I started reading the Birds of Prey series back in CBRIV and then I learned that Gail Simone didn’t start off writing the series and what I thought was Birds of Prey Volume 1 was actually Volume 3. And since I’m a completionist, I had to go back and get the real Volumes 1 and 2. And if Volume 1 is any indication, I can see why DC essentially rebooted the series with Volume 3 when Simone took over. I knew Simone was heralded as […]
If You’ll Be My Star, I’ll Be Your Sky, You Can Hide Underneath Me And Come Out at Night
I’m always down for a good fairy tale, which is probably why Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors, since he is also always down to write a good fairy tale. Having seen the movie version of this story before reading the book, there were a few bits where I preferred the movie version, but mostly the book version wins out. Tristran lives in Wall – a town with a wall, surprisingly. The wall borders Faerie. One day, when shy Tristran works up the […]
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
I’m a bit hesitant on picking up a book made from a blog. It’s just the content of some blogs don’t really lend themselves that well to physical media. And that’s where most of my problem with this book comes in. When I’m on the internet, I am totally down to read listicles because I’m usually looking for quick bites of information as a sort of short break from something. If something in the list interests me, I have the whole internet at my fingertips […]
Never Answering the Real Question: Was the Death of Rainbow Toots Avenged?
Wouldn’t we all have been friends with the weird girl in school that wrote Captain America saving unicorns from space aliens fanfic? (Or you were the weird girl yourself.) My point is (and I think the point of the recasting of Ms./Captain Marvel as an immigrant who is Muslim) that what is normally presented as “that one weird kid” in high school is really not that uncommon. “That one weird kid” is legion. Everyone’s teen years were awkward as hell, whether you were the popular […]
Suddenly Surprise Equus – A Phrase No One Wants to Hear
I like to think I mostly get British humo(u)r. I can quote more than just Monty Python Holy Grail. I’m aware the Hugh Laurie is more than Gregory House, M.D. and one half of the British national treasure that is “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”. But… I did not get this on. I had two main road blocks preventing me from liking this one. One, the sudden surprise Equus. (Of course, if there ever a time when you can be prepared for sudden surprise […]
Technicolor Space Voyage
There’s some satisfying symmetry to reviewing a gender-bent, acid trip of a reworked classic and absolutely hating every second of it (see my review for Pussy, King of Pirates from earlier in the year) and reviewing a gender-bent, acid trip of a reworked classic and absolutely loving it (see my review of ODY-C, right here!). First off, the coloring and the artwork are dazzling and delightful. There is a full page panel of Zeus, in all her glory (oh, yeah, small plot detail, Zeus eradicates […]
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