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Tuesday 12 March 2024

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates Review


This is the story of Emily Grimes, from her childhood in the 1930s to her late ‘40s in the 1970s, and the people in her life: her older sister Sarah, her mother Esther or “Pookie”, and her father Walter, as well as the numerous men she has relationships with.

Monday 11 March 2024

The Last Mermaid #1 by Derek Kirk Kim Review


Contained within a mech suit/car filled with water, a mermaid and her pet fish roam the… San Francisco desert?! Not an ideal place to be stranded then when you need to refresh your mech suit/car’s water before the toxicity levels kills ya. The race is on for the mermaid to find water in a place filled with sand!

Sunday 10 March 2024

The Incredible Hulk, Volume 1: Age of Monsters Review (Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein)


Hulk and Banner are back on Earth but Hulk is mad at Banner for having mentally locked him up for so long. And if there’s one thing you wouldn’t like Hulk to be, it’s… y’know. Meanwhile, an ancient evil is resurrected and with it awakens a new Age of Monsters. Their sights are set on the biggest monster of all: 
yo mama! Hulk.

Saturday 9 March 2024

Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2: Faithless Review (Donny Cates, Cory Smith)


The Universal Church of Truth is back from the future to brainwash the past to save the future from death - or something. But if it’s not Adam Warlock/Magus in their latest cocoon, who is it? Meanwhile, Rocket battles space cancer - gee I wonder if he’ll overcome it? Have Faith.

Thursday 7 March 2024

Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 1: The Final Gauntlet Review (Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw)


Thanos is dead but has one last trick up his gauntlet: he’s uploaded his consciousness into someone else and lives on in a new body. But whose? All eyes point towards Gamora, who’s missing, presumed green. It’s a veritable Royal Rumble of the Marvel Cosmic as multiple teams set out to beat the other. This is Thanos’ Final Gauntlet!

Wednesday 6 March 2024

Void Rivals, Volume 1: More Than Meets The Eye Review (Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici)


A couple of pilots from warring sides crash-land on a rock and must put their differences aside to work together and make it back home. But it turns out that beneath their armour there is… (Transformers -) More Than Meets The Eye!

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Cat-Eyed Boy: The Perfect Edition, Volume 1 by Kazuo Umezz Review


Monsters spook people while the Cat-Eyed Boy watches on. That pretty much sums up every story in Kazuo Umezz’s Cat-Eyed Boy, Volume 1, the least compelling manga of his I’ve read to date.

Monday 4 March 2024

Fantastic Four, Volume 2: Four Stories About Hope Review (Ryan North, Iban Coello)


On the run from SHIELD, the Fantastic Four hide out at Ben’s Aunt Petunia’s farm - but is it haunted by g-g-ghosts?! Sue and Alicia visit a town where everyone forgets everyone, the Four save a stranded alien vessel, and Ben and a dog wake up in a falling house - wass happenin?!

Sunday 3 March 2024

Hulk, Volume 2: Hulk Planet Review (Donny Cates, Ryan Ottley)


The Starship Hulk lands on a planet with a thriving Hulk society, created accidentally from an incident earlier in the series. But Titan lurks within Hulk’s decaying brain - and is about to emerge…

Saturday 2 March 2024

James by Percival Everett Review


James is Percival Everett’s retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of N-word Jim. My review’s full of spoiler-y stuff so if you’re planning to read this book and that sorta thing bothers you, stop reading the review now. But if you’re simply after a TL/DR version of this review: Everett’s novel is unnecessary, adds little - worse, detracts even - to the original source material and Twain’s novel remains the better book to read of the two, yes, including the “problematic” language and racial stereotypes.

Thursday 29 February 2024

Hulk vs. Thor: Banner of War Review (Donny Cates, Martin Coccolo)


Wanted on Earth for supposedly murdering a bar full of patrons in El Paso, Bruce Banner’s turned Hulk into a starship and piloted it into deep space, never to return - though the Avengers are still after him. So when the grieving, newly-crowned King of Asgard, whose dead dad now inhabits Mjolnir, hears the Starship Hulk is nearby, Thor realises he can do some Avenger-ing and work out his grief at the same time. Is time for Hulk vs Thor - ding ding!

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Peacemaker Tries Hard! Review (Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh)


Peacemaker finally has a friend: a lil pug he names Bruce Wayne. Mais sacre bleu - an evil brain in a jar called The Brain and his French-speaking gorilla henchman have kidnapped him! To get him back, Peacemaker must steal Deathstroke the Terminator’s DNA so Brain can have a badass new clone bod. And who’s coming to Peacemaker’s party on Saturday?!

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Hulk, Volume 1: Smashtronaut! Review (Donny Cates, Ryan Ottley)


“These waves do not crash on me. They break on me. Because I am strong.”

- Bruce Banner, mad scientist par excellence

Monday 26 February 2024

Fantastic Four, Volume 1: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four? Review (Ryan North, Iban Coello)


Ben and Alicia find themselves in 1947 small town ‘murica. Sue and Reed are stuck in another small town - full of Doombots what don’t know they’re Doombots?! And Johnny plays at being a convenience store woman. All puzzling situations, but how come they ain’t together - wha hoppen to the Fantastic Floor?!