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“What a great, big pile of shit! Let’s be clear, I fully expected a great, big pile of shit. I read it for that specific

“What a great example of comic book plotting. The impossible happens. Something that I DON’T want to happen happens. And the story works. It’s great.

“What a fantastic book. I’m so disappointed in myself that I’m only getting to King in my mid-30’s, but I’m making up for lost time.

“What a delight! Although I feel bad for poor Bigfoot.You know what I don’t like? That new cryptids, like Slenderman, have a known creator. That’s

“welllllll…I think a lot of discussion about this book regards the authenticity of its depictions. I’m of the opinion that, as that goes, you can

“Well.I have mixed feelings.The book is a fun read, no doubt. If you like Petey Wheatstraw, this is about as close as a book is

“Well…sometimes I like how Sandman works, and sometimes it’s like, everything is dreams, so anything can happen or not happen, and that doesn’t leave a

“Well…I gave up. I bought the audio for 30-some dollars and figured it might be a great listen. But I find myself dreading listening. Part

“Well…here’s the thing, the writing is absolutely wonderful. It’s really great stuff. But the story is harder to follow than my non-signaling, weaving uncle is

“Well. There’s a guy named Shoemaker. And there’s a report. And, as the parenthesis indicate, there are space aliens. So I guess I can’t complain

“Well, this should be popular… I think it’s fair to point out that I got about 20% of the way through this book before I

“Well, this project, begun in October 2020, has been completed! Er, well, I finished one step in my 2020 project. Ah, October 2020. What a

“Well, this kind of breaks away from my normal rule against reading about super-small subcultures. You know, those books about professional Scrabble players or guys

“Well, this is really 2022 on Goodreads, but I can’t seem to locate that no matter how I search. I found it yesterday, but GR

“Well, this is more about the philosophy of cartooning than it is a How to Draw book, so it didn’t exactly fit into my project.

“Well, this ended EXACTLY where I wish it would have started, with Tony Stark suiting up and heading into space. Of course. Goddamn it. Why

“Well, there are a couple different things I’ve read about this book. 1. Reviews along the lines of “Nobody writes through the mind of a

“Well, the tree grows very slowly and with exhaustive detail. Couldn’t get through this one. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I could have. And I

“Well, the parts that were good were GREAT. And the parts that weren’t as good were super not as good. Wow. With reviews like that,

“Well, the first story was great! It was more World War Z than Night of the Living Dead. Or, perhaps more accurately, Land of the

“Well, probably the worst joke book ever.“What’s Yellow and Lights Up?” is not a joke when the answer is “An electric peanut.” Another favorite?“What’s Yellow

“Well, pretty great. It’s like…how do I describe something as pulpy, but in a 90’s way? If you can read this with an appreciation for

“Well, my Kirkmania for this year, after last year’s final reckoning with Walking Dead, was Invincible, and it was another solid ride. This is a

“Well, I’ve seen some…interesting takes on this. I think mine has some to do with creativity. I do think we have traded curiosity and exploration

“Well, I’ve got a new obsession. Charles Hinton has a good collection of books on Kindle. Including The Billion Dollar Lottery, War of the Dinosaurs,

“Well, it’s a pretty damn thorough book about Castlevania. I don’t know what to say about it other than it delivers exactly what it promises.

“Well, if you like trippy, life of the mind shit, this is probably your jam. I do not like trippy, life of the mind shit.

“Well, I managed to clear a room of four women talking about this. Twice. Two DIFFERENT sets of women. So that’s a sign regarding how

“Well, I hated it. It’s kind of hard to say that because of the book’s subject matter. It makes me feel like I’m saying the

“Well, I finished, and overall, this is a 5-star series for me. It’s weirdly not life-changing or super heavy or anything like that, but it’s

“Well, honesty time. I’m reading this series in one of those huge tomes that has 5 books slapped together into one slab. A slapslab, if

“Well, after just talking about how people put too much emphasis on endings, I have to say the ending on this one let me down

“Well shit.I thought I had this all figured out between a few library services and I could read a pretty good arc. But it turns

“Well holy shit. If you like bleak books and minimalist writing, hit this one. As a challenge to my fellow readers: A minimalist book that

“Weirder than expected.It’s an interesting artifact, to be sure. I didn’t read the whole thing. Part way through I decided that I was enjoying skimming

“Weird. Not a spoiler because it’s how the volume begins, but what you should know is that Doctor Octopus has put his mind into the

“Weird. Kinda sloppy. I would like to share something I learned in a creative writing class. One time I wrote this story. It was all

“Weird. But good weird. If you don’t have a weird artsy friend, Lisa Hanawalt would make a good fill-in via her books. But if you

“Wearing a skin suit and walking among the dead kind of makes sense. It’s gross, but…it probably prevents you from having to kill people most

“We get Slimer, more Gozer, and Marshmallow Man? I mean, this is like Star Wars 7, a lot of the same. I never even saw

“We all know how I feel about half stars (for anyone who’s new here: silly and unnecessary). I just saw a rating for this book

“We all have those books that sit on a nightstand, half-finished for weeks, right? Months? Maybe a year? *cough* Well, at some point you have

“Wally West is kind of an asshole. So is this other superhero guy. I like that. I like these comics where superheroes are assholes. Not

“Wait…what? That’s my two-word (and four punctuation marks) review of Multiversity. Grant Morrison definitely doesn’t care whether readers follow the thread sometimes. And that’s cool.

“Wait, wait, wait. This is ALSO a time travel thing! Sort of! What the fuck, Marvel!? I thought we talked about time travel. I guess

“Vol 0 is definitely a favorite where this one was less favorite of favorites. But Howard’s reproductive partner clone (it’s complicated) is adorable, and there’s

“Vikings V. Aliens. I just read this: “Viking teeth were often subject to a great deal of wear, which is largely attributed to their diet.

“Very short, but really good expression of friend love. Platonic love? I don’t know. I can’t really describe it, and besides, the author does it

“Very Ennis. If you like Ennis, then read The Boys. If you don’t like Ennis, then don’t read The Boys. I’d maybe call this one

“Very cute, this is a good one for kids if you like that shit from the 80’s where kids movies were just a little bit

“Very cute, and I don’t mean that in a condescending way. Like when I see someone park real shitty and have to come up with

“VARGR is not some kind of code for VAGINA. It sort of looked like it to me. VARGR. VAGR. VAG. You get where I’m going

“Valiant Comics are back. That’s a thing. If you’d have asked me a few years ago which comics would never come back, I would have

“Ut oh, are we turning back towards the earlier volumes in a way Pete isn’t all about…?”

“UPDATE: Came back to this one about 2 years later with the intent of reading parts 2 and 3. It’s pretty solid. Last time, I

“Update: Finished! My project of reading all of ASM stalled out for a bit, but I’m back. With a vengeance! In pog form! All the

“UPDATE 2023: I just read a “Dark Knight by Miller reading order” thing online, and here was the suggested order: Dark Knight ILast CrusadeDK IIDKIII

“Unfortunately, I read this one and didn’t realize it’s the second in the series, so I was terribly lost.Who is the mysterious Prostetto? What is

“Um…okay, Silver Surfer sees, like, a light and comes to Earth where there’s this family who just moved from NYC, and then this dead guy

“Um, wow. Aquaman, typical SWM, is fair, but *hello* equity much?! Giving everyone an equal portion of fish to eat is a prime example of

“Um, no. That’s not exactly a stunning review, but it summarizes how I felt. The first third of the book is narrated by a really

“Um, it’s fine, but you get this half of the story, which just ends. It’s like a bad sexual outing where, somehow, it’s all over

“Uh, book club book. That’s the explanation for why. It’s pretty much what you’d expect, a whodunit with an ending that’s fairly interesting, although you

“Two factors in my favor here. 1. This book is by ANSON Montgomery, not R.A. (raging alcoholic, I assume). Maybe Anson is more reasonable. 2.

“Two books here, Bee Vixens and…damn it…oh, space prison for ladies. Jesus, I couldn’t even remember it, and I read it last night. Bee Vixens:Somewhat

“Turns out this is a series to be read in a shorter time than the decades or whatever it took for it to come out.

“Turns out that my hurry isn’t so much what’s prevented me from learning astrophyiscs up to now. But hurry does make for a good excuse

“Truth time: I read volumes 4-12 in a weekend, and here’s the weird part: I’ll score each one a 3, but overall it’s a 4.

“Trans gangs, deadly viruses, and Vietnam flashbacks. Vertical Run has it all. But as we’ve learned from Universal Soldier 2 and Jane Eeyre alike, guns

“Totally gorgeous book where the story starts maybe just a tad too late. What I mean is, I plowed through about 25 pages before it

“Totally fun. Totally nails the character. What can I say, I’m a Slott fan. A total Slott. Slottface. I’m Slotty as hell. I’m a slut

“Totally fine, but I’m glad I read it after finishing the whole series instead of in the middle. He’s a compelling character for sure, but

“Totally awesome. A great collection of monsters, folklore, and tales. Japanese monsters are pretty badass. There’s a monster that’s a giant skeleton made of other

“Total horseshit. The worst food I’ve ever made, seriously. I was one of the people that I think this book is intended for, a poor

“Took me less than the time of a medium-length Metallica song to get shot down by alien spacecraft. Again, I didn’t even get far enough

“Tom King took what he did with Vision and brought it over to DC. And it’s pretty great. It’s just such a different book. It’s

“To the titular question: I hate this question. I feel like it’s some weird proof that cats don’t actually love people or something, and I

“To be honest, the plot here left me very, very confused. I’m not famous for interpreting things very well, and this is especially true when,

“Time Travel. How many times have I ranted about this? Let’s do it. For real. And never again. Time travel, for the most part, is

“Time travel, so that’s not great, but at least it’s almost complete nonsense until the end, when they try to have it make sense. Look,

“Thus ends Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing. There were times when it was a bit of a slog. When things got a little cosmic

“Thor with long blonde hair and beautiful features? Count me out! I came here to read a comic about a beautiful, strong, MAN with gorgeous

“This, I liked! And this is coming from someone who is currently reading a book about fucking UFO’s because I’m so tired of reading anything

“This would be a great book to read if you had an idea for a comic and didn’t really have the skills. Scott McCloud isn’t

“This wasn’t really a 5, but poetry always gets a 5 from me. Because fuck it. This is my place. I make the call. That’s

“This was totally fine, but it was definitely The Sisters Brothers junior. “

“This was some BAD dialog. Real bad.It’s that clever, hard-boiled detective shit. “The dame walked out of my wet dreams and into the dry heat

“This was pretty good, pretty fun setup, seems like there’s stuff happening, more than meets the (stabbed out) eye. A good start.”

“This was pretty good, although there’s something that didn’t quite click for me.It’s kind of GA’s Dark Knight Returns, or Frankl Miller’s Daredevil, but green

“This was okay, but I’m not sure how this connects to Airheads, the film about three dopes who break into a radio station in order

“This was my third crack at this one. Every time I thought, “Huh. Why didn’t I finish this last time?” And there was always a

“This was lazy, even for him. It’s like 4 pages long, and all that happens is a dude thinks he’s the new Noah, then his

“This was kinda just a bunch of…stuff? Nothing but stuff? There was a lot of stuff, but it was almost completely disconnected stuff? It’s like…maybe

“This was fun, although I think my thirst for Big Trouble in Little China was satisfied by Big Trouble in Little China. But when Eric

“This was confusing as hell, and I figured out why. Here is the suggested reading order from an excellent Age of Apocalypse web site (http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/time/showquestion.asp?faq=13&fldAuto=58):

“This was another book read for genre-expanding. The basics of the plot: There’s this great sadness, almost like a disease, spreading over the world and

“This was a really mixed experience. The stories were good. Fast-paced, interesting stuff. Very rural, good for fans of Cormac McCarthy or Robert Olmstead. The

“This was a nice ending to the series, although the parts that strayed a little were off the mark. I had to write a review

“This was a great volume for people who aren’t all that familiar with Spider-Man, and it’s got plenty of stuff that bigtime fans will love,

“This was a 2-star book, but half the page count is the sketchbook, which goes through the whole thing again page-by-page. I guess that’d be