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“Wait…what? That’s my two-word (and four punctuation marks) review of Multiversity. Grant Morrison definitely doesn’t care whether readers follow the thread sometimes. And that’s cool.

“Wait, wait, wait. This is ALSO a time travel thing! Sort of! What the fuck, Marvel!? I thought we talked about time travel. I guess

“Vol 0 is definitely a favorite where this one was less favorite of favorites. But Howard’s reproductive partner clone (it’s complicated) is adorable, and there’s

“Vikings V. Aliens. I just read this: “Viking teeth were often subject to a great deal of wear, which is largely attributed to their diet.

“Very short, but really good expression of friend love. Platonic love? I don’t know. I can’t really describe it, and besides, the author does it

“Very Ennis. If you like Ennis, then read The Boys. If you don’t like Ennis, then don’t read The Boys. I’d maybe call this one

“Very cute, this is a good one for kids if you like that shit from the 80’s where kids movies were just a little bit

“Very cute, and I don’t mean that in a condescending way. Like when I see someone park real shitty and have to come up with

“VARGR is not some kind of code for VAGINA. It sort of looked like it to me. VARGR. VAGR. VAG. You get where I’m going

“Valiant Comics are back. That’s a thing. If you’d have asked me a few years ago which comics would never come back, I would have

“Ut oh, are we turning back towards the earlier volumes in a way Pete isn’t all about…?”

“UPDATE: Came back to this one about 2 years later with the intent of reading parts 2 and 3. It’s pretty solid. Last time, I

“Update: Finished! My project of reading all of ASM stalled out for a bit, but I’m back. With a vengeance! In pog form! All the

“UPDATE 2023: I just read a “Dark Knight by Miller reading order” thing online, and here was the suggested order: Dark Knight ILast CrusadeDK IIDKIII

“Unfortunately, I read this one and didn’t realize it’s the second in the series, so I was terribly lost.Who is the mysterious Prostetto? What is

“Um…okay, Silver Surfer sees, like, a light and comes to Earth where there’s this family who just moved from NYC, and then this dead guy

“Um, wow. Aquaman, typical SWM, is fair, but *hello* equity much?! Giving everyone an equal portion of fish to eat is a prime example of

“Um, no. That’s not exactly a stunning review, but it summarizes how I felt. The first third of the book is narrated by a really

“Um, it’s fine, but you get this half of the story, which just ends. It’s like a bad sexual outing where, somehow, it’s all over

“Uh, book club book. That’s the explanation for why. It’s pretty much what you’d expect, a whodunit with an ending that’s fairly interesting, although you

“Two factors in my favor here. 1. This book is by ANSON Montgomery, not R.A. (raging alcoholic, I assume). Maybe Anson is more reasonable. 2.

“Two books here, Bee Vixens and…damn it…oh, space prison for ladies. Jesus, I couldn’t even remember it, and I read it last night. Bee Vixens:Somewhat

“Turns out this is a series to be read in a shorter time than the decades or whatever it took for it to come out.

“Turns out that my hurry isn’t so much what’s prevented me from learning astrophyiscs up to now. But hurry does make for a good excuse

“Truth time: I read volumes 4-12 in a weekend, and here’s the weird part: I’ll score each one a 3, but overall it’s a 4.

“Trans gangs, deadly viruses, and Vietnam flashbacks. Vertical Run has it all. But as we’ve learned from Universal Soldier 2 and Jane Eeyre alike, guns

“Totally gorgeous book where the story starts maybe just a tad too late. What I mean is, I plowed through about 25 pages before it

“Totally fun. Totally nails the character. What can I say, I’m a Slott fan. A total Slott. Slottface. I’m Slotty as hell. I’m a slut

“Totally fine, but I’m glad I read it after finishing the whole series instead of in the middle. He’s a compelling character for sure, but

“Totally awesome. A great collection of monsters, folklore, and tales. Japanese monsters are pretty badass. There’s a monster that’s a giant skeleton made of other

“Total horseshit. The worst food I’ve ever made, seriously. I was one of the people that I think this book is intended for, a poor

“Took me less than the time of a medium-length Metallica song to get shot down by alien spacecraft. Again, I didn’t even get far enough

“Tom King took what he did with Vision and brought it over to DC. And it’s pretty great. It’s just such a different book. It’s

“To the titular question: I hate this question. I feel like it’s some weird proof that cats don’t actually love people or something, and I

“To be honest, the plot here left me very, very confused. I’m not famous for interpreting things very well, and this is especially true when,

“Time Travel. How many times have I ranted about this? Let’s do it. For real. And never again. Time travel, for the most part, is

“Time travel, so that’s not great, but at least it’s almost complete nonsense until the end, when they try to have it make sense. Look,

“Thus ends Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing. There were times when it was a bit of a slog. When things got a little cosmic

“Thor with long blonde hair and beautiful features? Count me out! I came here to read a comic about a beautiful, strong, MAN with gorgeous

“This, I liked! And this is coming from someone who is currently reading a book about fucking UFO’s because I’m so tired of reading anything

“This would be a great book to read if you had an idea for a comic and didn’t really have the skills. Scott McCloud isn’t

“This wasn’t really a 5, but poetry always gets a 5 from me. Because fuck it. This is my place. I make the call. That’s

“This was totally fine, but it was definitely The Sisters Brothers junior. “

“This was some BAD dialog. Real bad.It’s that clever, hard-boiled detective shit. “The dame walked out of my wet dreams and into the dry heat

“This was pretty good, pretty fun setup, seems like there’s stuff happening, more than meets the (stabbed out) eye. A good start.”

“This was pretty good, although there’s something that didn’t quite click for me.It’s kind of GA’s Dark Knight Returns, or Frankl Miller’s Daredevil, but green

“This was okay, but I’m not sure how this connects to Airheads, the film about three dopes who break into a radio station in order

“This was my third crack at this one. Every time I thought, “Huh. Why didn’t I finish this last time?” And there was always a

“This was lazy, even for him. It’s like 4 pages long, and all that happens is a dude thinks he’s the new Noah, then his

“This was kinda just a bunch of…stuff? Nothing but stuff? There was a lot of stuff, but it was almost completely disconnected stuff? It’s like…maybe

“This was fun, although I think my thirst for Big Trouble in Little China was satisfied by Big Trouble in Little China. But when Eric

“This was confusing as hell, and I figured out why. Here is the suggested reading order from an excellent Age of Apocalypse web site (http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/time/showquestion.asp?faq=13&fldAuto=58):

“This was another book read for genre-expanding. The basics of the plot: There’s this great sadness, almost like a disease, spreading over the world and

“This was a really mixed experience. The stories were good. Fast-paced, interesting stuff. Very rural, good for fans of Cormac McCarthy or Robert Olmstead. The

“This was a nice ending to the series, although the parts that strayed a little were off the mark. I had to write a review

“This was a great volume for people who aren’t all that familiar with Spider-Man, and it’s got plenty of stuff that bigtime fans will love,

“This was a 2-star book, but half the page count is the sketchbook, which goes through the whole thing again page-by-page. I guess that’d be

“This volume was a little less fun for me, it kind of digs deeper into mysteries without getting us anywhere near the resolution of others,

“This volume ends on such a high note! Okay, a quick rundown for those who are total noobs. Once upon a time there was this

“This volume contains one of my least favorite all-time comic book stories. In it, Lex Luthor basically uses the 1980’s version of big data, feeding

“This volume contains all the things that normally drive me nuts in a comic. Cloning, time travel, alternate dimensions. And you know what? It’s fucking

“This unbelievable book is so, so good. If you like Hunter S. Thompson or maybe Kerouac, but if you’ve got low tolerance for how some

“This title ripped off Burger King’s slogan and made it old-timey. Nice try, asshole.”

“This thing weighs 5.08 pounds.After reading it, I am the strongest nerd alive.”

“This story veered dangerously close to a couple kid book tropes that I really hate. But I’m happy to report that both were avoided! Kid

“This story started awesome and then turned weird. And not the good kind of weird with like, I don’t know, aliens that look like huge

“This story is fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to marry someone who notices an imperfection as slight as a pea under 40 mattresses? Does

“This sorta plays out the classic “Flight or Invisibility” hypothetical. Would you rather be able to fly or turn invisible? Keeping in mind that these

“This shit is so fun, but hampered because I didn’t realize, until I got back into this, that I must’ve read these issues no less

“This series just continues to impress me. It’s so different from just about anything else out there. It’s got the ability to go between wild

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“This really isn’t a bad book. It just suffers from the fact that the main character is so painfully awkward. It’s hard to read because

“This really fits in with an accidental trilogy: The AbyssLeviathanDeepstar Six Funny story, me and my girlfriend watched about half of Leviathan before we realized

“This probably wouldn’t be a 4-star deal, BUT there’s a big extra included in the form of Avenging Spider-Man #11 by Zeb Wells and illustrated

“This one’s mostly about chasing after a book that we don’t really know what it does. Gotta be honest, I work in a library and

“This one’s got its charms, but at the end of the day, wizards doing magic, not like a ton of new shit brought to the

“This one’s for the hardcore Lisa Hanawalt fans. The Hanawalfans. The Hannys. Which I’m not. Her art’s good, it’s interesting, it’s super weird, but man,

“This one’s cute and all, but I think it’s meant to be an “all-ages” book. Which means it’s appropriate for kids and adults can read

“This one’s been living on the ol’ kindle for a bit. I started it at some point, then left it because, well, I thought it

“This one’s a total winner. It’s got that thing in Japanese comics where you’ve got the ultraviolent mixed with the tenderness between characters. I’ve never

“This one’s a darker, twistier Goon book, but it works. I think this would be a huge book if it were published on its own,

“This one’s like a very funny, maybe tween-ish novel about a disastrous attempt to make a zombie movie. Me and my friends tried to make

“This one, more than the first volume, felt like a storyboard for a movie. Which could be a good thing. But it definitely felt like

“This one was good, but I liked the Encyclopedia of Early Earth better. I think because it was wackier. This is kind of a retelling

“This one takes on the X-Men concept. It might be a little lost on the current readers of comics who don’t remember the 90’s when

“This one started a little slower than Agent Cold Beer’s last assignment. It almost felt like, you know in a TV show like Modern Family

“This one settles into a more typical comic book style and story, but that’s cool, I’m not opposed to things being comic book-y. Still think

“This one picks up and is quite a bit stronger than the last volume, although good golly, DC could not stop with their big crossover

“This one lost me a bit because I don’t really like magic in fantasy stories. It’s one of the things that usually keeps me away

“This one lands hard in “not for me, but great for someone else.” I was pumped to see Mike Drucker, who’s hilarious, was writing a

“This one is more fun than the first. Goofier maybe, but just better, and there are more jokes. Really, that’s how a good sequel should

“This one is just too disjointed. Little snippets from Dick’s life. It would seem he had some mental health issues, although a lot of that

“This one is great!It’s a little bit gimmicky, especially at the outset, with the book resembling a multiple choice test, but the gimmick pretty quickly

“This one is going off the movie formula, which is as follows: Buncha heroes get together Buncha heroes fight…something. Some kind of faceless CG hoard

“This one is a divisive one, but for me, it’s a 5-er. Soichi is like…like a manga Addams Family, except Soichi is the only person

“This one has some fun female characters in it, which is nice for a change. That sounds awful. But I guess…okay, it’s confusing. I’m READY

“This one has been on the ol’ to-read list since, like…the 90’s? If you were following comics in the 90’s, you know about Battle Chasers.

“This one has a BIG moment in it. Big and stabby.”

“This one gets pretty weird again. Which I’m all about.”

“This one gets points for being a brilliant reinvention of a fairly silly character. Something that really shouldn’t be any good. This book is a