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“I mean, look. There’s a very simple test here. Are you interested in the dark comedy of a guy stabbing himself with a knife made

“I mean, it’s hard to love a story about a virus that’s defeated by willpower. That’s…that’s not a thing. You can’t get rid of rabies

“I mean, it’s fine, but the thing about Happy is that it’s got a premise, tough-as-nails Frank Miller character sees a floating unicorn, and that’s

“I mean, it never occurred to Batman, World’s Greatest Detective, that he might be framed for murder at some point? It kind of fits with

“I mean, duh, of course. Lisa’s poems always have this connection to nature and living things, this way of making those things we all share

“I mean, damn, this one was okay, but I was already in Damian overload before this one. I don’t know what it is with this

“I mean, c’mon, gangsters stealing a kid’s wheelchair? That seems a little cartoonishly evil, no? If you need to prove someone is evil, you could

“I maintain that the only Deadpool product that works is the movie. The comics just never seem to hit the right notes. I have to

“I made it through to the K’s before stopping. Here’s the thing: when the book is telling you about tattoos, it’s pretty interesting. The secret

“I made a mistake: When I read Fantastic Four: Full Circle, I was kind of meh about it, and then I saw most of the

“I made a mistake with this series. A dire mistake. I took too long to read the last volume, fell out of love with the

“I made a box for my own ashes. No, I’m not dying. Just in case some of you were worried this might be the last

“I maaaaaay have had a good deal of Nyquil in my system before I read this, and that may have affected my enjoyment. I have

“I loved this one, and oof, it’s going to be divisive. What I liked about the last few books David Sedaris has written is that

“I loved this book when I was younger, and it’s still great now. It’s weird, it’s genuinely funny, and Judd Winick couldn’t be nicer. I

“I love some of Tom King’s other stuff, but this one didn’t cut it. TOO opaque for my liking. Also, I’m not really sure what

“I love Marc Maron. But I just need more than his set in text. There were expansions, but not enough. I saw him live two

“I love East of West, and also it feels like each trade has about 15 minutes of reading in it, and everything is ABOUT to

“I look forward to the spinoff fantasy series about these three young ladies fighting actual giants. I don’t know, what do you want from me?

“I listened to this on audiobook with my mom while we drove to Santa Fe. Believe me, just about anything would be entertaining in that

“I liked this, AND it feels like we’ll eventually have every moment of Vader’s life filled in by some entertainment product. When we see how

“I liked this one better than the first. WAY less Peter Parker stuff, way more Spidey. I’ve always said that comics are really more like

“I liked this metaphor for heartbreak and all that, and I liked where it ultimately goes, but… Near the beginning, our main character uncovers a

“I liked this better when it was In The Mouth of Madness, and not just because I was loaded when I watched that movie. But

“I liked the first half of this quite a bit. Then…it kind of turns into advice on how to do a wedding. With drawings. Good

“I liked that we got some background in this one. And it was delivered in a nice way. I also liked fake Stan Lee. That

“I like Zahler’s stuff, and especially his ideas. I don’t know that I love his drawings, and some of his dialogue reads like, well, the

“I like to make fun of heist stories because…I don’t know, they’re always slick and cool. I can prove I like to make fun of

“I like this shit. So impractical! How come we didn’t learn more impractical science in school? You can learn so many scientific ideas by applying

“I like this Moon Knight. Crazy man who does punching really good. That’s the tagline.”

“I like this Fantastic Four: mostly self-contained, weird cosmic shit going on. Alicia Masters being blind and into the Thing brings up a question for

“I like this concept, Garth Ennis playing out the small aspects of WWII by inventing characters to take us through them. It’s like having a

“I like these Ito books where it’s one story through the whole thing. Also, this one has a for-real ending! I mean, it’s not always

“I like the whole X-Files vibe going here, but I have to say, I think this book totally blows its own biggest surprise way too

“I like the return of Rickert, a character we haven’t seen for a minute. Okay, in old-timey times, if you were a blacksmith, your kid

“I like the idea of a Tomie, a Frankenstein of sorts that’s maybe not quite evil, just sort of petty and bitchy. Like if you

“I like that this is going an Event Horizon-y direction. I’ll take it! That movie is like one of the most divisive movies out there.

“I like that things can always get worse for Guts. Most stories, when an interdimensional butthole shat out thousands of horrific monsters that ate everyone

“I like that things are still pretty tense right up to the end here.”

“I like it. But honestly, it’s like a lot of other things and not quite as good. It’s like Sweet Tooth, but it doesn’t tug

“I like elves being little bastards. That’s some good fun.”

“I learned a thing! There’s a great joke in this book about Jughead’s name, and it got me thinking. “What is a jug, anyway?” I

“I know some people found this to be a coasting to a stop, but I liked it. I’m not real into message-y shit about class

“I know Rick Remender wrote this as an expression of his troubled childhood and teenage years, so I hate to shit on it. It’s just

“I know I’m a bad comic book fan, but I’m weak when it comes to following artists. I just…I don’t know. I feel like some

“I knocked off a star because goddamn it, this book does the thing. The thing where we’ve got journal pages and stuff like that, but

“I just want to put this here because it needs to be somewhere in case I don’t get around to it: I really want to

“I just spent about 20 minutes figuring out how caissons work. People had some HUGE balls back in the day. For anyone who hasn’t read

“I just read this one for the very first time today at the request/brute forcing of a co-worker. So Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel,

“I just read another review that says, in essence, that the crucial line that connects this story to the Hitchhiker’s Guide universe was cut out

“I just learned that Buckaroos are a specific type of cowboy, mostly people from Oregon. It’s apparently a morphing of the Spanish word for cowboy,

“I just downgraded this from 3 stars to 2. Because apparently I read this about 7 years ago, and I have ZERO memory of it.

“I just couldn’t follow this one. I mean, I sorta could, sorta couldn’t. I think maybe there’s more happening here than I got, but maybe

“I have two big problems with this book. Well, four problems. Two are big problems, two are small problems. And if this were Hot Dudes

“I have to upgrade this one from Worst Idea Ever to Mildly Okay Idea That Runs Out of Steam Really Quickly. The Punisher dies, then

“I have some controversial thoughts about this as a librarian and lover of weird shit: What the fuck, why, when I read this on Kindle,

“I have one of two problems with the work of George Romero. Either I don’t care much for his work in print, OR I don’t

“I have no idea what can be said about this book that hasn’t been said already. So I’ll just use this as a completely nonsensical

“I have an announcement: I think I may be a villain. This is because in this book, as in almost all of fiction, the doggo

“I have advice for crime writers. Show us the scene where a character is awkwardly trying to learn how to use a gun. Not like

“I have a weird problem with these Bat Family characters. Okay, here’s the deal. Batwoman appears to be her own person, have her own operation,

“I have a Kindle, and one of the features I use a lot is the % finished. This book doesn’t really get into the titular

“I have a hard time reviewing poetry. Every collection, it’ll have a few you love, a few you hate, and a bunch you won’t remember.

“I had to re-read volume 1 because it’s been like 40 years since I read it. It was totally worth it, although THEN I was

“I had such high hopes. I ALWAYS have such high hopes for Deadpool. And somehow it never quite hits for me. I’d love to hear

“I had fun with it. TOTALLY not for everyone. I think if you weren’t a 90’s member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society, this probably

“I had a teacher in college who was in love with Dracula and Lugosi’s version of him. This dude was so pumped when our class

“I had a really great poetry teacher in school. Funny. Smart. Great bullshit detector. Seriously, almost frighteningly attuned to suss out if you were full

“I had a LONG star debate on this one. Maybe it should be 4. Because it IS, after all, a Fantastic Four book. Then I

“I had a hard time telling the faces apart at times. Which makes a spy thriller thing pretty weird. I like the art and the

“I guess most people who read a Jim Woodring book know what they’re getting into. I’d read a couple of his short comics before, but

“I guess I didn’t read the description well enough. This is mostly a book about Almossawi’s publishing process. In somewhat excruciating detail. I thought I

“I got off track on this one, which I regret. How awesome. I’m told that the Netflix show is pretty great. I haven’t seen it

“I got about 200 pages in and just wasn’t feeling the momentum. I was super excited to read this one after hearing Lipsyte on Marc

“I get very nervous when the library world is all atwitter over a graphic novel. 9 times out of 10, it’s something that has a

“I finally finished it! Cue hip-hop horn. Cue parade. Commence shredding up ticker tape and throwing it from the windows of skyscrapers! No time to

“I feel two ways about this book because there are two books here. There is the book by Brock Wilbur, which is more focused on

“I feel like it’s almost cheating to review these all as separate books. It’s one long story, so it’s not like by this point, volume

“I feel like everyone thinks they’re good at mazes. Is there anyone who thinks they’re bad at mazes? I can hardly navigate the island of

“I feel like every time the Kingpin shows up, he’s gotta demonstrate that he can kick ass even though he’s a fatso. It’s like, we

“I feel like an idiot because for the last few weeks I’ve been walking around saying, “This Stephen King character can really spin a yarn!”

“I expected this one to be weirder. You see it on lists of unusual books, books with atypical structures like House of Leaves or something,

“I enjoyed the hell out of this. Which I guess could be a sorta problem. Here’s the thing. There’s some pretty weird, sexist stuff in

“I ended up kinda loving it! Penny is a 20-30-something lady who is sort of a scumbag, but in that charming way where she’s not

“I dug this, but the third act is all one big musical number, and reading those on a page is pretty tedious. I totally get

“I dug it. On the one hand, not a perfect book. But I wanted to know what happened, and I wanted to keep reading, and

“I don’t think I remembered how ugly these books were. I think it came about because that was [Abe Simpson voice] the style at the

“I don’t take a lot of time to talk about the art in comics. What can I say, I’m a words guy. But I just

“I don’t REALLY want to talk about the rape theme that runs through this series, but I’m going to. Here, buried in volume 27. For

“I don’t really know how to rate this. Not because it’s a bad book. It’s a really good book. It feels weird to rate it.

“I don’t normally explain a rating. It’s kind of a pet peeve of mine. “This is really a 3.5”. Great. In this case, an explanation

“I don’t mind saying it brought a tear to my eye. The story of the lonely kid who grew up to be Stan Lee. Pretty

“I don’t know, seemed like there were about 15 different characters, but none that were all that interesting. The book felt a little disjointed to

“I don’t know why I’ve never reviewed this, but I just re-read it. It’s so good. It is. If you don’t read comics, read this

“I don’t know what to do with this review, so I’ll do the mature thing, play that Marry/Fuck/Kill game. Brain, heart, and I guess Stomach

“I don’t know what it was about this book, but I just did not give two fucks. Okay, I kinda know what it was. I’m

“I don’t know what it says about me that I walked into this volume sort of ready to hate Walking Dead. As I have for

“I don’t know if I’ve ever read a Korean comic before. This one is weird.There’s a lot of “We ate this, we went here, we

“I don’t know if I expected the ending to be awesome, but you know what? It was pretty good. A lot of these stories seem

“I don’t know if a series has ever been published in so many different configurations. Book II part 4, Volume 3, Book 2.7. Damn, if