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“If we could extract the weird, acid-trip stuff from Grant Morrison and just hang on to the great ideas and character exploration, I would be

“If the idea is to parody a certain subculture, then Simon Hanselmann nailed it hard. It gets better as it goes, and towards the end

“If someone wrote a manga about me, it’d be called: Volume 1 Man Because I like the volume 1’s, but then I’m usually all set.

“If one learned history from comics, one would have no choice but to assume that boy rape was the most rampant threat to the American

“If I’d taken on this challenge: Drank all the beer in the fridge almost immediately. Woke up and the fridge was filled with bags of

“If I were to foster a cat right now, I’d name it Doctor Robot, for sure. It’d be kind of fun to name your kid

“If I were a smarter reader, I’d have looked into this and known that I should have read more of Zdarsky’s Daredevil FIRST before getting

“If I was the kind of person who let others defecate in my home, this is what I’d keep in the bathroom for them. I’d

“If I may, I’d like to share the origin of the Bad Breath Vampire: Once upon a time there was an average garbage man. Average

“If I had to come up with a theme as a serial killer?I’d be the SBD killer, and I’d go after anyone with modified exhaust

“If I had to choose between reading this entire book or eating it…I’d ask whether I can prepare the pages in a way of my

“If I found out I owned an apartment with an old man living his golden years peacefully inside, I’d kick his ass out in a

“If HP Lovecraft did a 100 Bullets story, here we go. Which sounds sort of awesome, and I thought it would be, but hey, life

“If House was a little more fun, if he could do stuff like full body transplants, you’d have Black Jack. I’m always game for a

“I’d like to nominate this for great first lines of all time: “I never should have married a woman named Decapitron.” Truer words are rarely

“I’ve long been a fan of Portland, and made it no secret that I’d very much like to live there. The first time I went

“I’m not what you’d call a foodie. I do like to cook, and I’m working on getting better at it, but at the same time

“I’m gonna go with my normal policy that applies to someone’s story of personal trauma and leave a star rating off this one because it’s

“I’m giving this series another shot because I’m 8 years mature-er and have eight more years of vocabulary to draw upon, hence “mature-er.” A lot

“I’m convinced this story came from going home to a small town for Thanksgiving. Your friends are different, your dad is weird and emotional, and

“I’m all in on the return of crusty biker Lobo and his resurgence. In the anals (I know that may strike you as being incorrectly

“I’m a sucker for lord of the flies nonsense, which this is, so I was set up to love this one. Put a bunch of

“I…think they could’ve pulled this off, but it should’ve been a little later in the series. This is like the “22 Short Stories About Springfield”

“I…loved this.Now, I know that I would’ve hated this when I was 15. I liked BatGod at that time, the dark, brooding superhero who could

“I wrote an entire column about how this book belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of How To Write books, even if you never write a

“I wrote a WHOLE-ASS column about this series over at LitReactor: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-strange-forgotten-marvel-anti-hero-foolkiller“

“I wrote a whole column about Charles Addams, and I think all but one of the images comes from this book. Truly an underrated master

“I would trade 10% of my intelligence to be able to pull off a cowboy hat and have no one question it or talk about

“I would review this book the way I’d review the boobs of this old lady I used to mow the lawn for who came running

“I would read a book about Joel Cohen losing at anything. Hey, losing isn’t just about races and board games anymore! There are lots of

“I wish this series had started with the previous volume. I know it’s a little cliche to start a story at the beginning, but volumes

“I wish I could do art and story separately.The art is really good. I like how the characters look like real people, all a little

“I wish everyone would read this before the upcoming election. Because my god, this thing reads like a preventative guide for most, and a tactics

“I will always give Chuck a 5 because I consider him a mentor and friend. He almost certainly does not consider me a friend, and

“I wasn’t AS charmed by Fred this outing, but to be fair, I was VERY charmed the first time. Recommended along with this book was

“I was very, very sad to hear about the passing of local poet Robert King. His work is incredible, and in my copy of this

“I was thinking. Even though he’s super stupid and lame in the comics, how cool would Stilt Man be in real life? Sure, it’s insane.

“I was sort of hoping to find some challenges to replicate for a more adult party, and I didn’t find them, but that’s okay, good

“I was SO excited to read what I understood to be the Frank-Miller-penned script for Robocop 2, which was turned down for movie-dom because it

“I was looking forward to Tom King’s signature applied to Batman: The application of different framing devices or lenses to look at the same character.

“I was going to make a joke about the bad choice being to finish the book, but I’m sure someone else did it. Pretty sure.

“I was confused as hell. There’s a body that we’re investigating for some reason, there’s a Iraqi mover and shaker who is doing a whole

“I was a bit surprised to read the backstory of the Boogie Nights character in the form of a middle grade comic, but so it

“I wanted to give this another shot, and in order to know what in the holy hell was going on in volumes 2-4, I had

“I wanted so badly to mock this book. But you know what’s crazy, a sure sign of how stupid I am? Can I ask in

“I want to solve a mystery. Just once in my life. A real whodunit. A whahappened? A Howsitwhatsit? But it’s not in the cards for

“I walked into a comics store yesterday for one thing: Spider-Man and the X-Men written by the hilarious Elliott Kalan. Being the first time I’d

“I waited for this to pop up on my Kindle. I even connected that thing to the internet, losing all the library books I’d stashed

“I try to read a scary book every October because Halloween is the best holiday. And this, though not what we’d traditionally call horror, fit

“I try to avoid WWII stories most of the time. I just feel a little over it. So when my book club picked City of

“I tried to buy this in a hip Chicago bookstore, and the clerk there was telling me that they were sold out. She then proceeded

“I took another crack at volume one and then went straight through volume 3. Which is definitely the way to read this book. I’m going

“I took 7 quizzes to find out which Ninja Turtle I am. Results:Donatello: 4Leonardo: 1Raphael: 1Michelangelo: 1 Well, I guess that’s not so bad. I

“I thought this was a good time to look at some of the TMNT action figures from my youth. Mutagen Man:“Victim of Krang’s insidious experiments,

“I thought it would be really interesting to see what a bunch of different people would put on their bookshelves. And it was. Sort of.

“I think…the story was good, but I’m having a problem with Captain America. Reading this guy is like dating a lady who’s really not over

“I think, reading this, I realized that I’ve read a lot about Nolan Bushnell, but nothing about Ralph Baer, which sort of proves the point

“I think what we get here is the object that is promised in the series title, and getting that 26 volumes in would normally piss

“I think what I liked about Old Trek (TOS through…probably some of Voyager?) is that, for the most part, episodes stood alone. You didn’t usually

“I think we’re supposed to be unsure whether or not Hellboy murdered Satan. Or the Devil or whoever. The Hellboss guy. But I’m a little

“I think this would be more fun if the villains were more wacky, like a Batman ’66 thing. They almost get there with a villain-turned-chef

“I think this is all you need to know to make your reading decision is this line, uttered while one character watches another character beat

“I think this book does the leaked nudies story in a way that’s maybe a little too simple. Everyone except our main character is kind

“I think there’s nothing worse than attending a wedding where you’re hardcore peripheral. I mean, going to a wedding where you have to do shit

“I think the love for this one comes from the fact that it’s a book people can write ABOUT and seem smart. “

“I think the key to getting down to one cup of coffee a day is to get a job I like. If I had a

“I think the big thing to say about this book and its thesis is that it feels almost taboo to read it and give it

“I think RL Stine wrote this because he was just trying to get some peace in the basement and his kids wouldn’t leave him alone.

“I think I’ve finally, after a lot of searching, found a manga I enjoy. It hasn’t been easy. It’s just not my thing. The storytelling

“I think it’s necessary to start seriously reviewing cookbooks on here, and I’ll tell you why. In recent history I feel like I’ve become this

“I think it’d help if I knew anything about the original Sabrina, aka Witch Explains It All. I don’t know much. I know there were

“I think I’d fare well in a zombie apocalypse, based on our 2020 apocalypse. It seems like most issues people have come from their hearts

“I think I liked this more than a lot of other readers, and the reason I liked it is because, when you think about it,

“I think I know why I like Atomic Robo so much: It’s everything that I was promised by the Iron Man movies. Iron Man is

“I think I fucked up and read this in the wrong order? Oh, well. It happens. It’s very Mark Millar: everyone is doing infidelity, superheroes

“I think doing middle grade comics has to be a sigh of relief for writers and artists. It’s like, you don’t have some fanboy nerd

“I think Delerium’s dialog mostly comes from fishing a beginning poetry class’s notebooks out of the trash, cutting and pasting.”

“I think at this point in time, you know if you’re a fan of Kevin Smith or not. What’s good about books and comics is

“I think a witch put a curse on me and now this book reads like it’s about twice as long as it needs to be.

“I sure hates me a rhyming demon. “

“I stayed up until 2:30 last night reading this book.Staying up until 2:30 isn’t that unusual for me, but there was (almost) no booze involved,

“I stayed up late writing this, and I decided not to post it last night. I decided not to post it because I thought, “Is

“I started this like 3 years ago and never reviewed it! The first 2/3 was pretty solid, but then the book kinda takes a shit.

“I somehow missed rating this one. Probably because I was moving at the time. An audiobook is a great friend when you’re moving. Because you

“I scrolled down a little to see: what do people write for volume 19 of a series?I mean, if you hate it at this point,

“I saw this shelved by someone as “abstract comics,” and that’s probably the best way to phrase it when you’re confronted with something that just

“I ROYALLY fucked up with Royal City. I read volume 1 months ago, and I shoulda just kept rolling. Instead, I took a break. A

“I recommend ignoring the idea of this being a retelling of the Odyssey. Okay, it’s about a warrior who has to make the journey home.

“I really liked SHIT My Dad Says (no asterisk because I’m a goddamn adult. Capitalized because I’m an adult only chronologically), but this one wasn’t

“I really like Jessica Abel’s stuff. I thought Out On The Wire was great, one of my favorite reads last year. But this one didn’t

“I really enjoyed the Nightwing books from the mid to late 90’s. They were quick, smart, and they had great art by Scott Mcdaniels that

“I really do hate the sea and everything in it. “

“I read this. This is not a 1-star review because I hate the idea. It’s a 1-star review because I looked at every page in

“I read this, and so can you! I mean, I can read it to you! Fast-forward to 11 minutes in to hear the story without

“I read this YEARS ago when I was getting all up into Alan Moore’s America’s Best Comics line, but I wanted to read it again.

“I read this whole thing out loud on a podcast. Almost. It was kind of a last pass-through, so there were some rough patches. You

“I read this thing almost 10 years ago? How is that possible? How have I gotten so old? I have to trim my nose hairs

“I read this mostly because I’ve got an article cooking about Stephen King’s decision to pull ‘Rage’ from publication. I thought it’d be good to

“I read this for a middle school book club. It’s worth noting that they loved it. For a grown-up…I don’t know. There’s a scene towards

“I read this entire thing. Like 350 pages. And when I say I read it, I don’t mean like you read a cookbook, skim it,