Gotham Academy: Second Semester Vol 1 is the second arc of the YA-oriented series for DC and picks up after the winter break for the kids at GA. (Non-spoiler series blurb for those who missed the first arc: our main character is Olive Silverlock, a returning scholarship student at Gotham Academy. Olive suffered a pretty traumatic event over the summer which resulted in her mother being institutionalized. Her best friend is Mia “Maps” Mizoguchi, an enthusiastic and inquisitive freshman bent on uncovering all the secrets, […]
Proud Little Pawns/No Quiet Way
This was another comic book that was recommended, but I haven’t had a chance to get around to until now. Velvet Templeton is the secretary for the director of a secret black-ops spy agency. It sounds like Archer’s ISIS, but without the loveable crew of weirdos, incompetents, and Lana. If it were, Velvet would be Lana masquerading as Cheryl. Velvet wasn’t always behind a desk. When a current operative and a retired operative are murdered, Velvet finds herself framed and needing to call on her […]
How many ways can I say this is awesome?
Lobster Is the Best Medicine is the second book I have by the awesomeness that is Liz Climo, the first being The Little World of Liz Climo. It’s a collection of comics, this time all about friendship. All of the comics are either one or two panels, so they’re all really short. So if you don’t have a lot of time, you could read one or two. If you have a longer amount of time, say 15 or 20 minutes, you could read the whole […]
This is Dedicated To The #!&&@$ That Was Down From Day One
I know nothing about Hip Hop. I’m a middle aged white lady who has never spent much time in the Hip Hop centers of culture, or much energy on music. I do love history though, and I don’t need to know much about a subject to want to know how it came to be. Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1 is amazing and well worth a read, even if Hip Hop isn’t your thing. I recognized maybe one name out of ten, but I […]