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“There’s just not enough good I can say about this book. It’s everything I wanted it to be. Richard tells some horrific stories, having his

“There’s a very cool trend in comics right now where these scientists, guys who are supposed to be smart, are ACTUALLY smart. DOCTOR Reed Richards

“There’s a trope in horror that I’m all set on. By which I mean I’ve had enough and would like something else. It’s the Reasonable

“There’s a thing happening. Kevin Wilson wrote the Family Fang. Patrick deWitt wrote this. And both novels feel a little like a Wes Anderson movie.

“There’s a species in this book that is definitely a muscular, bipedal capybara, and I don’t hate it.”

“There’s a really nice cover from this set of McGraw in the rain. That’s why this one’s a 5. “

“There’s a promising start and end, but the bulk of it isn’t as hot. Here’s what’s weird: Peter Parker is really well-written in the beginning

“There’s a perfect summary of this series in this volume: “You got a gun, an’ a hundred bullets, but then…then ya just drone on about

“There’s a lot to this book. It’s a great one for people who are familiar with Batman, in general. As a concept. But maybe aren’t

“There’s a lot to say about this one, so buckle up. This is the die-cut book, the one where most of the words are literally

“There’s a good and a bad to this. The good is that at least Batman was punching people in this one. There was a good

“There’s a genius to setting a book in bookstores and on an author tour. Bookstores and authors consume a lot of books. Built in audience.

“There were three main problems with this book. 1. It kinda jumps around to different times and events, which makes it hard to get in

“There was a basket of heads, but it could’ve been fuller of heads. I think a good 2-3 more heads would’ve fit in that basket.

“There is not much more joyful in the world of comics than a Spider-Man/Human Torch team-up. And that’s what we get. The next-best is probably

“There is a very short list of people you absolutely do not want to fuck with. Jon Krakauer is one of those people. Because if

“There are two wolves inside every person, I hear. I think one is like a wolf that eats garbage and has no pride, and the

“There are two things I like when it comes to cartoon eyes, and this book does one of them: 1. Eyes that are angry for

“There are two people in most relationships:There’s the person who is awakened by the noise downstairs.And there’s the person who has to go check it

“There are the two David Sedarises in this book. The first one is this bizarre individual who knows he’s bizarre and ridiculous. The one who

“There are some VERY underrated Batman artists doing cover work for these volumes. Norm Breyfogle, which sounds like a made up name but isn’t? Damn!”

“There are some good reasons that I keep persisting with this series. Basically, there are a lot of good ideas in here, stuff that I

“There are SO MANY weird/cool vehicles on the covers of these books and in the cover galleries that barely appear in the book. I wonder

“There are hummingbirds outside my window, and that’s more exciting than this book. Which isn’t a slam. It turns out that I find hummingbirds quite

“There are few kid’s books out there that I find legitimately funny. A lot of cute ones, sure. A lot that make me say, “Oh,

“There are about a million of these books out there. What bothers me is that, for the most part, it seems like the authors would

“There are a lot of other low-star reviews for this book from people who say they aren’t into dogs, and that seems a little unfair.

“Then he reviewed the THIRD volume in a row after it was clear he had nothing to say about the other volumes. This is the

“The woman with a snake in her eye is completely without reason and completely awesome. And who doesn’t want to walk around saying “Nabooti”? For

“The whole Life Story concept is a really good one: What if the superheroes aged in real time? F4 probably doesn’t slap as hard as

“The way to tell I’m sold on a book is that I finish a reading session, put my thumb in the book, and look to

“The Vision decides to live a normal human life, and so builds himself a family and moves to the suburbs. The writing was pretty great.

“The Ultimate Challenge:How do you write a book about a boring thing?Now, being kidnapped and held for ransom isn’t boring, and the story itself is

“The trials and challenges of John Lewis are very interesting, and I did feel like there were times we got to know him a bit

“The transition from the characters making lots of mistakes because they’re young and inexperienced to the characters making lots of mistakes because they make bad

“The trade felt a little disjointed. A few different art styles, plus some 6-page stories. Seriously, I think that you’re setting yourself up for a

“The titular visitor had this gizmo that was like a floating, glowing iPhone. And it also blasted people or disintegrated them or something. I’ve been

“The title story was pretty good, but some of the backups were excellent. The title story had a really good mix of supernatural and real

“The thing is, this probably could’ve been wrapped up in half the space, because you don’t really get anywhere with this, it’s just an opening

“The thing I liked most about this book is that it felt like it was coming from a place of understanding, but that expression was

“The stupidest part of me didn’t realize this was “paper girls” like “paperboys,” as in people who deliver newspapers. I kept saying it in my

“The Story:Assassin’s Creed meets 2016 Election fanfic, little steampunk flavor thrown in. It’s kind of messy. I didn’t really understand the different factions at play.

“The story was pretty weak. There were some good pieces of dialogue, but they didn’t feel like they had room to breathe. You’d get these

“The story is a little weird, a lot weird, and I don’t know if it holds together as a dystopia or an anti-religious thing. But

“The stories are so-so, but the illustrations are great as ever. I wrote a whole thing about the replacements: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-18-most-egregious-art-replacements-from-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark There was a section in

“The squirrel really did save practically everybody, minus a few people he hit with a car. Also somehow the finish date went straight from Kindle

“The Sisters Brothers is so perfect and wonderful that I can’t imagine picking up another book for a while. There’s just no point. Okay, it’s

“The setup of this is hilarious. We’ve got Koshchei and Hellboy in a bar in hell, and K. keeps telling Hellboy how he ended up

“The question on everyone’s mind, will Bryan Lee O’Malley’s follow-up to ‘Scott Pilgrim’ be a case of sophomore slump? Short answer, No. Because this is

“The prologue of this book has some truly excellent, fast-paced writing that has a real southern gothic feel, a real sense of darkness beneath the

“The premise of this is a winner. Two comedy writers, off work for the time between seasons, decide to have a race around the world.

“The premise of the book, in a nutshell, or should I say a Koopa Shell!? (kill me) is that compared to games, reality is broken.

“The premise is pretty good. A guy is driving his daughter home from school, and as they head into the neighborhood they come across a

“The premise is good, but this is a butt ugly book. I use the phrase “butt ugly” because it feels very 90’s, which is how

“The premise is good, but that’s pretty much the beginning and end. The difference between a good SNL sketch and a bad one: A bad

“The premise is aight, but I think the book is a little overlong. Is that a Foo Fighters song? Overlong? No, wait, that’s Everlong. Why

“The premise is a good one, but…think of this like a heist movie.In a heist movie, how far in should we have our team assembled

“The premise here is pretty great. The Fantastic Four is about to go off into some other universe or some such nonsense, and FOR ONCE

“The posters are dope, but the essays range from pretty good to Jesus Christ, Get Over Yourself. “Actually, these African artists are a like like

“The parts that I liked, I liked. The parts that were not so great were…not so great. The issue is that there was a really

“The other day I was looking at rejected vanity plate requests for Colorado. They were pretty hilarious, although there are some weird things. For example,

“The other day I was looking at children’s books and thinking, “Hey, that would be a good way to learn some shit that I’m embarrassingly

“The other day I was leaving the gymnasium, and I dropped my water bottle. My instincts were good enough that I managed to catch it

“The only problem is that the jokes come so fast and furious (2 fast, 2 furious even) that you miss some. There’s just too much

“The only flaw in this story, really, is that even if a pizza tree were evil…I’d let it ride. I mean, how evil does a

“The NFL is a tax-exempt organization. Let’s just begin there before we get any deeper into this. Whether or not you would walk into this

“The New Yorker cartoons were aight, but Pete was here for the stories like the squirt gun full of pee. If this book had been

“The most offensive I’ve ever been to myself.”

“The more you learn about your heroes, the worse it is. I know this probably seems like complete non-sequiter in this space, and it almost

“The minute I finished this I was sure what I wanted to say about it. Then another minute went by and I thought, “Wait a

“The mind-blowing thing about this collection, it’s a perfect sample for the whole “everything old is new again” thing that happens in comics. Can we

“The marketing for this is weird, because it feels like it’s playing at “What if SUPERMAN tried to solve society’s ills?” kind of thing, but

“The longest story about the sexbot was pretty good. The rest was kind of a slice-of-life thing, and it felt like none of the stories

“The kills of horror, the thrills of…well, nothing super thrilling. This one was kind of tough to read because you’ve got a guy with multiple

“The irony of people giving this book a low rating, this book being pages 2000-3000 of a series that’s kind of about how people wasted

“The incredible story of Kevin Mitnick, hacker extraordinaire. A truly fascinating book, both in the narrative and the technical details, Mitnick will have a lot

“The illustrations are great. Although it should be noted, the book gets its title because the monsters were all originally drawn on sticky notes, not

“The highs were high, and some of the humor was super excellent. There was a little overuse of a joke type that I feel like

“The hardest part about explaining this book is using the right words. The main character is born…well, this is what I’m talking about. Deformed? Disfigured?

“The great ones are great, the not great ones are a little tedious. I’ve been on this quest to read a bunch of the books

“The Goon is always great. This one had a particularly funny send-up of the gimmicks that company-owned comics will try to sell books, an answer

“The Good: The drawing is really great. The characters have good weight to them, and the figures are realistic (although idealized) without losing their cartoon-y

“The future’s so bright, I gotta wear a jumpsuit. Which, according to this book published in 1972, will allow me to match everyone else in

“The following elements are involved in this book: a severed limb, a diamond heist, a mid-air collision between two airplanes, and a mummified corpse. Wouldn’t

“The Flash only works when you don’t think about it too hard. You can’t really read faster than the speed of light because doesn’t light

“The Flaming Carrot is a man who sat and read 5,000 comics back to back and got brain damage. And became a hero. Of sorts.

“The first volume of this was good, and the storytelling was really interesting and different for comics. But this one just hits it out of

“The first volume in this series started out pretty good. We have the Fantastic Four, minus Human Torch, plus Spider-Man. We also have a bunch

“The first volume feels kind of skippable, but the second picks up the pace and really gets the story going. You know what I really

“The first third was a blast. Then it gets more maudlin. It was still a good book, but it started with such a bang that

“The first page is great. Horrifying, but great. And then I was confused as all fuck for a while. The thing is, the story bounces

“The first half, maybe even two thirds, were lots of fun. Sorta fell apart at the end for me though. It was a big build

“The first half, before the stuff happens, is weird and oddly hard to read. It’s disjointed somehow. Like you’re thrown into the story as it’s

“The first few issues were great. It’s totally different from the movie, tonally. The mask kind of turns people into an ultraviolent cartoon character in

“The first 4 pages might be my all-time favorite Wolverine pages. Well, barring, “Now it’s MY turn!” We get this cold open, and then a

“The Fantastic Four are like the DC universe characters that just by chance are in the Marvel U. By that I mean: I never know

“The end of the series? Already? The hell? The shit? The fuck? Well, it all wraps up nicely. Reality is warped just enough. I wasn’t

“The dumbest-ass thing you could do is read a review of this instead of reading it. It takes like 5 minutes. Figure it out for

“The drawings are nice. Especially the people, which are as interesting as the monsters. I guess I didn’t pay attention, because I didn’t realize that

“The dialogue is still great. That I likes. The art is still a little loosey-goosey. If Kamala is always changing shape, I need a good