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“I read this damn fuckin thing out of order and now I’m pissed at myself. Whatever. Long live the Goon. I’d dress as the Goon

“I read this book in Spanish! Which means that the title was in Spanish, and the acknowledgements, but other than that, it’s the EXACT same

“I read this book in a college class called “World Literature By And About Women” in college. Kind of an arduous title for a class.

“I read this book because a teacher I work with had a parent who complained about her 15 year-old reading Persepolis. So, I tried to

“I read this because it’s Halloween time.Now, you might be thinking, Pete, it’s early September. Yeah, it is. I have a guide to help you

“I read this and Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina on the same day for total comics whiplash. Well, I think this one is a lot more interesting

“I read this and My Best Friend’s Exorcism back to back, so it sounds to me like it’s time for a good ol’-fashioned book off!

“I read it. I did it. I didn’t hate it.The most obnoxious thing I could do is say something like: I’ve got a review coming

“I read five of these volumes, so I’m going to do a 5-part My Current Goodreads Complaints series. Part 5: Single Issue Comics Folks, this

“I read five of these volumes, so I’m going to do a 5-part My Current Goodreads Complaints series. Part 4: Private Accounts Dipshits, a private

“I read five of these volumes, so I’m going to do a 5-part My Current Goodreads Complaints series. Part 3: Beige I find Goodreads to

“I read five of these volumes, so I’m going to do a 5-part My Current Goodreads Complaints series. Part 2: PopDown Ads EVERY time I’ve

“I read five of these volumes, so I’m going to do a 5-part My Current Goodreads Complaints series. Part 1: Why Does That Thing Shoot

“I read a rumor somewhere that Mark Spragg was unhappy with one of his novels. I don’t know whether that was the one that followed

“I put a spoiler alert on here because it might spoil your day to read this. Two stars for a method that probably works, but

“I probably didn’t give this one the attention it deserves.I found this thing out with The Onion. You know, that newspaper that used to be

“I picked this up exclusively because I thought it would be a palatable way to learn some shit that might score me some points at

“I picked this one up because I felt like I was in the mood for a non-fiction book that was not related to politics or

“I only have nice, mushy things to say about this book. I know, that’s not as fun to read. But what can I say? It

“I occasionally get all into an art motivation sort of book, and this one’s under-read. I think I identify hardest with the idea that if

“I object to the pronunciation of “Neanderthal” that goes “knee-and-ur-tall” because the neanderthals were not very tall, and this makes it seem like maybe they

“I now get why the Suicide Squad movie stank. See, this comic, it’s basically the same thing as that movie. Take that movie, switch a

“I never knew that ladies were so troubled. ALL ladies, apparently. I’d like to apologize to any ladies that I made feel bad in the

“I must’ve read a lot further into this series than I thought originally, because I definitely made it this far and then some. I picked

“I mostly read this because a good friend told me it made him weep. Which is something that happens to me A LOT these days.

“I mostly liked this, although I found the main character pretty annoying when she was in her TikTok mode (which is probably intentional, always a

“I might have just made a world-rockin’ Captain America discovery. Other than on the cover of Captain America issue #1, I’m not sure Cap actually

“I might even bump this up to a 4-star book.The version I read had the reprinted phone number you could call! For those not in

“I mean…you either laugh or you don’t. And just in case you’re wondering, “faggy” is used in a very different context here. In fact, I’m

“I mean…what’s to say? It’s about what you’d expect. Probably the most interesting thing is that the artists would draw and ink together, sharing both

“I mean…it was fine. It’s not Tom Gauld’s fault, but I think I’m a little sick of fictionalized versions of fictionalized stories that show things

“I mean, when you have an extended analogy about how unplausible it is that a pepper mill would make its way up your ass, I’m

“I mean, of course it’s good. What’s it gonna do, suck? Was that even really possible? I don’t know that the plot and characters were

“I mean, look. There’s a very simple test here. Are you interested in the dark comedy of a guy stabbing himself with a knife made

“I mean, it’s hard to love a story about a virus that’s defeated by willpower. That’s…that’s not a thing. You can’t get rid of rabies

“I mean, it’s fine, but the thing about Happy is that it’s got a premise, tough-as-nails Frank Miller character sees a floating unicorn, and that’s

“I mean, it never occurred to Batman, World’s Greatest Detective, that he might be framed for murder at some point? It kind of fits with

“I mean, duh, of course. Lisa’s poems always have this connection to nature and living things, this way of making those things we all share

“I mean, damn, this one was okay, but I was already in Damian overload before this one. I don’t know what it is with this

“I mean, c’mon, gangsters stealing a kid’s wheelchair? That seems a little cartoonishly evil, no? If you need to prove someone is evil, you could

“I maintain that the only Deadpool product that works is the movie. The comics just never seem to hit the right notes. I have to

“I made it through to the K’s before stopping. Here’s the thing: when the book is telling you about tattoos, it’s pretty interesting. The secret

“I made a mistake: When I read Fantastic Four: Full Circle, I was kind of meh about it, and then I saw most of the

“I made a mistake with this series. A dire mistake. I took too long to read the last volume, fell out of love with the

“I made a box for my own ashes. No, I’m not dying. Just in case some of you were worried this might be the last

“I maaaaaay have had a good deal of Nyquil in my system before I read this, and that may have affected my enjoyment. I have

“I loved this one, and oof, it’s going to be divisive. What I liked about the last few books David Sedaris has written is that

“I loved this book when I was younger, and it’s still great now. It’s weird, it’s genuinely funny, and Judd Winick couldn’t be nicer. I

“I love some of Tom King’s other stuff, but this one didn’t cut it. TOO opaque for my liking. Also, I’m not really sure what

“I love Marc Maron. But I just need more than his set in text. There were expansions, but not enough. I saw him live two

“I love East of West, and also it feels like each trade has about 15 minutes of reading in it, and everything is ABOUT to

“I look forward to the spinoff fantasy series about these three young ladies fighting actual giants. I don’t know, what do you want from me?

“I listened to this on audiobook with my mom while we drove to Santa Fe. Believe me, just about anything would be entertaining in that

“I liked this, AND it feels like we’ll eventually have every moment of Vader’s life filled in by some entertainment product. When we see how

“I liked this one better than the first. WAY less Peter Parker stuff, way more Spidey. I’ve always said that comics are really more like

“I liked this metaphor for heartbreak and all that, and I liked where it ultimately goes, but… Near the beginning, our main character uncovers a

“I liked this better when it was In The Mouth of Madness, and not just because I was loaded when I watched that movie. But

“I liked the first half of this quite a bit. Then…it kind of turns into advice on how to do a wedding. With drawings. Good

“I liked that we got some background in this one. And it was delivered in a nice way. I also liked fake Stan Lee. That

“I like Zahler’s stuff, and especially his ideas. I don’t know that I love his drawings, and some of his dialogue reads like, well, the

“I like to make fun of heist stories because…I don’t know, they’re always slick and cool. I can prove I like to make fun of

“I like this shit. So impractical! How come we didn’t learn more impractical science in school? You can learn so many scientific ideas by applying

“I like this Moon Knight. Crazy man who does punching really good. That’s the tagline.”

“I like this Fantastic Four: mostly self-contained, weird cosmic shit going on. Alicia Masters being blind and into the Thing brings up a question for

“I like this concept, Garth Ennis playing out the small aspects of WWII by inventing characters to take us through them. It’s like having a

“I like these Ito books where it’s one story through the whole thing. Also, this one has a for-real ending! I mean, it’s not always

“I like the whole X-Files vibe going here, but I have to say, I think this book totally blows its own biggest surprise way too

“I like the return of Rickert, a character we haven’t seen for a minute. Okay, in old-timey times, if you were a blacksmith, your kid

“I like the idea of a Tomie, a Frankenstein of sorts that’s maybe not quite evil, just sort of petty and bitchy. Like if you

“I like that this is going an Event Horizon-y direction. I’ll take it! That movie is like one of the most divisive movies out there.

“I like that things can always get worse for Guts. Most stories, when an interdimensional butthole shat out thousands of horrific monsters that ate everyone

“I like that things are still pretty tense right up to the end here.”

“I like it. But honestly, it’s like a lot of other things and not quite as good. It’s like Sweet Tooth, but it doesn’t tug

“I like elves being little bastards. That’s some good fun.”

“I learned a thing! There’s a great joke in this book about Jughead’s name, and it got me thinking. “What is a jug, anyway?” I

“I know some people found this to be a coasting to a stop, but I liked it. I’m not real into message-y shit about class

“I know Rick Remender wrote this as an expression of his troubled childhood and teenage years, so I hate to shit on it. It’s just

“I know I’m a bad comic book fan, but I’m weak when it comes to following artists. I just…I don’t know. I feel like some

“I knocked off a star because goddamn it, this book does the thing. The thing where we’ve got journal pages and stuff like that, but

“I just want to put this here because it needs to be somewhere in case I don’t get around to it: I really want to

“I just spent about 20 minutes figuring out how caissons work. People had some HUGE balls back in the day. For anyone who hasn’t read

“I just read this one for the very first time today at the request/brute forcing of a co-worker. So Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel,

“I just read another review that says, in essence, that the crucial line that connects this story to the Hitchhiker’s Guide universe was cut out

“I just learned that Buckaroos are a specific type of cowboy, mostly people from Oregon. It’s apparently a morphing of the Spanish word for cowboy,

“I just downgraded this from 3 stars to 2. Because apparently I read this about 7 years ago, and I have ZERO memory of it.

“I just couldn’t follow this one. I mean, I sorta could, sorta couldn’t. I think maybe there’s more happening here than I got, but maybe

“I have two big problems with this book. Well, four problems. Two are big problems, two are small problems. And if this were Hot Dudes

“I have to upgrade this one from Worst Idea Ever to Mildly Okay Idea That Runs Out of Steam Really Quickly. The Punisher dies, then

“I have some controversial thoughts about this as a librarian and lover of weird shit: What the fuck, why, when I read this on Kindle,

“I have one of two problems with the work of George Romero. Either I don’t care much for his work in print, OR I don’t

“I have no idea what can be said about this book that hasn’t been said already. So I’ll just use this as a completely nonsensical

“I have an announcement: I think I may be a villain. This is because in this book, as in almost all of fiction, the doggo

“I have advice for crime writers. Show us the scene where a character is awkwardly trying to learn how to use a gun. Not like

“I have a weird problem with these Bat Family characters. Okay, here’s the deal. Batwoman appears to be her own person, have her own operation,

“I have a Kindle, and one of the features I use a lot is the % finished. This book doesn’t really get into the titular

“I have a hard time reviewing poetry. Every collection, it’ll have a few you love, a few you hate, and a bunch you won’t remember.

“I had to re-read volume 1 because it’s been like 40 years since I read it. It was totally worth it, although THEN I was

“I had such high hopes. I ALWAYS have such high hopes for Deadpool. And somehow it never quite hits for me. I’d love to hear

“I had fun with it. TOTALLY not for everyone. I think if you weren’t a 90’s member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society, this probably

“I had a teacher in college who was in love with Dracula and Lugosi’s version of him. This dude was so pumped when our class