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Tony Cliff: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (GraphicNovel, 2016, First Second) 3 stars

Lovable ne’er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an adventurer for the 19th century. She has traveled to …

Until now, I’ve shied away from chronicling my reading of comics / graphic novels. Not because I don’t think of them as books in their own right – the Belgian and French, who consider bande dessinées the ninth art form, have got it right in my book –, but because most of them are serial, often very much so, and because I tend to go through them like wildfire, all of which would make for a very noisy timeline.

This is doing them a disservice, though. Starting with this, I will be doing the occasional highlight of books ands series that, for good or bad, particularly resonated with me, without any aspirations to completeness. You will see this disclaimer linked to in the reviews I post.