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“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

“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!?”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“This memoir of suddenly losing a kid is hard to rate. It doesn’t feel good to give it stars or not stars because it’s hard

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“This is pretty good, but could’ve used more Thing. Why doesn’t every comic have more Thing in it? Is it because artists hate drawing all

“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

“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.

“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

“This is positively begging to be a 14-hour Mike Flanagan show.”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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:

“This is my new go-to comedy book to buy for kids. It’s hilarious. Clyde spray paints “FART” on a tree. 10/10.”

“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

“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

“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

“This is like every review I do on Goodreads:Some good ideas, at least twice as long as it needs to be.”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“This is considered a sort of sci-fi classic, and it’s easy to see why. The science fiction elements are just about perfect, lots of new

“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

“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

“This is aight, but it’s definitely the modern definition of “strong female protagonist,” which is “lady who can punch good.” “

“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

“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

“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

“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

“This is a rough one, even of the rough one I expected.I was so baffled I made a video review. Enjoy“

“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

“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.

“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

“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

“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

“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