Marvel Comics – Page 2 – Cannonball Read 17

A couple of Hulk stories that left me mostly underwhelmed.

Planet Hulk by Greg Pak

World War Hulk by Greg Pak

May 24, 2020 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Planet Hulk (2006) – 3 stars It’s always a bit of chore jumping into superhero comics. They are a bit like daytime soap operas: years of back story, dozens of characters, and high drama that doesn’t really mirror real life in any conceivable way. So it’s with some trepidation that I pick up any of these books these days. Except for the rare foray into the genre for Cannonball Read, I haven’t really read comics in about twenty years. So I’m pretty out of touch […]

The end for G. Willow Wilson, but not for Ms. Marvel.

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 10: Time and Again by G. Willow Wilson

June 27, 2019 by narfna 4 Comments

And so marks the end of G. Willow Wilson’s tenure on Ms. Marvel, something she thought wouldn’t last beyond a handful of issues, but has now gone on for seven years, and Kamala herself is flourishing at large in the Marvel Comics universe—or so I’ve heard, because I just can’t with superhero comics for the most part. They are too interconnected and I can’t read them all, it’s impossible, so I will read almost none of them instead. I have been making an exception for […]

Higher. Further. Faster. YAY!

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 2 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 3 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero, Vol 4 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

March 12, 2019 by cosbrarian 3 Comments

I’ve been waiting for the Captain Marvel movie since 2012! I read the first few volumes for a MOOC called “Gender Issues in Comics” which was presented on Canva by Christy Blanch. It was a wonderful course which jumpstarted my interest in superhero comics (particularly female superhero comics). And I completely got why Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers changed the game for female comics readers. So in anticipation of the new movie, I avoided all casting reveals and spoilers and revisited the first 3.5 volumes of the […]

Kick butts, eat nuts.

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North & Erica Henderson

January 15, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

I think I actually got this book free from Amazon. They sent me an email for some reason saying, here, pick a free book! I don’t remember why, but this was the one I picked. I potentially imagined this and actually bought the book while it was on sale, but either way, I’ve had it on my Kindle app for a while. (P.S. Reading comics on your Kindle app is surprisingly great. I still prefer hard copies so I can get as close to the […]

Vol. 9 and still going strong.

October 23, 2018 by narfna 3 Comments

Should I just copy and paste things from my previous reviews of this series so as to just really hammer the point home? “Okay, so Ms. Marvel is probably my SECOND favorite comic, definitely my favorite superhero comic. I love Carol Danvers probably as much as I love Kamala Khan, but the last couple of Captain Marvel trades have fallen a little flat for me, and meanwhile G. Willow Wilson continues to absolutely KILL IT with Kamala.” -Me, three years ago “How does this series […]

Just an everyday Jersey Girl

June 25, 2018 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

I’ve tended to read specific graphic novels and comics and not really venture out of my comfort zone but I found Ms. Marvel Volume 1 for free on Kindle Prime Reading and thought I’d give it a go. It had been pretty highly recommended and I was interested to see this take on a muslim teenager becoming a superhero. It was obviously a first volume so we had a fair amount of info dump and exposition but the bones of the story were solid. I […]

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