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A 50-something queer Buddist geek in London, as addicted to comics now as I was half a century ago.

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finished reading Pageboy by Elliot Page

Elliot Page: Pageboy (2023, Flatiron Books) 4 stars

A fascinating and enjoyable Audiobook, even though Page’s delivery is often disappointingly flat. Learning about his traumas and influences, industry abuses through parental abuse, it’s amazing he’s survived as well as he has, to the point he can be the role model he now is.

Pretty fun ultimatization

4 stars

Johns and Frank ultimatise Bruce Wayne, and for the most part it's successful. The Nolan ripoffs are a bit much, but Bruce's move to create his Outsiders is well reimagined, even if his Robin gets no more than two panels. Frank's art is strong, although his own inks are better than Sibal's, but all three outings are fun and it's a shame that a fourth volume with The Joker is now pretty unlikely.

Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald, Jacques Roy: Lie with Me (Hardcover, 2019, Scribner) 4 stars

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a …

An Engrossing Immersion into Past Gay Love

4 stars

Content warning Avoid the end of the review if you haven't watched the film

Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald, Jacques Roy: Lie with Me (Hardcover, 2019, Scribner) 4 stars

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a …

Content warning Crucial story spoiler at the end - important if you haven't seen the film

reviewed Night Fever by Jacob Phillips

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips: Night Fever (Hardcover, 2023, Image Comics) 4 stars

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person …

Most Beautiful Book Ever

4 stars

It certainly looks good - it may well be Sean and Jake Phillips' finest artistic hours respectively. I mean I've never seen comic or graphic novel artwork look this beautiful. Brubaker's story is certainly compelling and thoughtful - feeling part a meditation by the author and part happening to Jon/Griffin in a sometimes awake/sometimes not sleep-deprived fever dream. It does feel a little too quick a read in spite of the remarkable visuals (which deserve every award imaginable) and the non-ending leaves me a little disappointed (how much of this was even real - Fight Club style). As a noir-driven look at a man's midlife crisis though, caught between his success in an ordinary life and the fulfilment he craves, it's next level good, almost dangerously so. It does channel Fight Club, its willingness to be disturbing is welcome, but did leave me wanting a little more, despite the high …