Archives

“Super cute, and the romcom is still alive in books, even if it’s sorta dead on the screen. It’s always been a dream of mine

“Such a great read! Spelunky, if you haven’t played it, is a roguelike platformer. Which means it’s kinda like crossing The Legend of Zelda with

“Stonelifting is about stone lifting. Another book that’s pretty honest in its title, you’ll get what you expect here. In 2019, oh, when I was

“Still WAY better than it has any business being, when I tell people it’s one of the better DC books I’ve read this year, I

“Still quite fun, though I’ve never been a big Black Adam guy. He’s DC’s Doctor Doom, and he’s just not a huge asshole like Doctor

“Still liking this book, but I could do with only ONE comedy sidekick, TBH. I would make for an excellent comedy sidekick, if anyone is

“Still great, but what’s with this crossover nonsense? We’ve got Chew and then Revival, two different series, and for some reason they did a crossover

“Still good, but my least favorite of Delisle’s travel comics. A lot of it probably has to do with the fact that I find North

“Starts super awesome, a very funny woman looking back at her teenage diaries, stuff like professing undying love for JJ as a teenager, and the

“Spider-Man in a different context. He’s sort of grown into his own, but when he becomes a member of the Future Foundation (formerly the Fantastic

“Space, man. And spacemen. And spacewomen. Astronauts, I guess. Are they still astronauts if they’re going out to space to kill stuff? Seems like the

“Sort of dark, and at the same time, it’s like a great sitcom premise from the 80’s that never got made: an alien crashes on

“Sorry, Jennifer. I’ve found myself somewhat a fan of memoirs written by female comedians and comedy writers. Don’t ask me why, it’s just seemed to

“Sooooo I thought this was sort of a summary of some of the juicier bits from the podcast. It is not that. It’s much more

“Soooo many complicated emotions about this book. Or thoughts, perhaps. For starters, this is not the BFB title to read if you’re not at least

“Somewhere in here there’s a BIG time jump between volumes, which…I thought I’d just forgotten what the fuck was going on. It happens a couple

“Sometimes I think it’d be awesome to invent a pill that let you forget specific pieces of media, so you could watch Jurassic Park for

“Sometimes I think I should learn Braille just in case. Like, it’d be much easier to learn while I had my sight, right? But then

“Something touched on in this that I totally agree with: Working a crappy job when I was 15 did convince me that I wanted to

“Someone, somewhere put this on a list of comics to check out this year. Excuse me, some A-HOLE from some S-Hole put this on my

“Someone just asked me “How did you learn to read poetry?” It’s a great question. It really is. Because I didn’t know the answer, but

“Someone does, in fact, catch a frog on the first page, so 10/10 for setting up an expectation and meeting it. I read this in

“Somehow this never made it onto my “read” list from my “to-read” list. So I’ll have to do my best to remember what happens. Sherman,

“Some really good lady and kid characters in this book. Also, MIKE ALLRED! Holy shit. I would read anything this guy draws. You always get

“Some good ol’ fashioned god slaughter plus a dip into the past, both of which were great. My journey with these folks may be coming

“Solid, solid book, highly recommend for kids, but also for adults who just want to goon around with a book, which is a great way

“Solid, scary, gross, and it’s not afraid to put some characters in the crosshairs, even if you want to see them make it. I’ll say

“Solid, good stuff. But it’s Will Eisner. What did you expect? The Purple Heart story is probably the strongest. I liked that one quite a

“Solid, and Abe is in it. Also, there was a funny little fat demon who was always flying around. He was spooky looking, but also

“Solid stuff, Mary Roach is back, baby! After my brush with death in Spook, I wasn’t so sure about Mary Roach because that book took

“Solid shit. Pretty explicit, but not salacious. It does sag a little in the last third or so when Doughty leaves her job, has a

“Solid ending, Kirkman is really good at those. I think Robert Kirkman is a very underrated writer, which seems impossible because he’s gotten so much

“Solid concept. Hercules decides to stop being a party animal and start being more heroic. Which means quitting the boozes. His buddy Gilgamesh and some

“So, so good. Dan Slott, if there’s any justice in the world, will be in the pantheon of great comic book writers. Yes, it’s a

“So, Craig Davidson and Nick Cutter finally meet! It definitely feels like there’s a thing going on here, two personae colliding. And the results are

“So violent, so dark, so berserk.”

“So torn here. Good book. Good read. Some of the more philosophical portions left me a little lost. I couldn’t picture what we were talking

“So this one takes us back into the world where the Plague of Frogs stuff is happening, Abe is evolving or something. All that. This

“So this is like…an elseworlds Walking Dead I guess where aliens are involved and alien technology and so on. It sort of reads like the

“So this dude basically goes undercover to bust some bad bad folks in a motorcycle club. But then he ends up getting a little deeper

“So some wiseass put this on my desk the other day. I figured, “Maybe someone is trying to send me a message.” Then I figured,

“So sexist. All the heroes are boys, and the only female character is a princess who is described by her beauty. LOL, just kidding! Can

“So much crazy stupid fun it’s unbelievable. If it kills your boner to read comics where Dr. Doom is kind of a dork, then don’t

“So many things happen in Chew that I didn’t realize I wanted to happen to me. But now I do. I want to eat a

“So I write columns for LitReactor, and I recently wrote a column called Writers Don’t Need Social Media. Shortly after, another writer over there published

“So I read this ENTIRE volume. Let me first review it as an object: This thing weighs almost eight pounds. That doesn’t sound that heavy,

“So here’s the concept: What if we made characters out of yarn, and we told the story of a classic book, but kid friendly and

“Skull Knight is so fucking metal I might c*m.”

“Short stories can be a tough sell. Strangely, they feel harder to write, and they give you a good deal of variety, but most people

“Shit gets a little Cronenberg, which is cool, but it’s not the right amount. Maybe too Cronenberg, maybe not enough. Hard to say. Also, Dimension

“Scientists in this can keep someone alive after they really should be dead. It’s like, “Oh, shit, she got hit by a tank! Okay, up

“Scene: [DEMON comes to earth to possess a human] [PETE is walking down the street, minding his own business. These two things go together, walking

“Saw meets Squid Game meets Drifting Classroom. There’s very little I enjoy more than people trapped in a situation trying to get out. That’s my

“Saw Bone Tomahawk, written by this dude, loved it. Saw Brawl in Cell Block 99, loved it more. So when I found out the same

“Rod Serling experienced some fucked-up shit in the war, and his battles with censors/sponsors were pretty interesting, but overall, the most interesting thing about Rod

“Robin’s legs have never looked better. Seriously, bro has NOT skipped even one leg day. It’s funny he’s named after a bird, because he does

“Robert Kirkman must’ve worked a terrible office job. In my experience, that’s how you end up writing narratives like this and The Walking Dead where

“RIP Steve Dillon Nobody could sell some crazy shit like Dillon.”

“Right now, I don’t know how to feel about this book.I guess I just need some time. Shit, that was supposed to be a hilarious

“Review forthcoming.”

“Review forthcoming”

“Re-read/listen. I listened to this entire book, read by the author, in the time it took me to get ready for work in the morning

“Recently I’ve been putting on chiptune covers of albums to listen to while I write. This serves the dual purpose of giving me something to

“Reasons Why Jeff Strand is My Personal Hero: a goodreads review that “save it for your blog” people will really dislike. 1. He’s a self-published

“Really talented artist. The story is very short and spare, but maybe that’s okay. It’s funny because people say every story should have a beginning

“Really super good. This year I’ve made it a point to look out for comics that are good alternatives to canon titles and that have

“Really more about the video game business than video games themselves, but I guess that’s how it was advertised if I’d had the smarts to

“Really good re-imagining of the Batman origin. Actually, more than anything, it turns Alfred into a real dude, which might only SOUND exciting for fanboys

“Reading a lot of hate on this book, which is surprising. I think it treads somewhat similar territory to World War Z, a shadow that

“Read this with the right frame of mind and you’ll be delighted. Is this a hardcore, realistic Batman? No. Is this a Batman who fights,

“Read this one for the art. Fun, dynamic. The characters have a distinct style, and it’s nice to see something so stylized come from a

“Read this if you’ve never read a Batman origin, because it’s really good. But who the hell hasn’t read a Batman origin story? It’s a

“Read a bunch of Deadpool this weekend and figured I’d mostly talk about the volume I enjoyed the most (although 8 was also pretty durn

“Quite a lot of story gets in the way of the silliness. I hate when story disrupts jokes, silliness, and other things that are more

“Question based on reading this book: It’s still en vogue to depict a fat, gluttonous king. Do you think the body positivity things will make

“Put my last quarter on, I’ll play Oblivion Song. How’s that for a Jimmy Eat World/Robert Kirkman mash-up? For something no one ever wanted, including

“Proud to announce my a new Kindle book: Conntra: Wads of Power Yes, our heroes kick some ass, then do some other stuff with some

“Prospero is trapped on an island, which may or may not be a much older Genosha, hard to tell. In order to make his escape

“Probably should have read this one before the other one because it’s the entire origin story. But you know what? Maybe it’s better to just

“Probably read too many issues of this series today, and now I feel like this is some kind of conspiracy, like people read this book

“Pretty okay. I have to say, when are we going to learn that we can’t just create humanoid beings, enslave them, and then be surprised

“Pretty good, pretty wacky, pretty bloody. The weirdest part was probably when it seemed like kirkman was writing in this little spiel about how female

“Pretty good, pretty interesting, though the opening and closing sections were more up my alley than some of the middle. I do take issue with

“Pretty good, nice to look at, fantasy-ish book where a kid has to adventure through a forest. I have this series of jokes I call

“Pretty good book, quick read, all that. The main thing I wanted to talk about is time travel because I really do want to talk

“Pretty forgettable, pretty boring stuff. Also, this is the kinda book where it takes place in Rape City, USA, where everyone with a Y chromosome

“Pretty decent manga as well. The story has a LITTLE more of that manic manga feel to it where sometimes I feel like there’s a

“Pretty basic feminism stuff with pictures of an orc or a lady laying on a couch. I do take issue with one particular point in

“Preposterous and great. Here’s the deal: This weird octopus creature guy blew the moon apart, then said that he would do the same to Earth

“Pickens County, which is real, seems to be a certain kind of county. I’ll let you guess, reader: A) UrbanB) Hillbilly Just based on name

“Philip K. Dick. The Pluses:-Tons of great ideas.-Still mined for movies on the regular.-One of the better beards. The Minuses:-Prose a little weak.-Dialogue downright tough.

“Pete’s Overly-Detailed Explanation of Why He Doesn’t Love Saga, Which Nobody Asked For Part II: The Grossening There’s a thing Saga does that I don’t

“Pete’s Overly-Detailed Explanation of Why He Doesn’t Love Saga, Which Nobody Asked For Part 3 I don’t think I’ve ever experienced having super mechanical sex

“Pete’s Hot Take:Sword fights are boring. It wasn’t until Stallone’s Bullet to the Head that I saw a movie brave enough to have an ax

“Pete, what did you expect? Much like Archie vs. Predator or the time Archie was hunted by The Punisher, I guess I expected a mayhem-filled,

“Pete just thought he might as well go ahead and read something that would get him all misty-eyed on a depressing Sunday afternoon. Mission: Accomplished.

“Pete For The Defense: Your honor, we all know that the lookout is the job of the person who least wants to be involved in

“Paul stories are always pretty darn good. I can appreciate them. They really are underrated in terms of being in the mix with something like

“Patrick deWitt just doesn’t fuck up. Again, he’s written a book with a super unlikable character, this time our main character. And made him sorta

“Pains me to say I’m quitting this one. Sorry, I’m about halfway and don’t know what the fuck is going on. There’s a guy who’s