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“Really good re-imagining of the Batman origin. Actually, more than anything, it turns Alfred into a real dude, which might only SOUND exciting for fanboys

“Reading a lot of hate on this book, which is surprising. I think it treads somewhat similar territory to World War Z, a shadow that

“Read this with the right frame of mind and you’ll be delighted. Is this a hardcore, realistic Batman? No. Is this a Batman who fights,

“Read this one for the art. Fun, dynamic. The characters have a distinct style, and it’s nice to see something so stylized come from a

“Read this if you’ve never read a Batman origin, because it’s really good. But who the hell hasn’t read a Batman origin story? It’s a

“Read a bunch of Deadpool this weekend and figured I’d mostly talk about the volume I enjoyed the most (although 8 was also pretty durn

“Quite a lot of story gets in the way of the silliness. I hate when story disrupts jokes, silliness, and other things that are more

“Question based on reading this book: It’s still en vogue to depict a fat, gluttonous king. Do you think the body positivity things will make

“Put my last quarter on, I’ll play Oblivion Song. How’s that for a Jimmy Eat World/Robert Kirkman mash-up? For something no one ever wanted, including

“Proud to announce my a new Kindle book: Conntra: Wads of Power Yes, our heroes kick some ass, then do some other stuff with some

“Prospero is trapped on an island, which may or may not be a much older Genosha, hard to tell. In order to make his escape

“Probably should have read this one before the other one because it’s the entire origin story. But you know what? Maybe it’s better to just

“Probably read too many issues of this series today, and now I feel like this is some kind of conspiracy, like people read this book

“Pretty okay. I have to say, when are we going to learn that we can’t just create humanoid beings, enslave them, and then be surprised

“Pretty good, pretty wacky, pretty bloody. The weirdest part was probably when it seemed like kirkman was writing in this little spiel about how female

“Pretty good, pretty interesting, though the opening and closing sections were more up my alley than some of the middle. I do take issue with

“Pretty good, nice to look at, fantasy-ish book where a kid has to adventure through a forest. I have this series of jokes I call

“Pretty good book, quick read, all that. The main thing I wanted to talk about is time travel because I really do want to talk

“Pretty forgettable, pretty boring stuff. Also, this is the kinda book where it takes place in Rape City, USA, where everyone with a Y chromosome

“Pretty decent manga as well. The story has a LITTLE more of that manic manga feel to it where sometimes I feel like there’s a

“Pretty basic feminism stuff with pictures of an orc or a lady laying on a couch. I do take issue with one particular point in

“Preposterous and great. Here’s the deal: This weird octopus creature guy blew the moon apart, then said that he would do the same to Earth

“Pickens County, which is real, seems to be a certain kind of county. I’ll let you guess, reader: A) UrbanB) Hillbilly Just based on name

“Philip K. Dick. The Pluses:-Tons of great ideas.-Still mined for movies on the regular.-One of the better beards. The Minuses:-Prose a little weak.-Dialogue downright tough.

“Pete’s Overly-Detailed Explanation of Why He Doesn’t Love Saga, Which Nobody Asked For Part II: The Grossening There’s a thing Saga does that I don’t

“Pete’s Overly-Detailed Explanation of Why He Doesn’t Love Saga, Which Nobody Asked For Part 3 I don’t think I’ve ever experienced having super mechanical sex

“Pete’s Hot Take:Sword fights are boring. It wasn’t until Stallone’s Bullet to the Head that I saw a movie brave enough to have an ax

“Pete, what did you expect? Much like Archie vs. Predator or the time Archie was hunted by The Punisher, I guess I expected a mayhem-filled,

“Pete just thought he might as well go ahead and read something that would get him all misty-eyed on a depressing Sunday afternoon. Mission: Accomplished.

“Pete For The Defense: Your honor, we all know that the lookout is the job of the person who least wants to be involved in

“Paul stories are always pretty darn good. I can appreciate them. They really are underrated in terms of being in the mix with something like

“Patrick deWitt just doesn’t fuck up. Again, he’s written a book with a super unlikable character, this time our main character. And made him sorta

“Pains me to say I’m quitting this one. Sorry, I’m about halfway and don’t know what the fuck is going on. There’s a guy who’s

“Other Garth Ennis books (like The Boys or Hitman) do a better job covering the same sort of shock value superhero material. It’s a little

“Oof. What a letdown. After reading issue one of all the new relaunched DC 52 titles, I came away very excited about the Flash. The

“One, I like that this book proves, scientifically, probably empirically if I know that word well enough to use it, that spiders take pleasure in

“One star. Did not like it. It’s a little self-indulgent. And it made me hungry for pizza when I made it, and all I had

“One of those books where the art makes it hard to know what’s going on. I stared at a few panels trying to decipher the

“One of the things about Siken’s previous collection, Crush, that I really liked was that the language was fairly plain. The concepts were big, things

“One of the great things about a world that has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is that it’s not unreasonable, in that world, to also have

“One of the great examples of a book that you probably shouldn’t read in school. I would’ve hated this if I had to read it

“One of the first things I remember hearing about online was a video that was a compilation of Dahmer’s perp walk, trial, other footage, all

“One of my favorite things about Chuck Klosterman is that when he has a new book come out, he usually appears on a handful of

“One of Jeff’s earliest published works, and it’s bleak as hell. I would’ve loved it 10 years ago. Maybe now I don’t have the stomach

“One of Hinton’s longest and craziest. Where to begin? Imagine Star Trek, but the ships are piloted by asshole 5 year-olds who sit in those

“One day Spider-Man wakes up and discovers that ALL residents of Manhattan have spider powers. I kid you not. In fact, their spider powers are

“Once you get to the end you realize not much happened. A thing would happen, then its opposite would happen. Something would wind up, then

“Once the scene was set, I got into it. The anecdotes were good, and it was kinda a mix between Harvey Pekar and Bukowski if

“Once I got a love note from someone that describes what happened with this book. Well, not a love note. A former love note? A

“On one hand, MFA programs are definitely a big circle jerk. On the other, you DO get jerked off when you’re in a circle jerk,

“On one hand, it’s sort of fun that these characters grow up and everything. On the other, watching a character become a suburban dad isn’t

“On one hand, I sort of wish Superman’s gay love interest guy was more interesting. On the other hand, when I was 17, I’m 100%

“OLDEST trick in the book of comic books (the comic book?): In the 80’s, someone hit on the idea of making any new X-Men that

“Old Man Logan is a lot more effective than Old Man Pete. I’ll say that much. Mark Millar, man, when he’s on, he’s on. And

“Okay, wait. I just saw a review for this that was hidden because it contains spoilers. Having read the book, I don’t know how you

“Okay, this was a book club’s holiday pick for an uplifting story. They didn’t like my pick from last year, David Sedaris’ Holidays on Ice

“Okay, this rating is based on the speech more than the book (you can view it here: http://vimeo.com/42372767 It’s really incredible, very inspirational while also

“Okay, this is overall a pretty amazing story.Basically this dude spent his whole childhood in a prison camp for a decade for no real reason.

“Okay, this is a review for the first four volumes of the series, as a whole. There are some great points. We see a lot

“Okay, the premise of this book might sound a little cheesy. Let’s face it, we live in a world where some dopey 4 year-old gets

“Okay, so in this book, there’s an oil crisis. I apparently think the Earth has “given up” and that’s why there’s no more oil. So

“Okay, say it with me:Being a killer who is disguised as a babe/housewife is not to be confused with a personality. The first half to

“Okay, okay. I’ve been to this hotel, and here’s what I’ve got to say: They should really get on board with the haunted stuff a

“Okay, not my favorite Chuck Palahniuk book. I’m a pretty big fan, read ALL of his books and have seen him speak twice, which is

“Okay, I read this quite a number of years ago. I didn’t review it at all because I didn’t have much good to say about

“Okay, I read this book that I wrote. OUT LOUD. And I recorded it, which means you can hear me read it. OUT LOUD. That’s

“Okay, I just checked volume 6, and it has more reviews than volume 5. How does this make any sense? All I can come up

“Okay, I figured I had a decent chance on this one. Unlike seeking the yeti or getting along with martians, running track is something I’ve

“Okay, finished! This has been an 18-year journey for me. Which is crazy. But here we are, at the end! I have some thoughts. 1.

“Okay, come on, Kushan emperor. Did you really think that was going to work? Guts didn’t follow Griffith, who he has a huge crush on,

“Okay, before getting too far into reading this, understand that I only read this book because it was required of me for a book club.

“Okay, a little Scooby-Doo-y. There’s a derelict amusement park and a shadowy figure who is being bothered by these damn meddling teens. But overall I

“Okay, a leeeetle upper class/lower class sort of message-y-ness that I could do without, but whatever, not a huge deal, it’s made up for by

“Okay, 3 volumes in, I know what’s going on:There’s like constant DC Crossover nonsense happening in the new 52, and without reading all the books,

“Ohhhhh, this was actually pretty good. Quick premise summary: There are a bunch of Earths. Things got screwed up somewhere, so Earths are basically crashing

“Oh, shit. We have a problem.I just read that Kentaro Miura died before finishing Berserk.Shit. SHIT.Okay, then I read that a close friend is planning

“Oh, Sam Patch, you old-timey anacronism! Sam Patch was a “Daredevil Jumper,” as stated in the title, but after reading, I can’t say I totally

“Oh, jaysis. Not good. Not good. Okay, so I thought this was gonna be more like Afterlife With Archie, or even the monthly, more recent

“Oh, geez. This one is where things get just a bit more confusing and non-linear. I’ve enjoyed that this series has managed to tell a

“Oh, David Thorne. You give trolls a good name. For those who are unfamiliar, David Thorne is in the business of giving people the business.

“Oh, Catwoman! Apparently at this point the world thought Selina Kyle was dead and that she was pushed off a roof by Catwoman. I don’t

“Oh man. Well, this is probably going to come off as a horrible comparison, but here we go. Reading this, the main character, it was

“Oh man, if you’re looking for a Black Panther comic book to read, I’d go with this one. Stuff happens, there’s excitement, and there’s just

“Oh man, if you like that over-the-top stuff from Marvel, that weird cosmic shit, this is your jam. A guy is created on a planet

“Oh man, good stuff, but I had to deduct a star for Princess. THE most annoying character. We definitely did not need her, I don’t

“Often said to be one of the best Superman stories ever, Red Son is the story of Superman reimagined in that he left Krypton just

“Of course, like a dummy, I read through some other GR reviews before I wrote mine. “some lgbt and poc characters might be nice…” Sigh…

“Of course it was good. Why wouldn’t it be? The only complaint I have about this book is that it caused a minor thing on

“Odd mixture. Western with a childhood flair. Very reminiscent of Calvin & Hobbes. Light violence and sideways mention of a brothel.”

“Number one, if you’re looking for a primer on making booze, look somewhere else. Okay, now that the drunken DIY’ers are out of the way

“Now THAT is a Punisher comic!”

“Nothing like a super speedster teaming up with a space cop and a detective chimpanzee to stop a guy with an enormous head and another

“Nothing like a good exorcism…to BORE me! This volume wasn’t quite as exciting as the last few. It felt like it relied on a lot

“Nothing brings out the cruelty of characters like a story of a prospecting town and the people who get taken there. What works in The

“Nothing beats the Warren Ellis book. That book MADE Moon Knight for me. “What are you supposed to be?”[billy club to the face]“The one you

“Not the most Amazing/Spectacular/Sensational/Astonishing Untold Tale in the intricate Web of Spider-Man titles. Ultimately. The whole thing makes for a very bizarre read. So we

“Not since whatever the last chapter of Goosebumps I read have I been left with such a cliffhanger! Seriously, RL Stine was like, “What if

“Not since “unobtanium” has a metal had such a silly name. But I bring you: Batmanium. The challenge with this one is that it is

“Not one that’s gonna blow your balls off, but it’s probably hard to do that with a vampire story at this point, right? Still, pretty

“Not my thing, poetry-wise. Although I go back and forth on the inclusion of modern elements like Skype in poems. It’s definitely my personal idiocy