Mike Campbell Posted December 9, 2024 Posted December 9, 2024 A recommendation in a discord discussion led to me starting The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. It took me a little bit to get going, with me just having too much other shit going on to really sit down and take it in. But, I finally got the chance over the weekend and holy hell I'm hooked!
JLSigman Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2024/2893648 So there's my year in books. Hit 75 of 75 for my own reading challenge as well, which seems to be a good number (48 Hoopla borrows plus almost 30 other books). Next year I definitely want to read the Osten Ard books by Tad Williams, and re-read some NK Jemisin, and maybe finally delve into Louise McMaster Bujold's sci fi stuff, and try to get through my mass market paperback Cadfael books, and so on.
twiztor Posted December 29, 2024 Posted December 29, 2024 On 12/29/2023 at 5:32 PM, twiztor said: by final count, i ended up reading 782 comics in 2023, blowing past my goal of 500. Reveal hidden contents vintage: Avengers #59-217 (+21 side/tie-in/crossover/annual issues) Captain America #109-266 (+6) Iron Man #9-155 (+2) Namor the Sub-Mariner #9-72 (+2) Super-Villain Team-Up #1-17 (+2) Fantastic Four #82-104 (+15) Champions #1-17 Black Panther #1-15 (+3) current: MiracleMan: the Silver Age #4-6 Nightwing #100-109 (+2) X-Men #13-29 (+24) X-Men Red #1-18 Immortal X-Men #1-18 (+11 (Sins of Sinister)) X-Men Legends #3-6 plus 25 random ass issues of whatever else. could be standalones, or unrelated one-shots, or some random mini series that i thought could be interesting. Goosebumps: last book i read was #37 Sherlock Holmes stories: currently at 63% read I read at least 625 comics in 2024, again beating my goal of 500. I didn't record as diligently as last year, so i had to do a bit of estimation to come up with this number. I went conservative, so i'm sure there are a good number of books that i forgot to count. In a reversal from last year, a huge chunk of these came in the last third of the year, as i was afraid i wouldn't hit my goal so pushed a bit harder. My Avengers/related read brings me up to early 1991, so approximately 10 years of these stories in the last 12 months. That kind of blows my mind. It also means 2025 will finish this chapter (i'm only reading up to the "Heroes Reborn" storyline) before i move to the next challenge. I'm undecided on what exactly that will be. Sticking with Marvel, probably either Fantastic 4 (+Inhumans) or Dr. Strange (+Defenders/Ghost Rider/related) or Cosmic (Captain Marvel/Silver Surfer/Adam Warlock/etc.) Open to suggestions. Spoiler Vintage: Avengers 173 (#218-333, Solo/Spotlight #1-40, West Coast #1-4, #1-71) Iron Man 133 (#156-268) Captain America 143 (#267-386) Namor 39 (Sub-Mariner #1-4, Saga of #1-12, Namor #1-14) Nick Fury 28 (vs. SHIELD #1-6, Agent of SHIELD #1-22) Black Panther 29 (v2 #1-4, MCP #13-37) plus a bunch of random stuff (Squadron Supreme #1-12, Wonder Man #1, Vision & Scarlet Witch v1 & v2, Damage Control v1 & v2, Hawkeye v1, Falcon v1) Modern: X-Men - Fall of the House of X (25+ issues) Nightwing 10 (#110-119, haven't started the new run yet) Goosebumps: last book i read was #43, The Beast From the East. It was fine but left me unmoved. i did meet my 'one every other month' goal for the year. This is getting more challenging, as my interest in the series has largely waned. But i won't be quitting and i will eventually get through the last book (#62). Sherlock Holmes stories: currently at 80%. i think i've finished off the full novels, leaving only the short stories. I hesitated on starting the novels because i had to both A) have the time to read it in one sitting, and B) be in the right mood. I would like to step this up and finish in 2025, but i don't know if i'll pull that off. We shall see. 1
odessasteps Posted December 29, 2024 Posted December 29, 2024 Funny, Matt and i were talking today and he said he may not have read any comics the whole year. Hard for me to count, since a. I bought a lot of dollar books and b. Read a lot or research, including an entire Absolute HC for a still not yet recorded podcast.
JLSigman Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Starting off the new year by reading Saladin Ahmed's Daredevil run, which has been collected. Interesting premise so far.
Cobra Commander Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Just finished up a book from the Christmas-time New Book season The Football 100 by 'The Athletic', which is similar to the Baseball 100 by Posnanski and is probably similar to the Basketball 100 (which was also written for the Athletic). The top 10 players, not in the order of placement are Spoiler Brady, Jim Brown, Butkus, Manning, Montana, Payton, Rice, LT, Unitas, Reggie White There's interesting stories. Each chapter is breezy enough that you can go through a few pages easily or go through 5 at a time. There's some work to include offensive linemen instead of just having the entire list be QBs/RBs/WRs. There is some representation for old players and also new-ish guys.
SirSmUgly Posted January 9 Posted January 9 (edited) Here's some stuff that I read in quick hits: Truman Capote, A Duke in his Domain: Capote spends a late night with Marlon Brando in his hotel room. Once you get past Capote's weird observations about Japanese women, it's a pretty compelling picture of how big-time acting really screws with the ability to define oneself and the shattering of one's identity when you're spending so much time inhabiting others. It also makes Brando look like a completely unserious person, which I sense that he kind of was despite his acting prowess. Susan Sonntag, On Camp: This is a series of two essays that attempt to define the concept of camp. It's just dense enough that I want to read through it again to make sure that I understand completely her specific definitional boundaries for calling something camp, though her overarching ideas about camp mostly make sense to me. Ralph Ellison, The Black Ball: So, after Ellison died having only published Invisible Man in his lifetime, his wife passed along a half-finished book (Juneteenth) and a bunch of short stories to his editor. Black Ball is a Penguin collection of four of those short stories. The first one in the collection, "Boy on a Train," gave me a good ol' "this child character's observations on life destroyed me" moment. You know how as a kid, you sometimes partially grasp some very adult-world truth and can speak about it poignantly even if you don't quite have the vocabulary or life experience to fully understand it? This story did that. Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: The day after reading "Boy on a Train," I read "Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarets." The main character's child in that did the same thing to me as the young protagonist in "Boy on a Train." These fictional kids going all Phoebe Caulfield on me is a lot right now, man. James Baldwin, Dark Days: This is a NO POLITICS zone, but basically Baldwin is the best political and social commentator of modern American times, and maybe of American times in general. I'll leave it at that. Betty Friedan, The Problem that Has No Name: NO POLITICS, but Friedan does an engaging job of laying out what should be the obvious fact that women, too, are subject to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name: NO POLITICS. I'd never read Achebe's non-fiction writing, only his fictional stuff. Reading the non-fictional commentary in this collection made me wish that I'd taken a class with him when he was teaching on the East Coast. Some people take to a professorial approach in their writing or speaking with aplomb, and he is one of them. Weirdly, I haven't read Arrow of God, which I think comes between the other two books in the trilogy, right? I need to get on that. Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Dang it, I have opinions about a lot of what I read that would trigger the NO POLITICS warning, now that I'm writing all this out. Anyway, this work is a collection of two different pieces. One is an op-ed from Berry, an evangelical environmentalist (they do exist - see the green theorists who center their theory in Biblical belief w/r/t humans being appointed by God to be the stewards of the earth). It explains why he won't be buying a computer, and it is a fascinating argument that, uh, I'll say is thoughtful in some spots and problematic in others. It was published in a popular U.S. publication, and this work publishes the op-ed responses from readers and then a follow-up article from Berry that responds to those responses. All I can say is that this is one of the most fun polemical pieces I've read in a while, and I'd encourage other people to read it just for the novelty of getting an underrepresented combined perspective on ecological concerns, the nature of work, and marriage and love all at once. George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism: NO POLITICS. It's a timely work to return to, though. Andy Warhol, Fame: I'm never sure how seriously to take Warhol, you know? A work like this makes me think that I shouldn't, but then I saw a piece of his art in which he reproduced a tacky American ad for a light-up Jesus and I thought it distilled a major part of the American essence down into one visual more concisely than almost anyone else could, so I'm on the fence about him. The right answer is probably that we contain multitudes, and it's okay to be unserious or a little flippant sometimes. Not all the time, though. Looking at you, Brando. Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon (Eds.), Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit: I've been looking for a video game-focused critical theory collection for a while now for various reasons. This is a strong selection of essays - lots of queer representation, too, which I enjoyed because the authors said some interesting things about using video games to explore their queerness that I never would have thought about for a second. If you enjoy the nexus of video games and 300-level critical theory classes, you'd like this (I adore both of those things, so it was perfect for me). Edited January 9 by SirSmUgly 2
odessasteps Posted January 9 Posted January 9 On 1/7/2025 at 2:45 PM, Cobra Commander said: Just finished up a book from the Christmas-time New Book season The Football 100 by 'The Athletic', which is similar to the Baseball 100 by Posnanski and is probably similar to the Basketball 100 (which was also written for the Athletic). The top 10 players, not in the order of placement are Hide contents Brady, Jim Brown, Butkus, Manning, Montana, Payton, Rice, LT, Unitas, Reggie White There's interesting stories. Each chapter is breezy enough that you can go through a few pages easily or go through 5 at a time. There's some work to include offensive linemen instead of just having the entire list be QBs/RBs/WRs. There is some representation for old players and also new-ish guys. That lost all its credibility as soon as saw who predictably was number one. 1
Cobra Commander Posted January 9 Posted January 9 (edited) 5 minutes ago, odessasteps said: That lost all its credibility as soon as saw who predictably was number one. welcome to the MVP rules of the QB having to be the MVP and Brady having won so many Super Bowls that they were picking him there Spoiler Deion Sanders being slotted one spot ahead of Barry Sanders was also a surprise, but I try to not fret specific placements in most of the list Edited January 9 by Cobra Commander
odessasteps Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Yeah, a sad mixture of QB as sports' main character syndrome and recency bias.
Mike Campbell Posted January 11 Posted January 11 My kiddo had her wisdom teeth out yesterday, so I figured it was the perfect chance to start something new. I literally got about a page in whenI got called to the back because she's a minor, so I had to be with her for the doctor to give the overview on the process. Then, they basically told me to go wait in the car. The wife called and after we talked, I got about two more words in before they came out and told me that she was all done. So, hopefully at somet point this weekend I'll be starting "The Thursday Murder Club" because I've heard great things about it. 1
SirSmUgly Posted January 11 Posted January 11 5 hours ago, Mike Campbell said: My kiddo had her wisdom teeth out yesterday, so I figured it was the perfect chance to start something new. I literally got about a page in whenI got called to the back because she's a minor, so I had to be with her for the doctor to give the overview on the process. Then, they basically told me to go wait in the car. The wife called and after we talked, I got about two more words in before they came out and told me that she was all done. So, hopefully at somet point this weekend I'll be starting "The Thursday Murder Club" because I've heard great things about it. I liked the first book. The second one was okay. I wish Richard Osman a lot of success, though. I'm a huge House of Games fan. And a fellow Fulham supporter, for that matter.
JLSigman Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Reading the new Daniel Johnson Transformers, and this is GOOD STUFF. As a completely unrepentant 80's kid, I can hear everyone's voices very clearly in this writing.
JLSigman Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Not sure where to post this, but there is a Variety article out (paywalled, but it can be accessed through other means) about the depths of Neil Gaiman's abuse of women. All the trigger warnings, for all the things; don't feel like you have to read it (I have not and will not). I have enjoyed some of his work, and not enjoyed some of his work, but I will never read him again.
odessasteps Posted January 13 Posted January 13 This will likely be a very hard case of separating art from the artist if peopIe can. I soured on him and his later work, but not for these reasons. Its also amazing he similarities to Warren Ellis.
SirSmUgly Posted January 15 Posted January 15 Here's a book I read a few months ago that I forgot to mention, but that might be of interest to people here: Nick de Semlyen, The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage - The focus of the book is Hollywood's shift toward ALL-AMERICAN BROS in action flicks that started with the semi-grounded sports flick Rocky in the late '70s and then tracks the evolution of that genre via its biggest stars from Stallone to Schwarzenegger to Seagal. It ends right at the point that The Last Action Hero is about to bomb in the face of competition from a bunch of CGI dinosaurs, marking the end of that era of American filmmaking as a massive force. I enjoyed this quite a bit; it's a quick read, and it crosses over a bit with other books that are at least partially situated in this time (I think Masters and Griffin's Hit & Run is a necessary read for people who love movies made in the U.S. between 1970 and 1995 or so, as an aside). I think how much similar reading you've done will determine how much new info you get from this book, but it's a fun-ass read either way. I also have Mike Medavoy's autobiography, which I need to power through. The writing has a very "'90s exec" style, if that makes sense. 1
SirSmUgly Posted January 15 Posted January 15 On 12/28/2024 at 4:44 PM, twiztor said: Goosebumps stuff Reveal hidden contents Vintage: Avengers 173 (#218-333, Solo/Spotlight #1-40, West Coast #1-4, #1-71) Iron Man 133 (#156-268) Captain America 143 (#267-386) Namor 39 (Sub-Mariner #1-4, Saga of #1-12, Namor #1-14) Nick Fury 28 (vs. SHIELD #1-6, Agent of SHIELD #1-22) Black Panther 29 (v2 #1-4, MCP #13-37) plus a bunch of random stuff (Squadron Supreme #1-12, Wonder Man #1, Vision & Scarlet Witch v1 & v2, Damage Control v1 & v2, Hawkeye v1, Falcon v1) Modern: X-Men - Fall of the House of X (25+ issues) Nightwing 10 (#110-119, haven't started the new run yet) Goosebumps: last book i read was #43, The Beast From the East. It was fine but left me unmoved. i did meet my 'one every other month' goal for the year. This is getting more challenging, as my interest in the series has largely waned. But i won't be quitting and i will eventually get through the last book (#62). I've been meaning to quote you for days now: Did you ever read Blogger Beware, where someone reviewed all the mainline Goosebumps book and a few of the offshoots? I am bummed that it's down and only accessible through Wayback, but here's the TV Tropes page for it anyway: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/BloggerBeware I had a sibling who was more into Goosebumps than I was, but I thought a couple of them were fun and had enjoyable twist endings: The Ghost Next Door, Be Careful What You Wish For... (with the classic cruel twist ending) and Let's Get Invisible! come to mind, and holy shit, I just realized that the latter's title was a slant-rhyming play on the song title "Let's Get Physical" as I typed that out. Catch me up: Which Goosebumps books do you actually think are good? The Beast From the East had a mediocre twist, but after about the first ten or fifteen books in the series, that was pretty much par for the course. Maybe Chicken Chicken was the last good twist ending IMO, so I'll be interested to see what you think when you get there.
twiztor Posted January 15 Posted January 15 (edited) 2 hours ago, SirSmUgly said: I've been meaning to quote you for days now: Did you ever read Blogger Beware, where someone reviewed all the mainline Goosebumps book and a few of the offshoots? I am bummed that it's down and only accessible through Wayback, but here's the TV Tropes page for it anyway: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/BloggerBeware I had a sibling who was more into Goosebumps than I was, but I thought a couple of them were fun and had enjoyable twist endings: The Ghost Next Door, Be Careful What You Wish For... (with the classic cruel twist ending) and Let's Get Invisible! come to mind, and holy shit, I just realized that the latter's title was a slant-rhyming play on the song title "Let's Get Physical" as I typed that out. Catch me up: Which Goosebumps books do you actually think are good? The Beast From the East had a mediocre twist, but after about the first ten or fifteen books in the series, that was pretty much par for the course. Maybe Chicken Chicken was the last good twist ending IMO, so I'll be interested to see what you think when you get there. i certainly had a Goosebumps phase when i was growing up, where i wanted to read all of them. But we didn't have much money, so i only owned 4 or 5 of them (the only one i distinctly remember owning was "Shocker on Shock Street"). This is the first i'm hearing of Blogger Beware, and in fact until a couple years ago i didn't even know there was an entire fandom around Goosebumps- i always just viewed it as a personal nostalgic memory. But i also tend to keep myself closed-off from those kind of things until i'm extremely well versed myself (mostly to avoid spoilers, or prejudices). I couldn't tell you which stories are the most highly regarded, which are derided, and which/if any are considered "hidden gems". As for which of the books I think are good? the "Night of the Living Dummy" stories are in the top tier. I've enjoyed both "Say Cheese and Die" books, "One Day at Horrorland", and "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb". As an avid comic reader, "Attack of the Mutant" was enjoyable for the references sprinkled throughout. But now for the real question. the patented twist ending. I have a hard time judging them. I'm very much an analyzer when i digest stories, whether that be books, or movies, or people reviewing 25 year old Nitros. Plus i'm north of 40 now. Almost every time, i can see the twist coming, or at least guess what it's going to be by halfway through the book. This has led to me very much enjoying the Sherlock Holmes stories, where i'm trying to piece the puzzle together along with the titular detective, but tends to mean that most of the Goosebumps books leave me wanting. And that's not to say that they're bad. Just that they aren't meant for someone like me, and that's OK. I LOVED them when i was a kid. (Chicken Chicken is #53 so i'm at least a year away from that one.) Edited January 15 by twiztor 1
Curt McGirt Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I was already reading King, Poe, and Lovecraft when Goosebumps became a thing, and I was in their exact age range. I give praise to Stein for introducing kids to horror but it just was never my thing. (I... don't know why I'm saying that? Maybe it's just that I've never understood why everyone loves them so much even though there are so many very clear reasons.) 6 hours ago, SirSmUgly said: Nick de Semlyen, The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage Read this last year too! Really good stuff. I never knew how egotistical Stallone was, how level-headed Arnold was, how smart Dolph was, or that Steven Seagal was/is a fucking sexual predator. 1
SirSmUgly Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I first read Poe when I was eight or nine; it was the Illustrated Classics version with four stories. After that, I figured I wanted to read more Poe, so I went to the library and plowed through a collection. I will say that everyone's favorite Poe is horror or thriller-type stuff, like "Amontillado" or "Tell-Tale" or "Usher." I do like that stuff (especially Amontillado), but I like Poe's mystery writing even more (and his poetry, too, for that matter). Like, my favorite Poe story is "The Gold-Bug." He was a killer mystery writer. Not my favorite mystery writer - that would be Wilkie Collins - but not far off. 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said: Read this last year too! Really good stuff. I never knew how egotistical Stallone was, how level-headed Arnold was, how smart Dolph was, or that Steven Seagal was/is a fucking sexual predator. I feel that Stallone's egotism is like Brando's to some degree; it's a front for deep insecurity. But unlike Brando, I think Sly has some substance and genuine artistic aspirations that he put to the side to keep his career going with popular '80s action gigs. Like, he's not a bad modern painter! If Dolph Lundgren and Grace Jones had a kid together, that kid would currently be God Emperor of Planet Earth. I did know about what a piece of shit Seagal was (even before his exploits as a promoter of Putin Russia). This book pretty much verifies that Seagal's public persona matches who he actually is - a dangerous, predatory lunatic with the veneer of a goofy, somewhat dense, but ultimately harmless clown.
zendragon Posted January 16 Posted January 16 There's that SNL story where Segal kept pitching a sketch about a Dr who hypnotizes a patient to get her to have sex with him
Cobra Commander Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Just finished Pipeline to the Pros: How D3, Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA by Ben Kaplan and Danny Parkins. For the sake of disclosure, Parkins was on sports talk radio in my area (KC) for several years in the mid-2010s so I had the chance to talk with him back then. So the purchase was partly because it was someone I knew who had co-written a book but not entirely and it's an interesting book. The book goes over the stories of people like Bill Fitch, Carl Scheer, Norm Sonju, Mike Fratello, Richie Adubato, Bob Whitsitt, Garry St. Jean, Donn Nelson, Jeff and Stan Van Gundy, Tom Thibodeau, Stan Clifford, Gregg Popovich (who went to Air Force but coached at D3), Will Hardy, Sam Presti, John Hammond, Frank Vogel, Brad Stevens, Mike Budenholzer, Chris Finch, Leon Rose, Duncan Robinson, Koby Altman, and a structure of telling part of the story of Andrew Olson at the start of chapters. Basically the story of guys who had played for Division 3 small colleges and how they got into the NBA and began to establish themselves and open the door for other people who played at D3 schools, with the added storyline of the changeover in NBA front offices from hiring former players to hiring more analytical types and how that opens the doors to hire guys who played D3 basketball to become coaches and executives in the league as ownership also switches over to wanting more of an analytical approach, with some things written about the power structures in the Association and guys who hasn't played at a high level proving themselves to become coaches/executives at the high levels. So it's an interesting look at the networking of guys who went to NESCAC schools in the northeast and other small schools and how they've become influential in the NBA. 13 chapters, 240 pages. 2
Cobra Commander Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Just finished The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman. The book leans on the diaries of Benjamin Brown French, a former clerk of the US House in the 1840s to tell the story of violence in Congress from the 1830s up until the Civil War. Including pages about the fatal duel between two members of Congress (Cilley/Graves), the Gag Rule which attempted to stifle discussion of slavery, former President John Quincy Adams who was a member of the House post-Presidency and challenged the restrictions, with Southerners declining to duel or attack him due to his age and his status as a former President. It goes through the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the caning of Charles Sumner as the sides scuffled more and more and Northern members of Congress began to more aggressively respond to Southern bullying. During this time, French went from being an insider that supported Democrats, including his friend Franklin Pierce to a Republican who fell out with Pierce and voiced the support for saving the Union and standing up for the North against the South. The epilogue goes through the years between the start of the Cvil War and French's death in 1870. There's a certain amount of the book that is a little bit familiar, but in a different sense. There's the concept that dueling 'prevented' violence because people would not say certain things about others to prevent being challenged to a duel. There's Congressmen arming themselves on the House Floor just in case. There's accounts of assaults that went on over all this time. There's a reminder that the Sacking of Lawrence KS happened a day before Sumner was caned. There's Preston Brooks, fresh off of caning Charles Sumner, getting goaded into challenging Anson Burlingame into a duel, only for Brooks to decline to duel Burlingame with rifles at Niagara Falls. Brooks would be dead at 37 within a year of caning Sumner due to a case of the Croup. Brooks was aided by Laurence Keitt, who ended up a part of a large Congressional brawl in 1858 where he insisted that Galusha Grow didn't knock him down with a punch on the floor of the House. Keitt would end up dead at the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 (which was also coincidentally the first time he saw combat in the field). Also there's the note about how an anti-dueling law, passed after Cilley/Graves, motivated Brooks to just assault Sumner at his desk on the Senate floor since the penalty for that was lighter than publicly challenging him to a duel. I don't think this book purchase can match me getting a "September 1918" book about the influenza outbreak at Christmas 2019 and reading that in early 2020. But this is a book account of Congress before the Civil War where Southerners defending slavery were running into a more strident group of Northerners who were more willing to fight back in a world where telegraphs meant that news was reported quicker than it had been and that sensationalism was also making things more tense between the sides. French's diary was leaned on because it's events from the 1830s/40s/50s and the newspapers of that time would gloss over some matters since the papers were beholden to Congress and parties, but by the 1850s you had more media emerging and more coverage of Congress being a drunken fight club. There's also early notes about things like how pre-National bank, someone from New Hampshire could have state-issued currency that wouldn't be good in another part of the country. 7 Chapters and an introduction over 264 pages, followed by a 22 page epilogue, there's 102 page long notes section that I didn't read. 3 1
JLSigman Posted January 29 Posted January 29 On 1/12/2025 at 2:29 PM, JLSigman said: Reading the new Daniel Johnson Transformers, and this is GOOD STUFF. As a completely unrepentant 80's kid, I can hear everyone's voices very clearly in this writing. Read the second volume, and there are SO many references to the old cartoon series, but none of them feel forced. This dude gets it.
jaedmc Posted January 29 Posted January 29 31 minutes ago, JLSigman said: Read the second volume, and there are SO many references to the old cartoon series, but none of them feel forced. This dude gets it. I've got every issue of the run so far and it's greeeeeeat. 1
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