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Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus by Chuck Tingle
5.0
5 stars for trolling the notorious TERF and the best description of autism I've seen in a book
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
challenging
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
Transmetropolitan Book One by Warren Ellis
challenging
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
This is a reread keeping in mind that a) I'm older and b) Ellis has been outed as a wrong'un. There's some insight here, some decent commentary on modern life that holds up nearly 25 years later but still so much edgelordery such as ''wah wah wah all religion is pointless and for the lost and gullible''. It very much feels that Ellis wants Spider to be his messianic truth laden mouthpiece who's edgy and doesn't care what you think, which just comes across as teen level wankery now. Then we get to the end where we discover that Spider has committed what is arguably sexual assault and at the least predatory sexual behaviour and it's brushed off as a punch line to a joke. Yeah, Ellis definitely wanted Spider to be his avatar.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault
Unstoppable Doom Patrol by Dennis Culver
0.25
Beige, straight, basic and square. Several mainstream heroe cameos and the end reveal made me want to break things. Runs roughshod over the versions of Doom Patrol that Morrisons, Pollack and even Way produced.