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303 reviews

Marvels: The Remastered Edition by Kurt Busiek

adventurous medium-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely beautiful artwork with a good story focusing on a “normal” person’s experience rather than that of a superhero’s. Definitely worth a read if you’re interested in the genre.

Hulk: Grand Design by Jim Rugg

adventurous funny informative fast-paced

3.0

Gives good background but not the most exciting thing.

Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

An unbelievably important and simultaneously impregnable work. God is nature and nature is eternal.

Physical Geography and Natural Disasters by R. Adam Dastrup
Did not finish book. Stopped at 58%.

I switched out of the class, couldn't finish it.

The Halo Graphic Novel by Tsutomu Nihei, Simon Bisley, Mœbius, Ed Lee, Lee Hammock, Brett Lewis, Jay Faerber

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

I used to be a big Halo fan when I was younger, now I’ve switched to other stuff like Warhammer 40k, mostly because there’s a lot more of it out there, but I picked this up for like 5 dollars after I saw that Tsotumi Nihei, the author of Blame! (one of my favorite mangas), wrote one of the stories in here, and woah! I liked the other stuff in here, especially the one by Moebius, but Tsutomu Nihei’ dart is crazy beautiful and horrifying. Definitely worth checking out if you interested in Nihei’s work or if you down with Halo. The only thing I’m disappointed with is that there’s not a lettering artist on some of the stories and just rely on the Halo font, which is fine, but I never realized how much character lettering brings to a book.

The Marvels Project by Ed Brubaker

adventurous mysterious fast-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? No

3.5

It’s okay, I agree with the other reviews. It’s pretty in many cases but the background characters are forgettable, I genuinely can’t revenge a single non-man character and I just finished reading it, and it’s short. But, I did still enjoy it.

Incident at Vichy: A Play by Arthur Miller

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

I liked it. Miller does an incredible job with dialogue and, although there is some weird stuff in here (particularly the racism towards the Romani person referred to as the G-slur, and the overplayed commentary on the dehumanization of the), the commentary on the banality of evil is quite compelling.

Oblivion Song Compendium by Robert Kirkman

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

3.25

Definitely not the best comic I’ve read, the art is bland in places, and I wish it had more to say, but I still liked it. 

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I always love finding more cyberfeminist stuff, though I do think this makes some of the same mistakes as Gender Nihilism where it doesn’t focus too much on the material reasons why gender is enforced and argues for refusal. I do still like it a lot though. I really enjoy the focus on art.

A History of Language by Steven Roger Fischer

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Interesting. It's super informative and, since reading this, I've realized that mainstream linguistics (focusing on language trees, syntax, etc.) are not super interesting to me. Instead, I enjoy thinking about the mental process of understanding language. I also like thinking about the methods of power always present in language. Neither of these are really focused on in this text but I did not expect those to be focused on.