“Berserk, Vol. 6 (Berserk, #6)”
“This one has a BIG moment in it. Big and stabby.”
“Berserk, Vol. 17”
“This one gets pretty weird again. Which I’m all about.”
“Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing”
“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
“Daredevil: Back in Black, Vol. 3: Dark Art”
“This one gets an extra star because it’s gory as hell. When did the comics code stop keeping me safe from shit like this!?”
“Superman: Eradication”
“This one gets a little rough because readers will know what’s happening almost immediately, but it takes Superman the entire volume to put it all
“Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift”
“This one gets a little post-apocalypse-y, which is not to my taste.Actually, that’s wrong, I LOVE post-apocalypse stuff, but I think I’m worn out on
“Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio”
“This one does a good job showing that…a lot of these things happen more because of incompetence than evil. The people who fired shots that
“Dear Laura”
“This one didn’t connect as hard for me as it has for a lot of others. Three reasons: One, the writing style didn’t work for
“Apeshit”
“This one definitely goes in the “shocking for the sake of shock” category. That might sometimes be a valid critique of a book, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut this
“Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 5”
“This one definitely brings Spider-Man into the more complete Ultimate Universe. We’ve got some team-up characters going here. Cloak and Dagger are kinda interesting, but
“Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons”
“This mostly felt like a series of “Dungeons and Dragons is a thing, and referencing things about it equals funny” kind of stuff. I don’t
“Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir”
“This memoir of suddenly losing a kid is hard to rate. It doesnât feel good to give it stars or not stars because itâs hard
“Berserk, Vol. 8 (Berserk, #8)”
“This may officially be as far as I’ve ever gotten in a manga series.It’s probably fortunate in some ways that the manga boom happened JUST
“Tank Girl: Solid State Tank Girl”
“This just felt super unfinished. I got where it was all going, and it was fine, but when you’re flying a dick-shaped miniaturized ship through
“The Old Guard, vol. 1: Opening Fire”
“This is…fine? I won’t spoil the overall premise, but let’s just say it’s pretty lean. You sort of expect a story to spring from this
“Morning Glories, Vol. 7: Honors”
“This is where I leave you, Morning Glories, and this review serves as a reminder to my future self: You might want to give this
“The Flash by Mark Waid, Book Three”
“This is when the series picks up…speed for me. My favorite Flash thing from this is when Wally needs a 4-digit code to open a
“X-Men: Grand Design – X-Tinction”
“This is when some X-Men shit got more serious and less wacky. I mean, they were time traveling and shit, and they were fighting an
“Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1”
“This is weird, but I don’t think its weirdness is meant to be its appeal?The art is really good, but I don’t know if the
“The Department of Truth, Vol 2: The City Upon a Hill”
“This is way better than a one-star book, unfortunately it’s company policy over here to one-star comics that have long handwritten journals that have an
“Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead”
“This is totally awesome. Remember when it wasn’t boring for Batman to just be this invincible badass? Remember how great those days were? It’s okay
“Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher”
“This is totally asinine. In the formula of children’s books that goes “So-and-So Was a Such-And-Such That Wanted to This and That” this book really
“The Stringbags”
“This is the official sign that people who grew up with comics are now entering Old Man Phase in which we become obsessed with World
“Coyote Doggirl”
“This is the most coherent Lisa Hanawalt book, for sure, with a beginning, middle and end. I don’t know if that’s an endorsement or not.
“The Nest”
“This is the first read for my new book club: The Peter Derk Book Club! I looked around at celebrity book clubs, and you know
“Christine”
“This is the first King I’ve read that I would put below excellent. You’d think it’s because it’s about a haunted car. But that has
“Irredeemable, Vol. 10”
“This is the end of the Irredeemable series. There’s always a lot of pressure on an ending to a long series. There’s almost no way
“Batman: Kings of Fear”
“This is the book for all you fuckers who think you’re so clever when you say, “Batman would do better being a billionaire philanthropist than
“Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Novelization (Encyclopocalypse Movie Tie-In Series)”
“This is the best, funniest book of 2023 by miles. I took all the other books I was set to read in 2023, put them
“The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance”
“This is the best book you can read about disease, and it was the best thing I read in library school. Seriously, all of library
“HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations”
“This is the best board/card game on the planet, hands-down. These are tough hypothetical questions, and as the author puts it, the point really isn’t
“Reset”
“This is such a weird book because an amazing thing is introduced, but it’s introduced to a very Peter Bagge character, so it’s sort of
“Hellboy Omnibus, Volume 2: Strange Places”
“This is such a great series that is worth reading straight through. Why hasn’t this made a great movie yet? The three (live action) Hellboy
“The New Church Ladies: The Extremely Uptight World of “Social Justice””
“This is something I read. It’s…interesting. While Jim Goad makes some good points, he also makes a lot of points I disagree with. Reading this
“The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists”
“This is probably the most popular volume as L abandons H (I’ll leave it at that in an attempt to not spoil anything). This is
“100 Bullets, Vol. 3: Hang Up on the Hang Low”
“This is probably one of the better volumes, although it really has nothing to do with the premise of the series, it seems. Let me
“Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadow”
“This is pretty good, but couldâve used more Thing. Why doesnât every comic have more Thing in it? Is it because artists hate drawing all
“The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist”
“This is pretty good, and I don’t always like embarrassing stories because they remind me of MY OWN embarrassing stories, which I do just fine
“Hellboy in Hell, Vol. 1: The Descent”
“This is pretty cool. It’s like a slo-mo Hellboy with fewer colors. Which sounds awful, but I guess you’ve gotta be there. “There” being hell.
“Hard Boiled”
“This is pretty amazing stuff. The story itself takes a backseat to the art. Like, the WAY backseat. If you’re in one of those vans
“Castle Full of Blackbirds”
“This is positively begging to be a 14-hour Mike Flanagan show.”
“The Gnarly Book: a Collection of the Saturday Morning Gnarly Trombone Columns, Found in the Greeley Tribune”
“This is one of two books my mom got me for my birthday, books she thrifted because thrifting is kind of her thing. Both were
“Fencing the Sky”
“This is one of those perfect books that makes it difficult to pick up anything else afterwards. Though it’s a novel, this is a nice
“The Holy Ghost: A Spirited Comic”
“This is one of those “totally my fault” things: didn’t realize this was a spiritually-based comic before I read it, so while it’s not thoroughly
“Mage, Vol. 1: The Hero Discovered, Book One Part 1”
“This is one I happened across by accident in the 90’s. Oh shit, here comes Old Man Pete. In the day, comics were kinda hard
“Ice Cream Man, Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles”
“This is not the first evil ice cream man from image comics: Although this older one didn’t make it… This is why you can’t read
“Night of the Mannequins”
“This is my second shot at SGJ, and it’s another swing and a miss for me. This book reads like that “Psychopath Test.” This one:
“Clyde”
“This is my new go-to comedy book to buy for kids. It’s hilarious. Clyde spray paints “FART” on a tree. 10/10.”
“DC vs. Vampires, Vol. 1”
“This is much better than it has any business being, and I think it’s proof that comics are a wonderfully elastic medium that can handle
“Scalped: The Deluxe Edition Book Two”
“This is looking like my tap out point. I keep feeling like this book is the late 2000’s version of comics that tried to be
“Paul is Dead”
“This is like your stoner friend, who is a gifted storyteller, explain to you an idea he has for a graphic novel where Paul really
“Sci-Fu (Sci-Fu, #1)”
“This is like every review I do on Goodreads:Some good ideas, at least twice as long as it needs to be.”
“Child Star”
“This is great. I want to address a review that says this is a whitewashing of Gary Coleman’s story: This book is a definite fictional
“Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity”
“This is great. If you like David Lynch, or if you’re a junkie for that stuff where you read about a creative person’s habits and
“The Amazing Screw-on Head and Other Curious Objects”
“This is great, madcap Mignola shit. Especially the story about a snake who’s mad because his friend dies. That was some good shit.I feel sadder
“Kitaro”
“This is great stuff. Imagine early X-Files where they were doing monster of the week, but instead of sexy FBI agents you have a ghost/monster/mild
“Columbine”
“This is good reading, especially if you’re under the impression that:+School shootings are perpetrated by loner, loser types+Really, that there’s a “type” that can be
“Saga, Volume 2”
“This is good comics. The art, the story, the dialogue. It’s all working. It’s a little frustrating to read in such small chunks. It goes
“Mr. Higgins Comes Home”
“This is fun, but short as hell. Get it from the library. Don’t pay $10 for it. It’s just too short for that. But there’s
“Trial of the Clone: An Interactive Adventure!”
“This is fun as hell. Think about a Choose Your Own Adventure crossed with an easy-to-follow D&D sorta thing. Oh, and the morality nonsense of
“Steeple”
“This is fine, but a lot of stuff happens at first, then nothing, then a big switcheroo at the very end. So it sorta feels
“Dune (Dune, #1)”
“THIS is Dune: “After assessing the repairs and operable equipment, we’ve worked out a first estimate on operating costs. It’s based naturally on a depreciated
“The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds’ End”
“This is definitely where Sandman gets way up its own ass. Like colonoscopy deep in there. A bunch of people gather at a magical tavern
“Enderâs Game (Ender’s Saga, #1)”
“This is considered a sort of sci-fi classic, and itâs easy to see why. The science fiction elements are just about perfect, lots of new
“Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms Classics, Volume 1”
“This is an extremely cheesy yet very enjoyable version of D&D. You know what’s weird about D&D? I mean, other than everything? It seems like
“My Parents Open Carry”
“This is an awful book. And that has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. Well, okay. The book is terrible, and I’d like to have
“Copperhead, Vol. 1: A New Sheriff in Town”
“This is aight, but it’s definitely the modern definition of “strong female protagonist,” which is “lady who can punch good.” “
“I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel”
“This is a wander-y one, but it does have a coherent narrative. I’ve been reading a lot of comics this weekend, so pardon the oddly
“Paying for It”
“This is a true, comic book story of a man who eschewed romantic relationships in favor of fulfilling his needs for love through friends and
“Us”
“This is a terrifying and very sad book. A husband and wife are in bed together one night when the husband wakes up to his
“Wallace the Brave”
“This is a solid comic strip, like Calvin and Hobbes on the coast. Do I think Wallace will be bootlegged and pissing all over GM
“Jurassic War”
“This is a rough one, even of the rough one I expected.I was so baffled I made a video review. Enjoy“
“Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D”
“This is a really good, brief primer on what D&D is and how it came about. It’s definitely more a biography of the game than
“MIND MGMT, Volume Two: The Futurist”
“This is a really entertaining book. I made a bunch of food in the crock pot recently. I promise this relates back to this book.
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
“This is a real good news/bad news situation. The good news is that I thoroughly agreed with a woman at the book club where this
“Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality”
“This is a pretty good read, a nice look at an industry that I don’t really know anything about. Kind of like Waiter Rant, but
“The Way of the Hive: A Honey Bee’s Story”
“This is a pretty good book that does a better job explaining the circle of life than that silly song does. But it’s also kind
“The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture”
“This is a pretty damn good modern memoir. Great for fans of Chuck Klosterman who are looking for something a little more personal, maybe. The
“Nostril Fucked by the Micropenis”
“This is a lot more romantic than I thought. Which is to say, it’s a little romantic. Could have done without the part where the
“Form of a Question”
“This is a lot more about an unusual boy trying to fit in, trapped in a world he never made, if you will, than it
“My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #1)”
“This is a like a grand slam of comics memoirs dealing with heavy stuff: race, sexuality, the Holocaust, and cancer, all in one. I think
“The Gigantic Beard that Was Evil”
“This is a hugely popular book right now. And I can see why. Thereâs lots to like here. Itâs a modern sort of fable, which
“How To Walk Across America (And Not Be an A**hole)”
“This is a guidebook for the preparation and execution of an across-America walk. Which is REALLY FUCKING FAR, by the way. I was just reading
“The Realm, Volume 1”
“This is a great, fun book. You’ll blow through it quick, and you’ll be excited to see what’s coming up. I don’t want to tell
“Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1: The Ronin (Usagi Yojimbo, #1)”
“This is a great series that people haven’t read enough. When it comes to the canon lists, this one doesn’t make it too often, and
“Sexcastle”
“This is a great sendup up 80âs action flicks and doesnât feature a strip club or bdsm dungeon or anything like that, which the title
“Batman: The Caped Crusader, Vol. 1”
“This is a great era of Batman comics that I don’t think I could’ve appreciated until I was an old man. My brother turned officially
“So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”
“This is a great book. And an important one. This book has completely changed how I feel about social media and the way in which
“How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back”
“This is a great book for anyone, and it works for just about any artistic endeavor. It’s great for writers, visual artists, and of course,
“Little Heaven”
“This is a good un. It’s a little slow getting started. Probably owing to the structure, which takes place in one decade for quite a
“Veins”
“This is a dual review, Veins by Drew, which I read on the iPad and is the first eBook I read on an eReader from
“Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir”
“This is a damn solid read. If you’re a person who uses the word “meandering” as a way of criticizing a book, then skip this
“Where We Going, Daddy? Life with Two Sons Unlike Any Other”
“This is a book that deserves more attention than itâs getting. Itâs a quick read, no more than an afternoon of time.Before going any further,
“The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)”
“This is a book I read for a book club that I help out with at a local middle school. I just felt that I
“Secret Wars”
“This is a 4 for me, but it probably won’t be for you. FOUR you? Get it!? Also the Fantastic Four is in this book.
“Work”
“This held my interest on an airplane, and I could have been watching Gymkata (the movie that combines the thrill of gymnastics with the kill
“Winchester Mystery House (Torque Books) (Scariest Places on Earth)”
“This has to be one of my top destinations. It just looks really weird and cool, and for whatever reason I feel like it’s going
“Superman: Exile and Other Stories Omnibus”
“This has some really solid stuff in it. And some other stuff.I figured out the Gangbuster situation WAY before I needed to, and I’m NOT
“Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 3”
“This has some good shit in it, but also has some shitty shit because it crosses over with some big stupid event that I don’t
“The Anatomy of Castlevania”
“This has some cool stuff in it, mostly the stuff about the first Castlevania. But the layout is a little weird, and some of the