Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey by G.B. Tran My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Vietnameria” is G.B. Tran’s, the author, the true story of how his family fled Vietnam for the U.S. right before Saigon fell. Anytime a family immigrates, whether by choice or as refugees, there causes a break between the parents and their children. Most of the time the children identify with the new country while the parents maintain ties with the country of origin. This is the case with Tran’s family. His parents […]
A Somewhat Origin Story for T’Challa
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates My rating: 3 of 5 stars A while back, I had read several of the Black Panther issues that were written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. They were interesting but somewhat confusing because it felt like they were picking up from some previous work and it wasn’t clear where they were headed. Since then I’ve seen the movie and Coates has written more issues, which alongwith the previous issues, have been compiled in this volume. I have […]
No.
Betrayal. Just, betrayal. That is the main feeling I have at this point. Well, the main feeling in like 75% of my brain. The other 25% understands logically why what happened in this book happened, but that 75%, it is PISSED. Just, how dare you. Maybe it is a good thing that Vaughan and Staples are taking a year-ish hiatus on this series, because my main impulse right now is to go over to their houses, knock all the books off their bookshelves in a […]
In which I am a party pooper.
I just really miss Legend of Korra. That is my main takeaway from reading this three-part comic series over the last year. I just did a rewatch of Avatar the Last Airbender and Korra at the beginning of the year, but I might have to do another one. It’s just so good. I think I might have also read this wrong. I read each issue as they came out, and looooved the first one. But the second two, less so. It had been months since I read the preceding issues, and […]