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30 reviews

The Ghost in the Shell (Deluxe Edition) by Shirow Masamune

adventurous dark funny hopeful informative mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

What it lacks in the cohesion and focus (present in Oshii's animated adaptation), it makes up for in the charm of characters and density of its world. Some of these panels are absolutely gorgeous, loaded with detail, matched by the footnotes about geopolitics or physics terms. This feels more like a primer for a cyberpunk world than an A-B narrative and that works, but Oshii managed the balance in the 1995 film

Batman '89 by Sam Hamm

adventurous hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

More ambitious than Superman '78, but doesn't recapture the era quite as well. Felt like they really wanted to @ annoying ppl on Twitter who say Bruce Wayne would be better donating to the community of Gotham instead of punching baddies. I liked Robin tho

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Calvino gives a beautiful array of insanely layered vignettes. I've rarely seen a text do so much with so little, the writing is so rich and dense while being easy to read

Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike by Kelly Sue DeConnick

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"Life ain't ours to keep, girl. We get to hold it some for a little bit, but then we got to pass it on."

Superman '78 by Robert Venditti

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

Good fun, colourful, great art and writ ng that's surprisingly true to the vibes of Donner's films. A complement to those original films that it's magic simply can't be recaptured 

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The best stories about people who can shoot lasers out of their eyes are the ones that are secretly about being human. This is one of em💖

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

challenging dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Hard to put into words. Vonnegut manages to juggle absurdity with profundity in a way they somehow harmonise. While I'm struggling to decipher exactly the reason for the link between the narrator and Billy Pilgrim, the effect of their union isn't lost; that being that these horrors can affect anyone, not just now but forever. It is a text of duality, of laughter and sadness, horror and beauty, right and wrong. It never wavers in providing the perfect balancing act of that duality.

The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Hunger and the Dusk's narrative of two races having to work together in the face of greater odds is nothing new, but the writing makes a well-worn trope very endearing, the stakes behind this treaty feel high and the ending of the first volume quite devastating. The combination of Chris Wildgoose's lines and MsassyK's colours add some excellent depth and beauty to what is a reasonably by the books fantasy setting

Transformers, Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise by Daniel Warren Johnson

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Daniel Warren Johnson does a fantastic job reinvigourating a what has been a stale story. The human plot does a great job grounding the entertaining alien melodrama while sprinkling a dash of commentary in there. Johnson's artwork is utterly incredible, rendering characters we've seen for decades in new ways and making moments of action incredibly dynamic

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Lolita was always a difficult book to pick up and start reading, but each time I did, it was very difficult to put back down. Given the subject matter, I think that says a lot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship