Please note that I gave this 3.5 stars and rounded it up to 4 stars here. I think I may just wait after I finish the third comic for a full volume to be put together. There are still too many unanswered questions for me to be able to even figure out why there is a schism between Jessica Jones, the Avengers, and Luke Cage. This comic focuses more on Jessica and Luke though which I appreciated. We get some flashbacks to Jessica giving birth, […]
“Oh, for God’s sake, it’s Patsy!”
This series is my new favorite thing. Patsy Walker/Hellcat is really funny and spunky and awesome. It ranks up there with my other favorite, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. You can read my full review here. P.S. The title is from this guy here: I actually think about this scene and the line delivery all the time.
I’ve been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies
I’ve read Lucy Knisley’s books mostly out of order. I started with her more recent and worked my way around. Not on purpose, but sometimes that’s just how reading goes, you know? I first discovered Knisley’s work via her webcomic and loved it because she loved, and drew about, so many of the things I loved: cats, books, Harry Potter, food. She was also navigating some of the same things I was, namely How to Adult and everything that went with it. I was also […]
I’m Keeping the Interlibrary Loan Librarians Guessing
After reading a good review in CBR7 and many more earlier this year, I used my college’s Interlibrary Loan to request Bitch Planet: Book One and I was not disappointed. This comic poses a future or maybe an alternative present where “compliance” is required of all women and that means conforming to the wishes of men—being passive, agreeable, and of course, thin. Society attempts to correct those who don’t “comply” but those who aren’t able to be “saved” are sent off world—to the titled “Bitch Planet.” I […]