Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal – Cannonball Read 17

When Marvel Gets a Little Real

Ms. Marvel, vols.1-7 by G. Willow Wilson, Mirka Andolfo, Takeshi Miyazawa, Ian Herring

October 10, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

To be totally honest, Marvel and DC aren’t a major geekdom of mine. But upon recommendations, first by friends IRL and again here at CannonballReads, I started the Ms. Marvel series by G. Willow Wilson et al. The library had the first 8 volumes, then a skip then a volume then skip one or two, so for now until I can get some blanks filled in I’m limited to volumes 1-7; I haven’t finished 8 yet. I’ll get that one in the next batch. I […]

Unique does not mean alone.

April 8, 2017 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Goodreads recently posted the Hugo Nominations for Novel and Graphic Story, and while I don’t think I am going to make my way through many of the nominated books, I did find a few I was interested in. I already knew about Ms. Marvel and the nomination pretty much sealed that I go ahead a read a few issues. Turns out my library had all six volumes available and so here we are. Oh, also this comment inspired me to do so: “”message 1: by […]

Two great graphic novels reviewed in one hurried post. Typed on my phone, no less!

June 16, 2015 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

Here’s the deal. I’m apologizing up front for these two reviews. I’m currently sitting in an elementary school gym, typing away on my phone’s wordpress app, waiting for the chorus to come out and perform their spring concert. Selections include “Payphone” by Maroon 5 and “Treasure” by Bruno Mars. Things have really changed since I was a kid and the craziest we ever got was singing a song from Pippen or a medley of commercial jingles. But I digress. I read two great graphic novels, […]

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