Justice League #52 (DC Comics) Writer: Dan Jurgens Pencils: Tom Grummett First Impressions: The last issue of New-52 Justice League and it doesn’t even have anything to do with the Justice League. Or at least, that’s what I’m expecting. And it’s written by Dan Jurgens, who I don’t like. Alas, first impressions are not good. Here’s …
Clean Room #9 (Vertigo) Writer: Gail Simone Pencils: Jon Davis-Hunt First Impressions: Clean Room has been one of the trippiest, most bizarre comics to ever grace my box since the day #1 came out. Part sci-fi romp, part body-horror extravaganza, I find Clean Room hard to classify. Previously the entire story had been flipped on …
There was a moment when I finished this book in which all I could do was sit and stare at the last blank page. I was physically disturbed and awed into stillness. “Holy shit,” I said, somewhat to my husband, mostly just to say it. “This book…” I didn’t finish my sentence. I couldn’t. This …
In honor of Pride and to celebrate the diversity of gender and sexuality in the face of hate, here is a list of books with LGBTQIA characters. Most of these books are also intersectional with issues of class, race, and culture. I hope you find something that reflects your experience, and I hope you also …
I’ll say it: Genevieve Valentine is one of the best authors writing today. She has that spark, that je ne sais quoi that brings both reality and mythology to life on the page, even for the shortest of stories. Here are three. 1. “La Beaute Sans Vertu”: Nothing But Gold Can Stay Do you like …
This is not a light book. Ada Palmer has rewritten the whole history of the modern world and the onrushing future, according to philosophies both new and old, but deeply held and profoundly discussed regardless of their age. Questions of progress, of perfection, of right living. It’s heavy and at times perplexing. But all of …
Tile laying and city building games are common themes in board games. Personally, they are not a genre that gets me excited to play a board game. Quadropolis, from Days of Wonder, is a tile laying, city building game that makes me really excited to play board games. A game of Quadropolis is played over …
Lin wakes up in a pile of freshly murdered bodies, with a madman screeching overhead and an army on the way and magic all around and gems—which are different from Jewels—and magic threatening everyone sanity and oh my! There’s nothing wrong with dumping someone in the middle of a narrative, but it takes a judicious …
Hello! I’m back, once again, to give you my first impressions on an Anime that Transformation Sequence likely won’t have time to cover in full. As a reminder, what I consider a first impression of a show is watching the first three episodes. This gives the show time to introduce the world, the characters, the …
Continuing along the path that her first book, The Fire Sermon, laid out, Map of Bones is another measured elegy for a world in ruins. Atomic detonations blanketed the world in cold and ignorance, and the survivors learned to fear anything to do with the blasts. Technology. The past. Each other. A quirk of the …