I think I might have been missing something. Last Days ended on a serious cliffhanger, and somewhere before Super Famous, there must have been a Marvel cross-over somewhere. I was pretty confused about the sudden shift in tone and plot, and I think I spent most of the volume being pretty disoriented. I don’t know if I’ll continue reading the series, if it’s heading in this direction, instead of living within its own universe. Super Famous takes place several months after the events of Last […]
Major paradigm shift ahead.
There are sometimes shifts in a story’s sequence that change the universe of the story forever. G. Willow Wilson introduces such a schism in Last Days, the fourth volume of Ms. Marvel, and it resets the universe in a way that I’m not sure of yet. The story is dramatic, and it ends on an unsettled note, which makes me wonder where the direction of the series will go next. Kamala and her loved ones are all threatened by a cataclysmic event that will end […]
Ms. Marvel strikes again!
After galloping through the first two volumes of Ms. Marvel, I was eager to dive into the third. Oh, man, Crushed is so good. It’s easily my second-favorite series after Saga (because nothing is going to top Saga anytime soon, let’s be honest). I’ve been really excited by the way G. Willow Wilson unpacks Kamala Khan as both teenaged girl and superhero, and this volume strikes that balance especially well in Volume 3. Kamala is paid a visit by Loki, who wants to know a […]
A queer graphic academic text
I’m always looking for intersections between academic writing and popular culture, and so, when I saw that my library had added Queer: A Graphic History to its new graphic novel shelf, I was instantly intrigued. My journey to LGBT+ allyship has been a long and winding road, and I didn’t get any queer theory in my collegiate career until graduate school. What Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele do is unpack the idea of “queer” as a cultural and intellectual concept and help explain the ideology […]
A strange but intriguing little tale
’ve been going through a Glamourist Histories withdrawal. I’ve been wishing that the series wasn’t over, even though I was really happy with the way Mary Robinette Kowal wrapped it up. I did a library search to see what else I could read and happily, there are a few things left that I had not yet uncovered. I decided to start with a novella, Forest of Memory. It’s a short, tense, and captivating read, and you see where Kowal’s fantasy and sci-fi roots take hold. […]
Eh. Room was better.
Last year, I read Room for the first time and never forgot the experience. I was curious to see how Emma Donoghue’s other works would stack up. When I saw her latest book, The Wonder, on my library’s new books shelf, I thought that I’d give it a try. I’ll have to read a different book, because The Wonder was a mixed bag and very different than Room. Lib Wright is an English nurse who was mentored by Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. She’s now […]
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