I love Kamala Khan. The Pakistani-American teen is joyful and anxious about life, and earnest about her new, Terrigen Mists revealed inhuman powers. She has so much with which to contend – new powers, secret identity, parents who want her to observe Pakistani customs, an inhuman family she’s just getting to know, and being a teenage girl. In Crushed, Kamala faces off with a benevolent Loki, her first crush, her family’s expectations and traditions, and some sort of malevolent pizza dough. I enjoyed the volume, […]
Meh Home
Another book club pick, another kind of ‘meh’ book for me. It’s only the second (I think) graphic novel I’ve ever read, and while I think I like the concept of graphic novels, I’m not sure. Given that this is supposed to be one of the best ones, and I just found it to be okay, I’m guessing maybe they just aren’t for me. The topic of the book is very interesting: it’s about Ms. Bechdel’s relationship with her father, who died when she was […]
Didn’t really see what the fuss is about
Carol Danvers, who is apparently a hot-shot pilot and one of the Avengers, lives in the crown of the Statue of Liberty (you can do that?) with her sister and niece. When the Avengers find an escape pod from a spaceship with an alien refugee inside it, they decide that Carol be the one to return the girl to her homeworld, as well as take up a more permanent presence in space as a representative for the Avengers Initiative. As she returns the girl to […]
A castle full of odd ducks and misfits
The opening story of Castle Waiting, which explains how the castle came to be abandoned, so to speak, is a variation on Sleeping Beauty. Only once the princess is awakened from her century of sleep and the hedge surrounding the castle lets people in and out, she goes off with her prince and pretty much forgets about the place where she slumbered and the people in it. As the years pass, the castle becomes a refuge for various outcasts and odd characters, with the princess’ […]
Order is Always One Realization Away From Disintegration
A few weeks ago fellow Cannonballer, Vermillion, was posting pictures of the swag he was getting and thoughts he was having at the State of Black Science Fiction Con in Atlanta. One of the the things he posted about was Genius, and Genius‘ artist, Afua Richardson. Genius is about a young African American woman who leads her neighbors in taking back their Los Angeles neighborhood from corrupt cops. It arrived in the mail and I gobbled it up. But I’ve been sitting on the review […]
Forget the stupid rat-creatures. Stupid and annoying Phoney Bone, more like it
The three Bone cousins Fone Bone (renamed Hero Bone in my head), Smiley Bone (Comic Relief Bone) and Phoney Bone (Greedy, or frequently Insufferable, Bone) have been driven out of their home town of Boneville because Phoney Bone had some sort of get rich quick scheme and scammed the entire town, and now an angry mob has driven them off. They are wandering in the wilderness when they are attacked by a huge swarm of locusts and end up in a mysterious forest in a […]
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