I haven't done a film round-up in a while and I actually watched quite a few films in August. Technically I'm posting this a day early, but oh well.

Swordfish

I watched this because it was on broadcast TV and they blurred out Halle Berry's topless scene which was so funny because there was also a scene with her in a bikini where she was only barely naked and they didn't blur that. Also Hugh Jackman got to act out typing very dramatically and I enjoyed that, but the movie itself was ehh.

The Last Boy Scout

Theoretically a sports movie, this was another one I watched on broadcast TV. I was only half paying attention because I was doing laundry.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

My favorite of the MCU Spider-Man movies. Spider-Man is self-isolating, lonely, depressed, upholding the industrial prison complex, shouldering every burden, and fighting for his life all while going through spider-puberty. I get scared by too many side characters brought into an MCU movie because so often it feels like they're being shoehorned in, but the script was tight enough that they all worked well.

Oklahoma Crude

Another movie I saw on TV but finally a winner, because I thought this movie was so funny. In 1913, a woman used to being on her own begrudgingly ends up with a hobo working for her after her father insists she needs help on her oil rig, and then they have to fight against an oil company trying to drive her off her land. I tried to find clips of this movie to link to but there's tragically few on YouTube, so you'll just have to trust me. There's a scene where Mason (the hobo) sneaks into the oil company's camp to steal food because they're besieging the

The Sheep Detectives

A second Hugh Jackman has hit the timeline. I really like this! I loved the sheep voice acting, it was all really good. Also this kicked off my fascination with Nicholas Galitzine and did inform two of the other movies I watched this month. Blond and pretty and dumb is my type and I'm not ashamed of it.

The Idea of You

Honestly I loved this. Anne Hathaway is stunning in everything she's in, and the story was really driven by Solène and her complicated feelings around having a romance with a much younger man. Nicholas Galitzine's character was subtle and clearly thought out but not the emotional focus point.

1917

Oh god I'm never going to be able to get this movie out of my mind. This was recommended to me by a Discord friend because I was craving a war movie and it did not disappoint. The ceaseless walking! The heroism that is ultimately fruitless! The futility of it all!

Red, White & Royal Blue

Another Nicholas Galitzine pull, I thought it was oddly paced at first but then once I got used to it, I found the whole story to be very charming. Just don't worry too much about how the politics of it all works, because this film isn't super interested in exploring that beyond using it as a pressure point for the plot.

The End of Oak Street

Good old-fashioned fun! Have you ever wanted to see Anne Hathaway shoot at dinosaurs with a shotgun? Now you can! Thank god this movie doesn't take itself too seriously and thank god for that.

Drive Back Home

Checked this out from the new shelf at my local library and holy cow I forgot how good of an actor Alan Cumming is because I haven't seen him in anything lately. It's your typical road trip movie, as a man travels to Toronto to get his brother out of jail and take him back to New Brunswick after he's arrested for having sex with a man in a public park. It shifts between funny and sad, loving and traumatizing, and I think mostly sticks the landing with only a few wobbles.

Current Mood: peaceful

My reading goals for the month are:

Finish the City of Thieves audiobook. I started it a few months ago and ran out of time and it auto-returned to my e-library, but I placed a hold and checked it out again. I'm 68% of the way through it.
Read 12 comic issues. I've once again been neglecting my issues. I buy them, excited to read, and then I get home and I don't read them.
Read 4 magazines. My library offers magazine issues and I want to take advantage of that. Runner's World, Wired, Poetry, The New Yorker, Bon Appétit, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, I want to check at least a couple of them out
Read one non-fiction book. I'm thinking maybe something about French history?

Isola Vol. 2

I remain confused about the plot; the art is so beautiful, and the world that the characters exist in is fascinating, but context is missing and I found myself constantly flipping back a page to see if I missed something. The characters were doing a lot of heavy lifting for me; a tragic lesbian story about a queen and her knight is very compelling, and I was sad to see that this second volume was the last one, so I won't be getting any resolution to this story unfortunately. Sad!

Current Mood: peaceful

The Fox: Freak Magnet

I wanted to like this so much. The Fox, aka Paul Patton, has a terrible habit of getting himself in trouble, hence the name of the book; freak magnet. Paul is a Spider Man-esque character with Paul's "freak magnet" status reminiscient of Peter's "Parker luck" but we never get any time to fall in love with Paul and why he does what he does, so it's just a little too much of Paul whining. He gets transported away to another world and continually talks about how much he misses his wife, but we barely got any time with him and his wife to see why he would want to return to her, so she is largely an object of Paul's desire to return home, and not a character with her own thoughts and motivations.

Also questionable was the choice to have three characters work together with the Fox; one a German Nazi, one a Japanese imperialist, and one a walking American propaganda symbol. Now, I'm not opposed to this kind of plot, but what irks me is that the Nazi is specifically stated as defecting from the Axis powers to the Allied cause, but the Japanese character is not, and the American character, despite mentioning that they'd all been brainwashed into staunch nationalism by their respective countries, also shows no criticism of his government. But fear not! They're all friends in the modern era (because the Fox was zapped back into WWII instead of his own time in the 2010's). I just needed more character development to enjoy this ending.

I'm questioning who this was for. The Fox, She-Fox, the Shield, and other characters in this book were based on characters originally published in the 1940's, (The Shield, according to my very surface-level research [aka Wikipedia] predates Captain America), but I didn't think this was a very good intoduction to the characters for new fans, and I don't think this could have been a satisfying story for existing fans, though maybe I'm wrong.

I thought that the plot was sci-fi and fantastical, wacky in that way older comics are, with plots that are slightly ridiculous that you just have to accept, and I really enjoyed that! The art of the Fox, flipping and fighting his way through the story, was cartoonish and matched the tone of the story. Paul Patton Jr (aka the Fox) had an unobjectionable personality and made enough humorous quips that he was easy to like. I think this needed a little more character development to feel connected with the characters and the story.

Current Mood: peaceful

Read in October

Lick by Kylie Scott
Play by Kylie Scott
Lead by Kylie Scott
Bridging the Silence by Amy Kaybach
Deep by Kylie Scott
Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies by Marv Wolfman
Blending Chords by Amy Kaybach
Chaser by Kylie Scott
Twist by Kylie Scott
Dirty by Kylie Scott
Dear Enemy by Kristen Callihan
Astro City Metrobook, Vol. 1 by Kurt Busiek
Alias, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo

Currently Reading

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly (audiobook read by the author)
The Fox: Freak Magnet by Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel
Isola Volume 2 by Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audiobook read by the author)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
The New Warriors Omnibus, Vol. 1

Goodreads Fall Challenge

2025's final achievement season!

Community Picks: 141 Dark Academia Books for Fall Reading
Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo for Hispanic Heritage: 108 Books to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Spine Tinglers: Ten Years of Horror Hits to Read This October
Heart-Warmers: 117 Cozy Books for Fall Reading
Fiction Faves: Read 80 of the Past Decade's Very Popular Fiction
(Reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates for) Memorable Memoirs: Readers' 99 Most Popular Memoirs of the Past 10 Years
Native Voices: Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Bite-Size Books: 100 Very Short Books to Help You Finish Your 2025 Reading Challenge
Mystery Category: To be revealed 11/11/2025

The Storygraph Genre Challenge 2025

Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics by Margaret Stohl with Jeanine Schaeffer and Judith Stephens for Nonfiction about visual art or an artist
Historical fiction set outside of the UK, US, or Canada
An essay collection by a disabled author
Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo for A children's book published after 2020 by an author of colour
A nonfiction book by or about a sports personality
A graphic novel by a woman or nonbinary person
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale for A poetry collection centred around nature
A literary or contemporary novel in translation
A book about video games
(Hold on Black Flame by Gretchen Felker Martin for) Queer horror

Current Mood: accomplished

I suppose I could wait until the end of the month to post this and make it an August & September reading roundup, but I want to post it now and I make the rules, so!

( Read more... )

Current Mood: accomplished

DC Comics took action against Gretchen Felker Martin, unjustly firing her; now I am taking action against DC Comics, in the only way that I, a lone consumer, can: by cancelling my subscriptions for DC Comics books.

( Read more... )

TL;DR: DC's bigotry and transphobia has led me to cancel purchasing comics from the publisher; additionally the celebratory attitude from people in the DC Comics fandom towards the cancellation of Red Hood has made me reconsider my presence in these spaces.

( What's Next? & a Thank You! )

Current Mood: sad

Two pulls this week and both of them beginnings: for B&R the start of a new arc, and for Red Hood the start of the new series! (kinda)

( Batman and Robin 25 )

( Red Hood 1 )

( Notes )

Current Mood: angry

Three pulls this week; I keep track of all my pulls on League of Comic Geeks, but there must have been an error on there with the release date for Birds of Prey, because when I made my September Pulls list, Birds of Prey #25 was scheduled for the next week (which I thought was odd because it's usually with Batgirl, but I just assumed there was some kind of delay). However, it seems like the issue has been released, given that other people have picked up their physical issues and it's out digitally. (Though I don't actually have any phsical copies yet; I read the issues online because I didn't have a chance to stop at my LCS this week). Not sure what happened there, I'm guessing there was a mistake with the release date on LoCG.

Spoilers ahead!

( Batgirl )

( Birds of Prey )

( Cheetah and Cheshire )

( Notes )

Current Mood: sick

Greetings! Following is my pull list for September.

( Read more... )Notes:

First issue of Red Hood! I'm splurging on a foil virgin variant cover so that at least if the contents of the comic fill me with anger, dismay, loathing, malaise, or any other unhappy emotion, I'll still have something pretty and shiny to look at. September 10th is appartenly the week for foil variants, because I also requested the foil variant for Birds of Prey. For other variants, I'm getting the Jorge Fornés‬ ‪variant of Nightwing.

Batgirl #11 features the conclusion to "The Three Swords" arc, and the summary promises that this issue "propels Batgirl into the next year of story and a new era for the Bat Books!" which is a bold statement that I struggle to believe because I suspect whoever writes the summaries for DC is a lying liar who lies for drama and profit, but we shall see.

Red Hood aside, I think my most anticipated pull for this month is Green Arrow. I've been loving this arc and I'm eager to see what Chris Condon has in store for us next with the Crimson Archer.

Current Mood: blah

Here we are, the end of August! Three pulls on the list this week, here are my thoughts!

( Mild spoilers ahead! )

Notes:
Next week! Batgirl! Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League! Women! Birds of Prey usually comes out the same week as Batgirl, but it seems it's been moved to the next week.

Also coming out next week, this fun cover featuring Jason!

Cover of the Facsimile Edition of Batman #635. The art is of a plastic Red Hood action figure in a package, as if it were a real toy someone could buy. — Batman #635 Facsimile Edition 2025 Alex Saviuk Super Powers Variant

I'm not picking this one up sadly (mostly because I didn't realize it existed; I must have missed it in the solicits) but I wish this was a real action figure and, more importantly, could be bought for the low low price of $4.99. It is very clever to have the price of the comic look like a price sticker though!

Current Mood: relaxed

Salutations! Quite a few on the list this week, five total.
( spoilers )
Notes:
I'm considering adding Justice League Red to my pulls, but I'm waiting to subscribe until I can read the first issue. The first issue released this week and I saw the preview as well and it intrigued me, the concept sounds really interesting. I'm trying not to add new comics to my pulls, because I really don't need to be spending so much money on comic books, but I also have the added hesitation of adding this specific title to my list given that it releases on a day when five other titles I pull release and I already struggle to keep up with reading everything in a timely manner (though I am catching up thankfully!)

Now with all that said, I did add a new title to my pulls XD. Starting in October with issue #26, I'll be picking up The Flash! DC's K.O. event doesn't really interest me much; I'm tired of their events. I was burnt out on their events when Absolute Power came around. Every one is advertised as "world altering" and then post-event things go back to the way they were before (or worse). Add that to my frustration over DC's lack of clarity over what they want their characters to be doing (seriously, do any of the creative teams talk to each other? I was honestly shocked to see that Roy being in Star City was actually referenced in this issue of Titans) and you get my overall lack of disinterest in events. However, the mention of Impulsepoint in the issue summary had my ears perking up; though I fully believe that summaries are not to be trusted, in this case, I'll poke my head in and see what's happening in Flash comics.

Current Mood: energetic

Only one comic this week: Batman and Robin #24!

Batman & Robin #24:

This was the fifth and last issue in The Gotham Cycle arc, and I enjoyed it! There were quite the variety of artists on this issue, with a lovely little section at the end by Juni Ba, who draws absolutely adorable Damians. I liked the creepy, gothic horror-esque vibes of Memento Mori, and I thought the arc ended pretty well.

My hopes for the next arc:

More Damian!
DC doesn't currently have a solo Robin title, so all of Robin's appearances (be that Damian or Tim) are with Batman in Batman-led titles (that's Batman and Detective Comics). It would be nice if Robin got more of a focus in a series with his name on the label, especially since Memento Mori as a character was so connected to Bruce. The summary for the next issue doesn't give me much hope for this point, because it trumpets "one of Batman's deadliest enemies thought to be dead returns!" Sigh…

Enrichment of Damian's social life
We keep getting to see Damian with other people his age, but not with a consistent friend group. I'd love to see him interact more regularly with the Gotham Irregulars. In this issue he promised to teach them how to do kicks, and I'm really hoping there's a follow-up scene to that in #25. Maya Ducard would also be welcome, or maybe some school friends, since we spent so many issues around Damian at school.

Bruce buys a parenting book
Okay, so this is a little bit of a pet peeve but Bruce and Damian's relationship in the series has felt very all or nothing. They're either "learning to be father and son, so sweet and nice" or "we are fighting and we will never learn to like each other" which, don't get me wrong, can be a fun dynamic, except it always seems like the conflict is always Damian's fault, like there's something he needs to learn or discover about himself, and Bruce never has to do any introspection about himself and his behavior. It would be a nice change if he did! The Bruce Wayne worship needs to be STOPPED XD

Notes:

Current Mood: okay

Batgirl #10:

Some sibling drama in this issue and a little bit of backstory on Tenji, Cass's recently-revealed brother. Cass is not happy about having to share her mother with someone else (relateable older sibling experience, honestly).

Birds of Prey #24:

Hail, hail, the gang's all here! The Birds launch their rescue-Barda plan and face down the Shadow Army. It was fun getting to see Birds from previous arcs come back for an issue (even though big casts mean you don't get a lot of time to focus on individual characters much).

Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1:

Gory and a little horny about it. (Gory for a mainline DC rogue story, anyway, so not really that gory). This first issue was mainly character work for Jade and Barbara and set-up for the premise of the whole series: what they're stealing. I'm excited for what comes next, but I do wish there was a little more meat to this first issue. (Ha! Meat. Maybe not the same kind of meat that Cheetah was eating.)

Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #5:

Final issue! Three stories in this one, all of them with the same Juni Ba humor and wit. I liked the stories in this issue, though none of them were my favorites from this 5-issue run; that honor goes to the entertaining and meta Batman-and-Robin parody in issue #1 and the vacationing family in issue #4. Still, I think the things Ba had to say in these stories were once again thought-provoking and funny, and I highly reccommend picking up the trade paperback when it comes out in October if you can't get your hands on the individual issues now.

Notes:

I'm quite annoyed with my comic book store. I still haven't gotten Birds of Prey #23 and it's been a month. I had to read the issue online. It will be very irritating if they don't get it in and I'm missing one comic out of the whole run, since I've been subscribed since the series started. I'll have to track down the issue and buy it online somewhere, likely at a premium, and then pay shipping on top of that. To be fair, it's not entirely the comic store's fault; they said they ordered it and it just didn't come. The interesting thing is that Batgirl #9 also didn't come in that week, but they reordered it and it has since arrived.(Side note: Two female-character led titles didn't arrive on time? I [jokingly] cry sexism!) I suspect this is once again my nemesis Lunar Distribution playing mind games with me. The store blamed Diamond's bankruptcy, which is a convenient excuse. Surely it's far more likely that Lunar Distibution hates me personally.

Oh well. It gets here when it gets here.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Gordon Lightfoot

I spent my Saturday finally getting caught up on the ongoing Green Arrow, which I've been meaning to do for ages but just didn't have the time or energy. I fell off the series after issue 09, which was published way back in February 2024, partly because I was just stretched too thin to keep up with all my comics due to some life things, and partly because the whole Absolute Power, Amanda Waller-takes-over-the-Earth event just didn't catch my interest that much. Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it in Green Arrow! It wasn't bad, just not my cup of tea. Reception for Joshua Williamson's run on Green Arrow seems to be lukewarm on average; some people like it, some people don't, which is fair, but he did succesfully get what was supposed to be a limited series turned into an ongoing, which I think makes his run at least worth a read.

I think part of what makes Chris Condon's first arc such a stand-out to me is that it's very different from Williamson's. Williamson's run was marked by a series of high-profile events: the launch of Dawn of DC, Countdown to Absolute Power, and the Absolute Power event; Condon's first arc was set in Star City without any DC universe shenanigans going on. Williamson's run had an extended cast of Arrowfam heroes; Condon's first arc featured Oliver Queen alone, with a few cameos from Dinah Lance, Roy Harper, and Connor Hawke, and his second arc is (so far) featured around Oliver and Roy, with Dinah and Lian Harper supporting. Large casts can be fun, but they're more work to juggle, which means that sometimes characters are there but don't get much screentime, so to say, which is a shame. I'm eager to see more interactions between Oliver and his family (I'd love to see more of Connor and Mia!) but I think it's wise to add characters in slowly, giving each one the opportunity to really be fleshed out without the constraints of 8 other characters and a plot to manage.

Despite their differences, the concept of family is central to both runs; in Williamson's, Oliver takes action alone to protect his family, even though it alienates him from them. In Condon's, even though Oliver is working alone again, central to the first arc is an entire community of families hurt and torn apart by forces beyond their control, and in the second arc, (which isn't finished yet) Oliver and Roy work together and rediscover how good it can be.

I'm also going to take a moment of appreciation for Montos, the artist on Condon's run. He draws Oliver so pretty. I struggled to pick just one panel to show off, because there were so many that had Ollie looking like an absolute dreamboat of a man. Even in costume with almost all of his body concealed, he looked good! And that's why you get no panels. You'll just have to go read the comic yourself to see what I'm talking about :)

Current Mood: geeky

Painting of a boy sitting on the street, shirtless, with bread in his hand — *Daily Bread* by Thomas Kennington, 1883

It's a summer day in Gotham, one of those days where the sidewalk is hot enough to fry an egg and you pray for a breeze to blow a cloud over your head for some blessed shade. They don't have AC in their apartment, so he's outside with no shirt on and his pants rolled up past his knees. His mom had handed him a sandwich and sent him out with ruffle of her hand in his curls and a warning "don't get sunburnt!" He'd picked the layers of the ham and cheese sandwich apart, eating the slice of cheese first, then the cold pieces of ham, and now all he's left with is the bread. He's nibbled down one slice to the corner, not so much hungry as he is bored, but too hot and sweaty to go find anything else more interesting to do. He's kicked his shoes off, a pair of cheap foam flip-flops that are bound to fall apart any day now, the thong threatening to pop out of the hole in the sole from use. He tries not to move his feet too much; the ground is hot where his feet haven't already shaded it, and he finds himself wishing for rain, a reversal of the week before when it rained three days in a row and he was trapped in the apartment, bored the whole time. Maybe later he’ll go back up to the apartment and get some of the dollar bills he has hidden under his dresser and walk down the street to the corner store and buy a box of popsicles, and spend the rest of the afternoon staining his tongue in a rainbow of colors, but right now the thought of walking up through the heatbox of a stairwell sounds like too much work, so he’ll stay here and pick at his bread, at least until the pigeons spot him and come to beg for his crumbs.

Current Mood: listless

August Comics

Hello hello! Here’s my pull list for the month, I have a total of thirteen comics on the list. As usual the majority are from DC, with two coming from Image. I’ve been half-tempted to pick up Chip Zdarsky’s run on Captain America, but so far I’ve resisted, since I’ve been trying to cut back on how many comics I’m buying (even though I added the new Red Hood series for September which I’m very excited for).

August 6th

Batgirl #10

Birds of Prey #24

Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1

Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #5

August 13th

Batman and Robin #24

August 20th

Batman and Robin: Year One #10

Falling in Love on the Path to Hell #9

The New Gods #9

Nightwing #129

Titans #26

August 27th

Absolute Wonder Woman #11

Green Arrow #27

Robin and Batman: Jason Todd #3

Notes:

I’m hyped for the new Cheetah/Cheshire comic. Heist stories are some of my faves, and with Greg Rucka writing it my expectations are high. Nicola Scott is doing the art, so it’s sure to be a beautiful issue. Other notables are Batman and Robin #24, where writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson will be wrapping up the Memento storyline, which I’ve really been enjoying!

Current Mood: cheerful

Comics on this month's pull list! I've been adding summaries to the DC Fandom wiki for the Titans series which has been a fun way to get me motivated to read the series. I've been thinking about dropping a few series, my pull list has gotten to be a bit unmanageable, but which ones to drop is so hard to decide!

Week of April 02

Batgirl #6

Birds of Prey #20

Cruel Kingdom #4

Deadpool #13

Two-Face #5

Week of April 09

Batman and Robin #20

Week of April 16

The New Gods #5

Nightwing #125

Sam Wilson: Captain America #4

Titans #22

Week of April 23

Absolute Wonder Woman #7

Green Arrow #23

Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor #3

Week of April 30

Black Canary: Best of the Best #6

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: My couch

April is here whether I'm ready for it or not, and here's this month's reading list. As usual, I'll update it as I add things and finish things, and we'll see where I am by the end of the month!

Captain America Comics #1-10 (Joe Simon, Comic Issues)

All Winners Comics #1-2 (Carl Burgos, Comic Issues)

Young Allies Comics #1 (Stan Lee, Comic Issues)

~~Captain America: Symbol of Truth, Vol. 2: Pax Mohannda (Tochi Onyebuchi, TPB)~~

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, Vol. 2: The Invader (Jackson Lanzing, TPB)

U.S. 1, #1-12 (Al Milgrom, Comic Series)

~~The Devil Is a Marquess (Elisa Braden, E-Book)~~

~~A Wicked Kind of Husband (Mia Vincy, E-Book)~~

~~Anything but a Gentleman (Elisa Braden, E-Book)~~

Nightwing: A Knight in Bludhaven

Smut, Filth, and Perversion

I'm back on the regency romance ride! The Devil Is a Marquess, A Wicked Kind of Husband, and Anything But a Gentleman were all recs I found on r/historicalromance over on Reddit. I get a lot of my romance recs there. I'll probably read a few more in this vein this month, but we'll see if I find anymore with summaries that pique my interest.

Captain America: Symbol of Truth, Vol. 2: Pax Mohannda

I've been working my way through this series alongside Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, since they converge in Captain America: Cold War, which I currently have an inter-library loan request out for! I've really been enjoying it. This volume had Joaquin turning into a terrible were-bird, which was very serious in the comic but would sound a little ridiculous to explain to anyone outside of comics. Also I was introduced to a new character, Nomad, who's backstory seems really interesting. I might try to hunt down some comics with him in it after I finish with Messrs. Lanzing and Onyebuchi's respective Captain America runs.

Current Mood: thirsty
Current Music: Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo - Diving Duck Blues

My current reading list for this month! I'll update it as I add things and finish things, and we'll see where I am by the end of the month.

~~Captain America: Sentinel of Truth Vol. 1: Revolution~~

~~Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace, Vol. 1: Global Guardian (Amanda Conner, Graphic Novel)~~

~~SPYXFAMILY Vol. 1-3 (Tatsuya Endo, Manga)~~

~~Ms. Marvel: Super Famous (G. Willow Wilson, Graphic Novel)~~

~~Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: BFF (Amy Reeder, Graphic Novel)~~

The Foxhole Court (Nora Sakavic, E-Book)

~~The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests (Chris Smith, Audiobook)~~

~~Thornhedge (T. Kingfisher, Audiobook)~~

~~Saga of the Swamp Thing Book One (Alan Moore, Graphic Novel)~~

Captain America Comics #1-10 (Joe Simon, Comic Issues)

All Winners Comics #1-2 (Carl Burgos, Comic Issues)

Young Allies Comics #1 (Stan Lee, Comic Issues)

~~Fantastic Four, Vol. 1: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four (Ryan North, Graphic Novel)~~

~~Fantastic Four, Vol. 2: Four Stories About Hope (Ryan North, Graphic Novel)~~

Captain America: Symbol of Truth, Vol. 2: Pax Mohannda

The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

I am at 82% of this audiobook. The end is near!
Update: peace and love on Planet Earth! I finished it! An interesting look at a niche segment of entertainment that I've never watched before (because I don't and have never had cable), covering a period of time that's (somewhat) recent enough that I have a vague memory of a few of the events.

Saga of the Swamp Thing

Okay, I can see why this is considered a classic, it was incredible! From the script to the story to the art to the colors, every single panel was breath-taking and I was completely absorbed in the story in a way I didn't think I would.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: BFF

Oh I'm obsessed with Lunella. I was absolutely screaming in rage every time someone told her to act normal. I would die for this child, no questions asked. Her and her dinosaur should get to destroy New York City anytime they want. I desperately need the next volume.

Thornhedge

What a clever and inventive fairytale! I listened to this on audiobook which I think was a great decision, because there's something that feels so right about listening to someone tell you a fairytale.

Current Location: My Kitchen Table
Current Music: Irish Eyes

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