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“Why does every bad guy power his super ray or his mega bomb or his evil plan with diamonds or some shit such? How is

“Why do scientists always be like, “Bro, I just figured it’d be tight to like study this weird biomass that might be super dangerous, but

“Why do I feel like I’ve read a lot of stories about the Mole Man lately? Is it just bad luck or is he everywhere

“Why do golden retrievers always show up in these disaster movies and make it? I’m sorry, but if Martians were death-raying everything that moves, I

“Why are there like 5 titles running under the New Avengers title? This shit is really confusing. I put a volume on hold at the

“Whoo! Okay, this is the story of America’s first marathon, but it reads more like a script for an episode of Wacky Races. Someone vomits

“Whoa-ho. There is SO MUCH DIALOGUE in this book that there’s barely room for art in the panels. The dialogue is pretty alright. It just…it

“WHO was responsible for going forward with “Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite?” KKK? Really? I mean, no part of me was like, “This is a

“While this is the penultimate book, it’s also one of the best. Shit hits the fan, and it hits hard.”

“While there were some interesting insights into the development of Shovel Knight, and while Craddock’s writing is clear and to-the-point, this just isn’t a terribly

“While not bad or evil like a lot of folks might say, I suppose this one missed the mark for me in a couple ways.

“Whew, done!Just about four months after starting, I can stick a fork in this one. And then return it to the library and pretend to

“Where to start with this… I suppose “Why?” is the big question. Why read this? Well, one reason was because a favorite author, Chuck Klosterman,

“Where are the real life robot hands? They’re all over in fiction, it totally makes sense that we’d have robot hands by now. So where

“Whenever there’s a crime spree with 2 or more criminals in fiction, one of them is a rapey moron who blows everything by being a

“When you read experimental, literary shit, there’s a definite fear of looking stupid because you didn’t get it. This is a fear I have confronted

“When you get The Unfortunates, what you get is a box. Inside the box, 28 pamphlets.One is an introduction, one is labeled First, another is

“When you first pick this one up, it’s sort of hard to look at. There is SO MUCH ART on every page. It’s a little

“When we visited my grandma, she had one VHS we watched all the time: Stand By Me. It was like a ritual. Every time we

“When we left you last time, your hero (me) was pondering whether the slow burn first volume of this book would be justified by the

“When stories were “Submitted for approval by the Midnight Society,” did they ever not get approval? I don’t remember any episodes like that, but it’d

“When I was a kid, my mom looked at a Hellboy comic I had, and she was like, “Oh, so is this some kind of

“When I think about the Silver Surfer, I think it’s gotta be one of the most profoundly stupid ideas that works somehow. Like Teenage Mutant

“When I come home, I greet my cat by saying “Herro.” Because when she wails in the night, as cats seem to do, that’s what

“When Desdemona gets assigned to work the hottest New York magazine ever right out of journalism school, she didn’t count on one thing: Othello. Othello

“When are we going to have to say, “Okay, if Magneto was a child during the Holocaust, he’s going to be pretty goddamn old?” This

“When “Fantasia” is unleashed, it’s the total opposite of when Fantasia was released in theaters by Disney and Pete was bored out of his mind.

“What’s to say? The author is great, and he’s written a lot of great stuff. This one just didn’t do much for me. It was

“What’s to say? If you’re waiting for David Sedaris to fuck up and just not be entertaining, prepare to be disappointed. If you’ve never read

“What’s the deal with Bruce Wayne and girlfriends? I mean, I get it. Who isn’t into hot babes? But my question is, Why do people

“What’s sort of amazing to me about Dragon Ball is that the wishes people intend to make are SO small scale. Wishes for a perfect

“What’s so special about Seinfeld? What about that show makes it so different? “No hugging, no learning.” This was the rule, the mantra of Seinfeld

“What’s really great about Dreadstar is that there’s progression in the series. Things change, characters change, the world changes, people die and don’t come back.

“What’s left to say about it? Great. It’s great, you guys. The last 50 pages or so were probably my favorite. There are a few

“What’s here is okay, but shit, there’s not a whole lot of it. It feels like if they’d compressed a little bit of this, made

“What’s funny about this book is that when I picked it up from the library, it had a little blue sticker with a magnifying glass

“What’s confusing about this book is that it’s not awesome, but it’s STILL one of the better Supergirl stories, so that makes it relatively awesome

“What’s weird about this book is that I can’t really imagine anyone reading it without being much interested in fighting. What’s REALLY weird about THAT

“What’s sort of weird is the end of the book does that recent comics thing of having a serious essay in there, but this book

“What? I read a book that isn’t a comic book? Has the world gone mad? Well, sometimes I like to get away from my regular,

“What the hell is with people in semi-apocalyptic scenarios putting prisoners into a gladitorial arena? This has to be the favorite activity of warlord jerks

“What the hell is going on with horror set in the 80’s? Stranger Things, IT, Super8 (technically 1979, and maybe sci-fi, but whatever, sue me.

“What really makes Steve Rogers Captain America? Some might say that it’s not the crazy steroid stuff coursing through his veins, but his spirit. I

“What makes this a good sci-fi is that people are trying to do something ethically questionable, but nobody is evil. It’s too easy when there’s

“What is Catwoman’s deal? Seriously. She goes back and forth, living the fast life with stolen diamonds or whatever, but then always feels regretful when

“What I liked is that Doctor Strange, Stevie, uses axes and swords and shit and isn’t just waving his hands around all the time. Also,

“What I don’t love about this is that EVERYONE is a quipster. Even old man with evil-sounding German name is making wisecracks (by himself, alone,

“What I don’t get so much is what the fuck are people are thinking when they call Midnighter “fruity” and the like. Why? Why would

“What I appreciate about this book is that it’s a personal travelogue, it’s got info in it, but it’s more centered around Steve and his

“What happens when a really stupid detective goes back in time and ends up on the Titanic? He makes a $100,000 bet that the ship

“What can I say? If you’re gonna read this, read as much of it as possible in as short a time span as possible. Or

“What can I say? I thought the Darth Vader and Son book was a little better, and this was kind of more of the same

“What an interesting book. I think what would prevent most people from reading this is probably some version of a sentiment that can be summed

“What a weird and difficult task. Imagine you’re a comic book artist, and someone is all, “Make a comic ABOUT a well-known artist.” How the

“What a tough read. It’s an interesting bit of history, seeing how Japanese forces were living and fighting. And this is a great example of

“What a total piece of shit.Popeye’s, if you’re listening, I’ll do a for-hire romance novel based on…well, Popeye? Is that where your chicken restaurants get

“What a loaded question. If there’s one thing to take away from this book, it’s that you should never ask this one. Was she pretty?

“What a great, big pile of shit! Let’s be clear, I fully expected a great, big pile of shit. I read it for that specific

“What a great example of comic book plotting. The impossible happens. Something that I DON’T want to happen happens. And the story works. It’s great.

“What a fantastic book. I’m so disappointed in myself that I’m only getting to King in my mid-30’s, but I’m making up for lost time.

“What a delight! Although I feel bad for poor Bigfoot.You know what I don’t like? That new cryptids, like Slenderman, have a known creator. That’s

“welllllll…I think a lot of discussion about this book regards the authenticity of its depictions. I’m of the opinion that, as that goes, you can

“Well.I have mixed feelings.The book is a fun read, no doubt. If you like Petey Wheatstraw, this is about as close as a book is

“Well…sometimes I like how Sandman works, and sometimes it’s like, everything is dreams, so anything can happen or not happen, and that doesn’t leave a

“Well…I gave up. I bought the audio for 30-some dollars and figured it might be a great listen. But I find myself dreading listening. Part

“Well…here’s the thing, the writing is absolutely wonderful. It’s really great stuff. But the story is harder to follow than my non-signaling, weaving uncle is

“Well. There’s a guy named Shoemaker. And there’s a report. And, as the parenthesis indicate, there are space aliens. So I guess I can’t complain

“Well, this should be popular… I think it’s fair to point out that I got about 20% of the way through this book before I

“Well, this project, begun in October 2020, has been completed! Er, well, I finished one step in my 2020 project. Ah, October 2020. What a

“Well, this kind of breaks away from my normal rule against reading about super-small subcultures. You know, those books about professional Scrabble players or guys

“Well, this is really 2022 on Goodreads, but I can’t seem to locate that no matter how I search. I found it yesterday, but GR

“Well, this is more about the philosophy of cartooning than it is a How to Draw book, so it didn’t exactly fit into my project.

“Well, this ended EXACTLY where I wish it would have started, with Tony Stark suiting up and heading into space. Of course. Goddamn it. Why

“Well, there are a couple different things I’ve read about this book. 1. Reviews along the lines of “Nobody writes through the mind of a

“Well, the tree grows very slowly and with exhaustive detail. Couldn’t get through this one. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I could have. And I

“Well, the parts that were good were GREAT. And the parts that weren’t as good were super not as good. Wow. With reviews like that,

“Well, the first story was great! It was more World War Z than Night of the Living Dead. Or, perhaps more accurately, Land of the

“Well, probably the worst joke book ever.“What’s Yellow and Lights Up?” is not a joke when the answer is “An electric peanut.” Another favorite?“What’s Yellow

“Well, pretty great. It’s like…how do I describe something as pulpy, but in a 90’s way? If you can read this with an appreciation for

“Well, my Kirkmania for this year, after last year’s final reckoning with Walking Dead, was Invincible, and it was another solid ride. This is a

“Well, I’ve seen some…interesting takes on this. I think mine has some to do with creativity. I do think we have traded curiosity and exploration

“Well, I’ve got a new obsession. Charles Hinton has a good collection of books on Kindle. Including The Billion Dollar Lottery, War of the Dinosaurs,

“Well, it’s a pretty damn thorough book about Castlevania. I don’t know what to say about it other than it delivers exactly what it promises.

“Well, if you like trippy, life of the mind shit, this is probably your jam. I do not like trippy, life of the mind shit.

“Well, I managed to clear a room of four women talking about this. Twice. Two DIFFERENT sets of women. So that’s a sign regarding how

“Well, I hated it. It’s kind of hard to say that because of the book’s subject matter. It makes me feel like I’m saying the

“Well, I finished, and overall, this is a 5-star series for me. It’s weirdly not life-changing or super heavy or anything like that, but it’s

“Well, honesty time. I’m reading this series in one of those huge tomes that has 5 books slapped together into one slab. A slapslab, if

“Well, after just talking about how people put too much emphasis on endings, I have to say the ending on this one let me down

“Well shit.I thought I had this all figured out between a few library services and I could read a pretty good arc. But it turns

“Well holy shit. If you like bleak books and minimalist writing, hit this one. As a challenge to my fellow readers: A minimalist book that

“Weirder than expected.It’s an interesting artifact, to be sure. I didn’t read the whole thing. Part way through I decided that I was enjoying skimming

“Weird. Not a spoiler because it’s how the volume begins, but what you should know is that Doctor Octopus has put his mind into the

“Weird. Kinda sloppy. I would like to share something I learned in a creative writing class. One time I wrote this story. It was all

“Weird. But good weird. If you don’t have a weird artsy friend, Lisa Hanawalt would make a good fill-in via her books. But if you

“Wearing a skin suit and walking among the dead kind of makes sense. It’s gross, but…it probably prevents you from having to kill people most

“We get Slimer, more Gozer, and Marshmallow Man? I mean, this is like Star Wars 7, a lot of the same. I never even saw

“We all know how I feel about half stars (for anyone who’s new here: silly and unnecessary). I just saw a rating for this book

“We all have those books that sit on a nightstand, half-finished for weeks, right? Months? Maybe a year? *cough* Well, at some point you have

“Wally West is kind of an asshole. So is this other superhero guy. I like that. I like these comics where superheroes are assholes. Not