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“The trials and challenges of John Lewis are very interesting, and I did feel like there were times we got to know him a bit

“The transition from the characters making lots of mistakes because they’re young and inexperienced to the characters making lots of mistakes because they make bad

“The trade felt a little disjointed. A few different art styles, plus some 6-page stories. Seriously, I think that you’re setting yourself up for a

“The titular visitor had this gizmo that was like a floating, glowing iPhone. And it also blasted people or disintegrated them or something. I’ve been

“The title story was pretty good, but some of the backups were excellent. The title story had a really good mix of supernatural and real

“The thing is, this probably could’ve been wrapped up in half the space, because you don’t really get anywhere with this, it’s just an opening

“The thing I liked most about this book is that it felt like it was coming from a place of understanding, but that expression was

“The stupidest part of me didn’t realize this was “paper girls” like “paperboys,” as in people who deliver newspapers. I kept saying it in my

“The Story:Assassin’s Creed meets 2016 Election fanfic, little steampunk flavor thrown in. It’s kind of messy. I didn’t really understand the different factions at play.

“The story was pretty weak. There were some good pieces of dialogue, but they didn’t feel like they had room to breathe. You’d get these

“The story is a little weird, a lot weird, and I don’t know if it holds together as a dystopia or an anti-religious thing. But

“The stories are so-so, but the illustrations are great as ever. I wrote a whole thing about the replacements: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-18-most-egregious-art-replacements-from-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark There was a section in

“The squirrel really did save practically everybody, minus a few people he hit with a car. Also somehow the finish date went straight from Kindle

“The Sisters Brothers is so perfect and wonderful that I can’t imagine picking up another book for a while. There’s just no point. Okay, it’s

“The setup of this is hilarious. We’ve got Koshchei and Hellboy in a bar in hell, and K. keeps telling Hellboy how he ended up

“The question on everyone’s mind, will Bryan Lee O’Malley’s follow-up to ‘Scott Pilgrim’ be a case of sophomore slump? Short answer, No. Because this is

“The prologue of this book has some truly excellent, fast-paced writing that has a real southern gothic feel, a real sense of darkness beneath the

“The premise of this is a winner. Two comedy writers, off work for the time between seasons, decide to have a race around the world.

“The premise of the book, in a nutshell, or should I say a Koopa Shell!? (kill me) is that compared to games, reality is broken.

“The premise is pretty good. A guy is driving his daughter home from school, and as they head into the neighborhood they come across a

“The premise is good, but this is a butt ugly book. I use the phrase “butt ugly” because it feels very 90’s, which is how

“The premise is good, but that’s pretty much the beginning and end. The difference between a good SNL sketch and a bad one: A bad

“The premise is aight, but I think the book is a little overlong. Is that a Foo Fighters song? Overlong? No, wait, that’s Everlong. Why

“The premise is a good one, but…think of this like a heist movie.In a heist movie, how far in should we have our team assembled

“The premise here is pretty great. The Fantastic Four is about to go off into some other universe or some such nonsense, and FOR ONCE

“The posters are dope, but the essays range from pretty good to Jesus Christ, Get Over Yourself. “Actually, these African artists are a like like

“The parts that I liked, I liked. The parts that were not so great were…not so great. The issue is that there was a really

“The other day I was looking at rejected vanity plate requests for Colorado. They were pretty hilarious, although there are some weird things. For example,

“The other day I was looking at children’s books and thinking, “Hey, that would be a good way to learn some shit that I’m embarrassingly

“The other day I was leaving the gymnasium, and I dropped my water bottle. My instincts were good enough that I managed to catch it

“The only problem is that the jokes come so fast and furious (2 fast, 2 furious even) that you miss some. There’s just too much

“The only flaw in this story, really, is that even if a pizza tree were evil…I’d let it ride. I mean, how evil does a

“The NFL is a tax-exempt organization. Let’s just begin there before we get any deeper into this. Whether or not you would walk into this

“The New Yorker cartoons were aight, but Pete was here for the stories like the squirt gun full of pee. If this book had been

“The most offensive I’ve ever been to myself.”

“The more you learn about your heroes, the worse it is. I know this probably seems like complete non-sequiter in this space, and it almost

“The minute I finished this I was sure what I wanted to say about it. Then another minute went by and I thought, “Wait a

“The mind-blowing thing about this collection, it’s a perfect sample for the whole “everything old is new again” thing that happens in comics. Can we

“The marketing for this is weird, because it feels like it’s playing at “What if SUPERMAN tried to solve society’s ills?” kind of thing, but

“The longest story about the sexbot was pretty good. The rest was kind of a slice-of-life thing, and it felt like none of the stories

“The kills of horror, the thrills of…well, nothing super thrilling. This one was kind of tough to read because you’ve got a guy with multiple

“The irony of people giving this book a low rating, this book being pages 2000-3000 of a series that’s kind of about how people wasted

“The incredible story of Kevin Mitnick, hacker extraordinaire. A truly fascinating book, both in the narrative and the technical details, Mitnick will have a lot

“The illustrations are great. Although it should be noted, the book gets its title because the monsters were all originally drawn on sticky notes, not

“The highs were high, and some of the humor was super excellent. There was a little overuse of a joke type that I feel like

“The hardest part about explaining this book is using the right words. The main character is born…well, this is what I’m talking about. Deformed? Disfigured?

“The great ones are great, the not great ones are a little tedious. I’ve been on this quest to read a bunch of the books

“The Goon is always great. This one had a particularly funny send-up of the gimmicks that company-owned comics will try to sell books, an answer

“The Good: The drawing is really great. The characters have good weight to them, and the figures are realistic (although idealized) without losing their cartoon-y

“The future’s so bright, I gotta wear a jumpsuit. Which, according to this book published in 1972, will allow me to match everyone else in

“The following elements are involved in this book: a severed limb, a diamond heist, a mid-air collision between two airplanes, and a mummified corpse. Wouldn’t

“The Flash only works when you don’t think about it too hard. You can’t really read faster than the speed of light because doesn’t light

“The Flaming Carrot is a man who sat and read 5,000 comics back to back and got brain damage. And became a hero. Of sorts.

“The first volume of this was good, and the storytelling was really interesting and different for comics. But this one just hits it out of

“The first volume in this series started out pretty good. We have the Fantastic Four, minus Human Torch, plus Spider-Man. We also have a bunch

“The first volume feels kind of skippable, but the second picks up the pace and really gets the story going. You know what I really

“The first third was a blast. Then it gets more maudlin. It was still a good book, but it started with such a bang that

“The first page is great. Horrifying, but great. And then I was confused as all fuck for a while. The thing is, the story bounces

“The first half, maybe even two thirds, were lots of fun. Sorta fell apart at the end for me though. It was a big build

“The first half, before the stuff happens, is weird and oddly hard to read. It’s disjointed somehow. Like you’re thrown into the story as it’s

“The first few issues were great. It’s totally different from the movie, tonally. The mask kind of turns people into an ultraviolent cartoon character in

“The first 4 pages might be my all-time favorite Wolverine pages. Well, barring, “Now it’s MY turn!” We get this cold open, and then a

“The Fantastic Four are like the DC universe characters that just by chance are in the Marvel U. By that I mean: I never know

“The end of the series? Already? The hell? The shit? The fuck? Well, it all wraps up nicely. Reality is warped just enough. I wasn’t

“The dumbest-ass thing you could do is read a review of this instead of reading it. It takes like 5 minutes. Figure it out for

“The drawings are nice. Especially the people, which are as interesting as the monsters. I guess I didn’t pay attention, because I didn’t realize that

“The dialogue is still great. That I likes. The art is still a little loosey-goosey. If Kamala is always changing shape, I need a good

“The cover is the best part. Which isn’t an insult because it’s a great cover. Honestly? Eh. The problem is this story is trying to

“The Catholic (Christian? Protestant? Whatever) story didn’t do it for me, but this all still has that Junji Ito flare. The one about the lifeforce

“The Camp Crystal Lake novels came out at the weirdest possible time. This first one, Mother’s Day, came out in 1994, one year after Jason

“The bright colors and fun concept belie the dark tone of the book. There are seriously some characters you feel pretty bad for. Like the

“The Born to Run issues are great, and Wally West is the best Flash as far as I’m concerned. Fight me. Physically fight me! The

“The book is pretty, but even though the story doesn’t seem too complicated, damned if I know what was happening at the end. It’s kind

“The book in which we trade traveling the infinite universe for a return to earth and some Twilight Zone The Movie sex. Bonus points for

“The biggest story with this is that it’s Kentaro Miura’s final volume before his sudden passing. Which is a huge bummer. There was still so

“The biggest change for me in turning 30 is that I’ve become a huge weeping pussy bitch. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to use those

“The big tragedy of this book is that in the preface, and a bit in an afterword, it’s revealed that George Romero was kind of

“The big issue with these issues is that they don’t “go there.” I normally don’t do this, but in this case, I’m advising you skip

“The best writer in the world told me that you can tell an interesting story about a boring person or a boring story about an

“The best thing that would come about from the collapse of the internet is no more hacking stories. Seriously, we have all these superpowered people,

“The best thing about this memoir is that, unlike some comedian memoirs, it’s not just an alternate, weaker, less-engaging version of their stand-up. I hate

“The best part of this is the part that says creativity isn’t something you either have or you don’t. Everyone’s got it, and “creative” people

“The backstory behind this book is very charming, the idea that there was supposed to be a sort of haunted museum attraction at Disney along

“The art itself is pretty cool, but 1. The pictures go across the fold, and that sucks. There’s all this space tucked in for book

“The art is unbelievable. The writing is also unbelievable, but not in the same, positive way. The dialog feels like weird Andy Kaufman stream-of-consciousness that

“The art is great, the primary story arc is okay, but the whole thing feels like an outline rather than a complete story. There’s also

“The art is gorgeous in spots, and I think the ideas here are very solid. But I don’t think I would really understand what’s going

“The art is good, especially the mock vintage pieces, but here and there the colors and lines get a little busy for me. The story

“The art in this book is incredible. Like a grosser Mike Allred. The story is…not as stellar. May also be comparable to someone named Mike,

“That’s the end? Shit. It kinda went a little Mind MGMT at the end there, but then I guess our heroes sort of ride off

“That kind of sucked. Marvel, it’s time to slow down with the big crossover events. They can be fun. They can be REALLY fun. But

“Team Allred nails it again on the art front, and I thought this one had a storyline that a lot of other comics try to

“Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield Okay, before we get too

“Swamp Thing in comics is a little like Batman in movies: Do we need ANOTHER origin? I think there’s meant to be something new or

“SUUUUUUPER fucked up. If you don’t like to read something that’s really super fucked up, I would definitely pass on this one. If you’re someone

“Superman saves Metropolis. A kid gets out of bed. Seems like equal work. If I was Superman, I’d be insulted by this book. And then

“Super weird, super gross stories, which was exactly what I was hoping for. Junji Ito’s stories and collections tend to blend a little, but at

“Super sad and honest. Great example of a book that shows how a graphic novel can tackle a big, emotional subject. “

“Super great. First essay is one of the best, especially if you’re interested in podcasting, interviewing, and what the truth is. Guest-starring Ira Glass, so

“Super cute, exactly what you’re looking for if you read 4 or 5 pages and like what you see. I would like to name a