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Thinner by Richard Bachman My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you’re interested, the audiobook is read by Joe Mantegna, who also plays Fat Tony

Today I saw a book review of a Rebecca Solnit book. The reviewer credited Solnit for inventing the term “mansplaining.” I looked further, and lots

Village of the Mermaids by Carlton Mellick III My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mermaids are jerks. I looked up some mermaid legends. Turns out

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man by Tom King My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Vision decides to live a normal

Quicksand House by Carlton Mellick III My rating: 4 of 5 stars Check out this part of the intro to this book: Quicksand House is

The Running Man by Richard Bachman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like most people, I saw the movie adaptation of this long, long ago,

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I feel like an idiot because for the last few weeks I’ve been

Howard the Duck, Vol. 1: Duck Hunt by Chip Zdarsky My rating: 4 of 5 stars Vol 0 is definitely a favorite where this one

Harrow County, Volume 1: Countless Haints by Cullen Bunn My rating: 3 of 5 stars When I come home, I greet my cat by saying

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates My rating: 3 of 5 stars Let’s start with the art: I quite

Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown My rating: 2 of 5 stars I’m convinced there’s a really interesting story in here, but I

Tumor Fruit by Carlton Mellick III My rating: 4 of 5 stars How do I feel… Tricked. Sort of. While not as bizarre as Mellick’s

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 5: The Pickens County Horror and Others by Mike Mignola My rating: 3 of 5 stars Pickens County, which is

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 4: The Devil’s Engine & The Long Death by Mike Mignola My rating: 4 of 5 stars And then B.P.R.D.

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 3: Russia by Mike Mignola My rating: 4 of 5 stars Did I think I’d ever read a comic book

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 2: Gods and Monsters by Mike Mignola My rating: 4 of 5 stars Even though I don’t like that there’s

The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America’s UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich My rating: 3 of 5 stars I picked this one up because

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 1: New World by Mike Mignola My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s Hallo-Spooka-Skelebones-A-Ween! And so, why not dive into

The Legacy Of Luther Strode by Justin Jordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mr. Strode? It’s been a nice ride. I’d just like to

Prez, Vol. 1: Corndog-in-Chief by Mark Russell My rating: 4 of 5 stars This, I liked! And this is coming from someone who is currently

Business Person: As an icebreaker, we’re going to play Two Truths and a Lie. Peter, would you like to start? *I put a duffel bag

The Manhattan Projects, Vol 6: The Sun Beyond the Stars by Jonathan Hickman My rating: 3 of 5 stars What can I say? If you’re

The Manhattan Projects, Vol 5: The Cold War by Jonathan Hickman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ll be honest, it’s too long between volumes

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty by Mark Waid My rating: 2 of 5 stars The mind-blowing thing about this collection, it’s a perfect sample for

Batman by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones Vol. 1 by Doug Moench My rating: 3 of 5 stars Kinda lame, but kinda awesome. This is

Cozy Classics: Jane Eyre by Jack Wang My rating: 2 of 5 stars So here’s the concept: What if we made characters out of yarn,

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF by Amy Reeder My rating: 5 of 5 stars Yay! Representation! #Science #ScienceisUhmazing #DiversityInComics … Have I

Mystery of the Maya by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 1 of 5 stars For this one, I made an attempt at crowdsourcing. I posted the

Mystery of the Maya by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 1 of 5 stars For this one, I made an attempt at crowdsourcing. I posted the

The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon by Meghan Mccarthy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Whoo! Okay, this is the

Sam Patch: Daredevil Jumper by Julie Cummins My rating: 3 of 5 stars Oh, Sam Patch, you old-timey anacronism! Sam Patch was a “Daredevil Jumper,”

The Little Man in the Map: With Clues to Remember All 50 States by E. Andrew Martonyi My rating: 1 of 5 stars The other

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 3: Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now by Ryan North My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn’t like it

Punishment: Earth by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 1 of 5 stars Because none of my strategies have worked thus far, I decided to go with

I Can Remember the Meaning of Every Tarot Card But I Can’t Remember What I Texted You Last Night by Elle Nash My rating: 5

Part-Time Princesses by Monica Gallagher My rating: 3 of 5 stars Okay, a little Scooby-Doo-y. There’s a derelict amusement park and a shadowy figure who

The Lost Jewels of Nabooti by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 1 of 5 stars The woman with a snake in her eye is completely without

Blood on the Handle by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 1 of 5 stars In this book, my parents have vanished mysteriously on a sailing trip,

Monster by Walter Dean Myers My rating: 3 of 5 stars Pete For The Defense: Your honor, we all know that the lookout is the

Atomic Robo Volume 9: The Knights of the Golden Circle by Brian Clevinger My rating: 3 of 5 stars Time Travel. How many times have

Descender, Vol 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire My rating: 3 of 5 stars What the hell is with people in semi-apocalyptic scenarios putting prisoners

Giant Days, Vol. 2 by John Allison My rating: 3 of 5 stars There are hummingbirds outside my window, and that’s more exciting than this

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann My rating: 4 of 5 stars SUUUUUUPER fucked up. If you don’t like to read something that’s really super fucked

Vincent by Barbara Stok My rating: 3 of 5 stars What a weird and difficult task. Imagine you’re a comic book artist, and someone is

World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Here’s something I just found out: There are a bunch of books you

We Stand On Guard by Brian K. Vaughan My rating: 2 of 5 stars America fights a war with Canada. In most books we have

VARGR by Warren Ellis My rating: 3 of 5 stars VARGR is not some kind of code for VAGINA. It sort of looked like it

Chew, Vol. 10: Blood Puddin’ by John Layman My rating: 4 of 5 stars So many things happen in Chew that I didn’t realize I

It never turns out good. In this case, it turns out that it’s because someone tweeted some racist shit and her boss fired her. Boy

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars What’s left to say about it? Great.