” drink, sort of how Cookie Monster says

“Maybe a little like a Jim Thompson kinda thing? I don’t know, I’m not cut out for a life of crime, I think. I get

“Matt Kindt is pretty cool. Grass Kings seems to be about a little town that has successfully seceded from the United States(?) I’m not totally

“Mary Roach is very funny, as usual, HOWEVER, where her other books are about showing us how weird and unexpected certain sectors of the world

“Marvel Zombies, but with DC! Okay, it makes a little more sense because there’s some Darkseid explanation nonsense, but we don’t really care about that,

“March 2009. That’s when I added this book to my to-read list on Goodreads. Before today, it was the oldest thing on my Goodreads to-read

“Manic pixie dream girl, manic gothic dream girl, and depressed grunge dream girl return! I think the manic pixie dream girl got a bad rap.

“Man, that dog really DOES hate zombies. This is pretty great. Another Kyle Starks book that goes along the lines of “What if I could

“Man, people gotta stop making deals with the devil. Seriously, does that shit EVER work out? And people, this is a very simple equation. If

“Man, I tore through this book. What a great story. There are a handful of really fascinating stories that are coming out of the video

“Magoo is back! And this time, it’s bayside. Daredevil decides to head on over to the west coast. Apparently, he lost his license to practice

“Loved it. I see a couple reviews on here bellyaching about proofing and editing and so on, and I always like to make a distinction

“Loved it. World War Z with robots. I don’t use this word a lot, but it was very creative. You might think, Screw this, I’ve

“Love this book. It is, however a decade old by now, so some of the stuff has aged and passed on. The Willamette Weekly did

“Love me some Chippy, but this volume is SO SHORT! It’s as thick as about two issues glued together, maybe while sitting under my fat

“Lots of controversy on this one, eh? The problem most people seem to be having is that Harris takes what are certainly some liberties with

“Look, look, look: this is a 2-star book FOR ME, because that’s how I use Goodreads. I don’t really rate things as the way I

“Look, I guess the witch thing just doesn’t speak to me. I did design a cool sticker: Hot Girl Summer, Salem Mas. 1693 How’s THAT

“Look through the reviews, you’ll see the word “cutesy” pop up a lot. And they’re not wrong. If you’ve got a reader who’s into Moongirl

“Longer story, but easy to follow. Good for sci-fi fans. Nice buddy/friendship story as well. Hidden narrative about going back to school.”

“Lon Cheney seems like he was an interesting character, and I sort of liked the single-page outlines of some of the movies he was in,

“LOL, okay, we get it. Daredevil’s sidekick is Blindspot, who is an undocumented immigrant, so he can’t get a good job or healthcare or whatever.

“Logan is an old man. Where once he was a savage beast, now he uses his wisdom to defeat his enemies. “Y’know, this shopping center

“Lobo! The return of Lobo! The good one, the guy who is an asshole space biker. Not the Twilight-ed version of Lobo from The New

“Lobo comics never made sense. And they were the best when they didn’t try to. For the uninitiated, Lobo was a DC comics character created

“Listened to on audio, read by the author. The guy’s done enough podcasting that it works pretty well. If you’re not really familiar with Kevin

“Liked this. It’s a throwback to something I didn’t realize I was missing, the comics where a story begins and ends within those few pages.

“Like Reverse Chucky meets Mad Max. But, like, for kids!That’s about the best I can do, here. Not very many decapitations, but I suppose the

“Like most people, I saw the movie adaptation of this long, long ago, and like most (common-sense-possessing) people, I love it. So ridiculous, so good.

“Like Kevin Smith’s Bionic Man and The Star Wars, Green Hornet is a comic-book-itized version of a movie that was never made. It’s a great

“Like just about every compilation, one awesome story, some filler, and I don’t even remember the rest. Swamp Thing is just super cool, man. So

“Let’s use this as a teachable moment. I’m pretty sure that’s what Obama was talking about when he used that phrase. I’m pretty sure he

“Let’s talk the positives that I’m not going to argue against. Cool to have a likable, funny female protagonist. Who is also black. Points awarded.

“Let’s talk about Scarlet’s outfit for a sec. People will critique outfits like hers (boobstrap as a top, bottom bits that are only covered if

“Let’s talk about Negan and The Governor. I think the most realistic slam on the book is that Negan is Governor Part 2, and I

“Let’s start with the art: I quite liked it, although there was a distinct lack of background, which is a choice several artists are making

“Let’s start here: I think it’s pretty safe to ignore reviews concerned about the misogyny of the writing. I, as much as anyone, understand the

“Let’s separate this into two categories. 1. Digital ComicsI bought this digitally and read it on my phone. Which was a horrible idea and a

“Let me start with this: I’m prepared to admit that I might be wrong. This might be a really good book. A lot of people

“Let me start with something that kind of blew my mind: All these Nintendo books were a Seth Godin joint. Yeah, THAT Seth Godin. The

“Let me start by saying I love some stuff Benjamin Percy has written. I DO think that there’s a definite trend, which is that prose

“Let me just put it this way: I read this book all in one go. So there’s zero chance I missed anything or forgot details

“Let it be known: This is my grown-up rating. I’m above the intended age for this, below the intended maturity, so this one missed it

“Lemme ‘splain what made old comics great and bonkers. Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2010’s:A bunch of superpeople try and stop a superrobot who decides that

“Lately, I’ve learned that a good way to look at a work is to talk about the “opportunities.” Rather than saying something stinks, where are

“Lately, a lot of my book reviews have started with these “efforts”, let’s call them. Efforts are the things they’ll ask you to do if

“Last week I thought certainly that being at a library conference in Las Vegas, I would be the one to embarrass my colleagues. Maybe it

“Last night I went to do laundry at my apartment and all three washers were filled with fluid. I’m not calling it “liquid.” “Liquids” do

“Kyle Starks always kills it. The best part of this one: the parody of Jigsaw from Saw and when one of his victims points out,

“Kurt Busiek reminds me of this friend I had in high school. Not because he’s chunky and bearded and has glasses…although those descriptors also apply

“Krang is my favorite character from the old cartoons because, well, he’s really bitchy. He’s always complaining about not having his robot body, then he

“Klosterman has written some damn good stuff, and his last few have been awesome. Eating the Dinosaur was strong, and his novel, Downtown Owl, surprised

“Kinda lame, but kinda awesome. This is definitely from the period before Batgod, the time when Batman became not the ultimate man, not a masked

“Kinda hard to follow all this cosmic-ness. But I bump it up a star because, let’s face it, Silver Surfer being overly cosmic is the

“Kind of like one of those heist movies where the story comes together. I don’t like those movies very much. They can be fun. The

“Kind of an 80’s screwball comedy. But. It’s the but where I fall out of love a little. The 80’s nostalgia trip has ended for

“Kind of a slow story about a weird political alliance thing, but it’s aight. I DO hate that our main character is named Forever. Because

“Kind of a bland outing except for Starfox! Who is a vindictive jerk who really seems to annoy the shit out of a lot of

“Kids would love this, I reckon. I think I was probably in the worst generation for Star Wars fandom. I was too young to see

“Kicking off the new year right! You might be wondering about the capitalization choices in this book’s title. Don’t fret, it’s not a cheap, accidental

“Kentaro Miura draws excellent pirate scurvy teeth. Take notes, makers of pirate movies.”

“Just yesterday I declared myself The Goodreads I Didn’t Get It Guy. Which is convenient because I read this not 12 hours later. “

“Just the beginning of the story here, what we’re basically talking about is space diplomacy. Which is sort of like regular diplomacy except that it

“Just not really up my alley. Gotta say, Lincoln had a shit life. Or maybe everyone did back then. At one point he’s got a

“Just listened to the COMPLETE audiobook. Finally, finally it exists. I also happened on a very strange and heartbreaking story about this book. The story

“Just like the Tattoo Dictionary I read earlier this year, this book was a big letdown. For the same reason! I picked this up to

“Just fuckin’ read it. I am totally making a bold claim: Swartzwelder is the English language’s ONLY true comedy novelist. Other people write funny books,

“Just finished this volume. The interesting thing is that Hulk and Bruce Banner are separated. And it sort of turns out that maybe Bruce Banner

“Just finished this one, which is the last book I had left from season one of Boss Fight Books. I thought what might be useful

“Just circling back to confirm: book is better than the show by A LOT. it’s much weirder and moves much faster. This is the ticket.

“Junji Ito really is good at thinking up horrible ways to die. One of my favorites (not from this collection): You approach a stone wall,

“Junior Ito.”

“Junger has a theory regarding why people are not made happy by modern society, and like any theory, it’s got its interesting parts that make

“Jughead. Why read this? Because Chip Zdarsky, that’s why. Jughead wanting to date a giant hamburger? Great. Funny, fun, good readin’. If I had to

“Jonathan Hickman. On the one hand, I like how far his stories go. How different they are. On the other hand, I’d like him to

“Jonah Hex, and this volume, are a great example of what you can do when you’ve got a couple stories to tell and a character

“John Allison’s Bad Machinery is more my jam. I think it’s funnier. It’s a little bit less grounded, maybe, or engages in some wilder, weirder

“Jeff Smith is really awesome. Time travel is not awesome. And while this isn’t time travel, it has all those time travel hallmarks. Just didn’t

“Jeff Smith has a very clean, underrated art style, and he has a knack for making likable characters. I think it’s a shame that Bone

“Japanese horror comics are so fucking weird and I love it. “

“I’ve often wondered about whether or not it’s possible to make a movie that’s all comedy, no real plot or lesson. And now I’ve got