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“I’m not going to star rate this one because it’s self-published by a teenager, and as fun as it would be for me to make

“I’m not going to lie, this is the only David Foster Wallace thing I’ve ever finished. I loaned Infinite Jest to my sister before I’d

“I’m not going to give a JK book featuring his son and cat anything less than 5 stars, so cram it with walnuts, ugly.”

“I’m not going to finish this one, but it has nothing to do with the book. The books is pretty decent, bordering on really good

“I’m not even going to talk about this because what’s left to say? But I am going to complain about some dum-dum. Some dum-dum commented

“I’m not even fucking around when I say this volume contains a story about a military contractor who built a sub-par submarine that presents a

“I’m not always the biggest fan of Chip Kidd’s book covers. Sometimes awesome, but sometimes… Well, it turns out that sometimes the stories behind the

“I’m not a fan of Thursdays. What I didn’t know, because while I have pants, they’re not fancy, Thursdays are “tricksy” puzzles oftentimes. So you

“I’m not a Deadpool fan. Let’s start with that. The first movie was pretty fun, the second movie was bullshit, and the comics are almost

“I’m liking this a lot, but the art…the art is really good, but sometimes in the combat sections, I don’t really know what’s going on.

“I’m learning that I just don’t dig Matt Fraction’s work the way other people do. Hawkeye didn’t hit home for me, and Sex Criminals isn’t

“I’m just not that into Puck. I don’t know, the cuteness of the character doesn’t match up with the tone of the book, for me,

“I’m just not loving this as much as everyone else. I LIKE it, but I don’t LOVE it. Which is why I’ll start part one

“I’m just gonna rate the first issue and review the series, spoiler-free, in hopes that you’ll pick this up when it becomes available in trade.

“I’m hoping that if I leave no star rating it won’t affect the overall rating of this book. Honestly, it’s my preference not to give

“I’m guessing this’d be extremely progressive for 1995, but in 2020/1, it’s not so much a big deal, so it loses some punch. The art

“I’m gonna stick with it, but so far it didn’t blow my skirt up or anything. I just tried to look up the origin of

“I’m gonna put the star rating at the end, so you can read this if you’re interested in finding out what I thought in star

“I’m gonna give you my foolproof tidying plan. Ready? Move. Seriously, put everything you own into boxes, put those boxes into a vehicle, and move

“I’m gonna be brave from now on when it comes to comics, and I’m willing to say it: I didn’t get it. Too cosmic or

“I’m going to use this review to defend Return of the Jedi, my favorite Star Wars when I was a kid: 1. The OpeningThe entire

“I’m going to tell a truth here. My friend and I did a library program. As part of it, we made a bet. Whoever did

“I’m going to spare everyone the rough draft of this that led to a point and just get to the point. For the love of

“I’m going to say this as a fan of comics and someone who respects what the artists and writers do: I don’t get the Bros.

“I’m going to say a few words that you won’t hear very often in reviews of comics. Especially comics written by comic book royalty like

“I’m going to let anyone interested in on a little secret. I just interviewed Gabe Durham, series editor for Boss Fight Books. The interview will

“I’m going to give you one guess about which instrument Al Capone played in the prison band…..Wrong! It was banjo. You learn something new every

“I’m going to dress as the Goon in January. Sort of. I’m going to this party. It’s 1920’s dress. Now, when I say that, I

“I’m giving this one a low review because I want to warn people off the series. It starts with a promising premise, a promise, if

“I’m feeling like a horrible person these days. Near the end of this book, I was thinking, “Christ, another memoir about a kid growing up

“I’m embarking on this journey once again. The journey to finish something started by Cartoon Network when I was a teen and they showed Dragonball

“I’m done pretending I understand what Grant Morrison is doing most of the time. When Grant Morrison is awesome, he’s awesome. The rest of the

“I’m convinced there’s a really interesting story in here, but I got really bogged down in who owned which rights to which versions of Tetris.

“I’m confused. Not so much by the book but more as to why there are so many reviews of the book. Not to mention one

“I’m catching up to see if I can make my goal, 4200, by the end of the year. Which ends today. So these Giant Days

“I’m catching up to see if I can make my goal, 4200 books, by the end of the year. Which ends today. So these Giant

“I’m bumping this up to a 4-star because, well, it’s better than three. I just read an article by someone who said she doesn’t do

“I’m anti-meh. So can I say…smeh? The art was pretty great. When we were in the alien hospital, that was awesome. Very creative, very interesting,

“I’m an idiot. Because I listened to an audiobook version of a book with a lot of charts and visuals. Not my finest moment. Not

“I’m a secret runner. Maybe not “secret, secret,” but it’s not something I like to talk about much. Because I think it’s boring. Not just

“I’m a man and I read this book. We’ll just get this out of the way right off. Taking a page from Fey’s own book

“I’m a big Zdarsky fan. Maybe mostly of his mayoral run. It seems like his stuff doesn’t work for everyone, and I think it’s because

“I’ll warn you before we get into spoilers. Which we will. If you’re not going to read this one because “OMG, they made Cap a

“I’ll read absolutely anything that Michael Kimball puts out, so when I found out he had a book about how to write, I was pretty

“I’ll keep going with this series, I’ve heard so many good things that there must be more to it, but holy shit, this hero is

“I’ll just make a BPRD related confession: I was explaining to my partner what a homonculus was, which I knew about because of Roger the

“I’ll be honest, it’s too long between volumes for me to keep track of what the fuck is going on in this series. It’s like

“If you’ve never spent the weekend plowing through an entire series of comics, I highly recommend you give it a shot. It’s a pretty great

“If you’ve listened to Adam Carolla on the radio, you’ve probably heard about 90% of these stories before in some form or another. I guess

“If you’re putting together a super team, you need a fish man. Take note. You might THINK you don’t, you might think your Aquamen are

“If you’re looking for a primer on early X-Men history, this is the way to go. Piskor sort of remakes old X-Men stories with new

“If you’re looking for a pretty thorough cataloging of NES games, this is a great resource. Most games have at least a brief couple of

“If you’re looking for a person who likes crazy shit, like a giant robot being piloted by a hookerbot through a desert wasteland where punk

“If you’re looking for a name for your doom metal band, flip through some Berserk. Or just take the title, I guess.”

“If you’re looking for a comic to makes you feel like a one-thousand year old man who doesn’t give a hot damn about chat apps

“If you’re looking for a book that’s the most Bechdel-passing book of all time, this is it. I don’t think there are ANY male characters

“If you’re interested, the audiobook is read by Joe Mantegna, who also plays Fat Tony on the Simpsons. And so, because there is a mafia

“If you’re 6 volumes in, you don’t need a review, right? You’re in at this point? So what should I put here instead? I guess

“If you want to talk like a villain, I have some handy hints for you. 1. Never call someone an “asshole.”If you use a word

“If you want a book that’s like an intellectual version of “Dance Moms,” this is your bag. I’m putting this on my NPR-y bookshelf. That’s

“If you read the description of this book and didn’t feel you got exactly what you were expecting, plus a little bit more, that’s on

“If you read nothing else, read “Ghostwriter.” That’s a classic Palahniuk tale that doesn’t get its due. Also, there’s an entire story about Reese Witherspoon’s

“If you like the sort of book that depicts a true “character” from a rural setting, this one’s for you. This one’s kinda like a

“If you haven’t read the first 3 volumes, why on Earth are you reading this review? To see if you’d like it? It has to

“If you haven’t already, read Karen’s review. There’s a Chuck Tingle cover gallery: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1271420426?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1 Look, this shit’s weird. But my favorite part was when a

“If you consider yourself a fan of feminism/equality, I think this one will leave you questioning. And the question you’ll be asking is, “Why didn’t

“If you challenged someone to come up with the most disgusting thing you could think of, and if you then wrote a novella with that

“If we could extract the weird, acid-trip stuff from Grant Morrison and just hang on to the great ideas and character exploration, I would be

“If the idea is to parody a certain subculture, then Simon Hanselmann nailed it hard. It gets better as it goes, and towards the end

“If someone wrote a manga about me, it’d be called: Volume 1 Man Because I like the volume 1’s, but then I’m usually all set.

“If one learned history from comics, one would have no choice but to assume that boy rape was the most rampant threat to the American

“If I’d taken on this challenge: Drank all the beer in the fridge almost immediately. Woke up and the fridge was filled with bags of

“If I were to foster a cat right now, I’d name it Doctor Robot, for sure. It’d be kind of fun to name your kid

“If I were a smarter reader, I’d have looked into this and known that I should have read more of Zdarsky’s Daredevil FIRST before getting

“If I was the kind of person who let others defecate in my home, this is what I’d keep in the bathroom for them. I’d

“If I may, I’d like to share the origin of the Bad Breath Vampire: Once upon a time there was an average garbage man. Average

“If I had to come up with a theme as a serial killer?I’d be the SBD killer, and I’d go after anyone with modified exhaust

“If I had to choose between reading this entire book or eating it…I’d ask whether I can prepare the pages in a way of my

“If I found out I owned an apartment with an old man living his golden years peacefully inside, I’d kick his ass out in a

“If HP Lovecraft did a 100 Bullets story, here we go. Which sounds sort of awesome, and I thought it would be, but hey, life

“If House was a little more fun, if he could do stuff like full body transplants, you’d have Black Jack. I’m always game for a

“I’d like to nominate this for great first lines of all time: “I never should have married a woman named Decapitron.” Truer words are rarely

“I’ve long been a fan of Portland, and made it no secret that I’d very much like to live there. The first time I went

“I’m not what you’d call a foodie. I do like to cook, and I’m working on getting better at it, but at the same time

“I’m gonna go with my normal policy that applies to someone’s story of personal trauma and leave a star rating off this one because it’s

“I’m giving this series another shot because I’m 8 years mature-er and have eight more years of vocabulary to draw upon, hence “mature-er.” A lot

“I’m convinced this story came from going home to a small town for Thanksgiving. Your friends are different, your dad is weird and emotional, and

“I’m all in on the return of crusty biker Lobo and his resurgence. In the anals (I know that may strike you as being incorrectly

“I’m a sucker for lord of the flies nonsense, which this is, so I was set up to love this one. Put a bunch of

“I…think they could’ve pulled this off, but it should’ve been a little later in the series. This is like the “22 Short Stories About Springfield”

“I…loved this.Now, I know that I would’ve hated this when I was 15. I liked BatGod at that time, the dark, brooding superhero who could

“I wrote an entire column about how this book belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of How To Write books, even if you never write a

“I wrote a WHOLE-ASS column about this series over at LitReactor: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-strange-forgotten-marvel-anti-hero-foolkiller“

“I wrote a whole column about Charles Addams, and I think all but one of the images comes from this book. Truly an underrated master

“I would trade 10% of my intelligence to be able to pull off a cowboy hat and have no one question it or talk about

“I would review this book the way I’d review the boobs of this old lady I used to mow the lawn for who came running

“I would read a book about Joel Cohen losing at anything. Hey, losing isn’t just about races and board games anymore! There are lots of

“I wish this series had started with the previous volume. I know it’s a little cliche to start a story at the beginning, but volumes

“I wish I could do art and story separately.The art is really good. I like how the characters look like real people, all a little

“I wish everyone would read this before the upcoming election. Because my god, this thing reads like a preventative guide for most, and a tactics