My favourite part of every book is the front matter. The forewords, the introductions, everything but the book. I like how books relate to other books, and how they form a personal constellation.
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King Solomon’s Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping …
The problems with this book are obvious and not worth getting into. That said, what a fantastic adventure. This feels like world building built out of the real world, describing flora and fauna largely unfamiliar to its Victorian audience
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange …
Pretty awesome even by Tezuka standards. It feels like this was his way of trying to reckon with Shigeru Mizuki
What a stinker.
This book is terrible. Bad art, bad writing. I'm not even opposed to the gimmick outright but they botched the execution so hard.
Pre read for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. …
At this point I'm just looking forward to a reread. Maybe I'll try to track the Epic editions down.
The second volume presenting the long-out-print masterpiece Den, by fantasy legend Richard Corben!
Den: Muvovum …
Corben is an absolute master. There are panels here that leave me wondering if Square took inspiration from this for Final Fantasy VI and Bahamut Lagoon.
As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying …
I love James Bridle as a communicator.
Found in one of my favorite used book stores
No one understands superheroes better than Moore. This collection won him the 1997 Eisner Award …
Absolutely wonderful.
Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm …
Absolute madness.
"Following the unprecedented achievements of his Fourth World titles, Jack Kirby returned to the DC …
There was two runs in this volume. The second one is penciled by Kirby and much stronger than the first.
The mind-stunning shocker of a damned universe.
They're outcast mutants and outlaw adventurers waging a …
Lumley continues to teach me about bad writing. Pick a couple weird adjectives and cling to them for the length of the book.
Weird thing to note but this is printed on some of the nicest paper I've ever seen for a comic book.
In a post-human world, the man of miium is born. Created to avenge a slain …
Easily one of the best pieces of sci fi comics I've read