WWW Wednesday – October 16, 2024

October 16, 2024 Ryan1 Comment

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

Just this morning I started reading Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero, a horror novel that I did not realize until today is published by Blumhouse Books; I didn’t even know Blumhouse had an arm for book publishing. I’ve only gotten about 20 pages in, but I’m really enjoying the setup so far, especially in how it’s an obvious send up of Scooby-Doo, but the members of their little detective group so far feel unique enough that it doesn’t feel like shallow parody. The setup has revealed that while they did in fact get an old man in a costume arrested, something else, much more sinister, was really going on at that mansion on the lake. The writing style has some interesting flourishes too, the narrator often describing things as if the characters are on camera in a film, but I’m not sure how much I like this yet.

Recently Finished

In a surprising show of determination from yours truly, I started and finished rereading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley over the last two weeks. I didn’t post last Wednesday because I wasn’t that far yet and it was my birthday, so I decided to take a day for myself as much as I could. At first, I was worried about how well I would fare with this novel because it has been a while since I read older literature. Once I got back into the swing of things, it made for a very enjoyable reread. This was actually my first time reading the 1831 text as well, as originally I’d only read the 1818 version. The absence of overt incest does make it better. Wrightson’s illustrations were also a great addition to this reading experience. Some of them felt a little superfluous, but it was a delight anytime he depicted the Creature. How anyone could not understand how the Creature is supposed to be a sympathetic figure is beyond me; what ended up surprising me, a detail I’d forgotten, is that Frankenstein actually does admit his shortcomings on his deathbed. He’d been such an intolerant heel the entire book I had convinced myself he dies without learning a damn thing.

Reading Next

I still have a number of books I plan to get to for Frighteningly Good Reads this year, and I think what I’ll try to get through next is Vermis II: Mist & Mirrors by Plastiboo, the second volume of an art book series that creates game guides for a dungeon-crawling dark fantasy video game that never existed. Though I’ve recently watched a video that summarized a lot of the elements this book will cover, the details are fortunately receding from my mind already; a video summary pales in comparison to actually reading a thing as well anyway, let alone appreciating all the art that is has to offer.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – October 2, 2024

October 2, 2024 Ryan2 Comments

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

With October having kicked off, I started reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley last night; the edition I’m reading includes spectacular pen and ink illustrations by Bernie Wrightson, well known for his work on comic series like Swamp Thing. So far, I’ve only read the front matter, which included a few introductions and sections giving some historical context for when it was written. The more modern introduction was written by Stephen King, and we are also treated to the introduction written by Shelley herself for the 1831 reprint. I was quite surprised to learn that, according to the author’s introduction, in her imagining of the creation of the Creature, when the story was still just a seed of an idea, she described it as being animated by “the working of some powerful engine.” I had thought the explicit use of technology of that nature was an addition by later adaptations, but clearly I’ve been mistaken for years.

Recently Finished

Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner is an autobiographical graphic novel I picked up from the library a week or so ago. This was another case of me fully embracing the accessibility libraries grant us and picking up a book I wouldn’t have ever purchased for myself. The story mainly covers the author’s experiences spending her summers in Australia as a young girl, her obsession with sharks serving as a through line throughout her experiences. This was one of those books that resonated with me despite not tapping into a precise childhood fixation I shared because the way she was feeling was familiar, even if the subject of her feelings wasn’t. I’m really happy I checked this one out.

James Bond: The Body by Aleš Kot and various illustrators is a standalone volume from the recent James Bond comics published by Dynamite. This was another library book, but what most caught my eye about it was Kot as the author; I think he did exceptional work on the Bloodborne comics (especially for a video game tie in), so my interest is likely to be piqued if I see him attached to something. It was an interesting look at the toll being a secret agent takes on Bond’s body, as well as the fortitude required for him to live this life, weaving together several semi-self-contained smaller stories that all connect by the end. What was most refreshing was the idea of his missions feeling smaller scale; ultimately, the fate of world really is still at stake, but Kot managed to make the focus feel more grounded.

Lastly, I managed to finish reading The Truth by Terry Pratchett, so I’ve managed to read at least one Discworld novel this year. I’m sad that this will likely be the only one, but I don’t want my reading to be too narrow. I feel like I comment on this a lot while reading this series—after all, it’s pretty hard to read 25 books set in the same world and not have similar things to say about it—but I really think this was a solid iteration on a familiar story structure to this series that we hadn’t seen in a while. It did have some notable similarities, like I can’t help but feel like the hero and heroine duo we get in books like these, unlikely to appear as protagonists in the series again, are all secretly facets of the same people. Nevertheless, this was a stronger outing that felt like it had something to say about newsprint and media and stood its ground by having it here to stay in the Discworld going forward.

Reading Next

Nothing this week, so to speak, but only because I will be posting my opening post for Frighteningly Good Reads either tomorrow or Friday, and that is where I plan to outline what I’d like to read for the month of October.

WWW Wednesday – September 25, 2024

September 25, 2024 Ryan1 Comment

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I’m still making my way through The Truth by Terry Pratchett, but I’ve managed to read through another 100 pages are so since last week, so I’m closing in on finishing it up. I’m hoping I can have it done by next week, especially since I will want to get started on Halloween reads, and this is very much not a spooky read in any way. Though the main plot of this book, involving a secret group of elites trying to depose the Patrician of the city so that a puppet can be elected in his place, sounds pretty interesting, it’s been a little bland so far. Still, I am really enjoying William trying to establish a newspaper with integrity, especially in the face of more established guilds essentially making tabloid papers that will just make things up. I wonder if things will lead to him being humbled as he maybe starts to over-inflate himself as some sort of arbiter of Truth, but so far I’m rooting for him; I hope the Ankh-Morpork Times is here to stay in the series going forward.

Recently Finished

Nothing this week!

Reading Next

Though I’m still humming and hawing about all the books I think I can realistically read this October (a post is forthcoming), I can say with certainty that one of them that I want to read (a rare reread!) is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, specifically the edition with illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. Frankenstein is one of my favourite books, and it’s been a long time since I’ve read it, so I’m excited for that fact alone, but I’m also really looking forward to Wrightson’s breathtaking art accompanying the experience. I bought my copy a few years ago now (probably longer than I think), so I’m glad I’m finally getting to it.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – September 18, 2024

September 18, 2024 Ryan2 Comments

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I’m still making my way through The Truth by Terry Pratchett, though I haven’t made especially good progress this past week. With the story presenting newspapers as a novelty in the city, I can’t help but feel oddly compelled to read a newspaper myself. It’s something that’s never been a habit for me, but the way it’s being presented is hearkening back to a time before widespread online media, and it’s making me feel that reading a paper for precisely local news, where I live, would hold much more appeal. This is probably a fleeting whim, but it’s amusing to be so self-aware of fiction’s influence. The mounting conflict seems to be about the Patrician of the city being replaced by an imposter, with the end goal of usurping him, but with the shadowy group’s insistence he not be killed, I wonder what more they have planned.

Recently Finished

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse I ended up coming across another shelf of graphic novels at my local library, so I brought a number of them home, relishing the opportunity for more brisk reads that I wouldn’t pick up under other circumstances. One was Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen, a “Sarah’s Scribbles” collection of comic strips. It was an amusing outing, but I’m glad I didn’t buy this book when it came out, as I think I’ve outgrown the style a little; it’s millennial humour that was better suited to me when I was in my 20s. I also read The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy, which caught my eye because of its lovely ink art. Essentially an all-ages picture book, it was full of nice, thoughtful sentiments, though at times they felt more like saccharine platitudes. Still, it was a moving work that made for a nice, relaxing read. Lastly, I finished reading Stung with Love: Fragments and Poems by Sappho. I haven’t got much more to say on it, other than I’m happy that it was more enriching for me than other ventures into reading poetry, which I struggle with sometimes.

Reading Next

Suddenly, the end of September feels like it is coming up really fast, so I’m starting to shift into thinking about October reads. I haven’t fully settled on what horror book I want to start with just yet, but I’ll be taking part in Frighteningly Good Reads again this year, so I’ll have a post at the start of next month detailing a selection of books I want to get through.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – September 11, 2024

September 11, 2024 Ryan1 Comment

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I made some decent progress on The Truth by Terry Pratchett this past week, sitting at well over 120 pages in now. It’s still in what feels like the “ramping up” phase of the story, but I’m enjoying it well enough so far. In the past, I found this formula a little played out, but it receded into the background as his books started to focus more on building on the characters from their respective subseries. Now, he’s come back around to it in what feels like a more refined way so far. I really liked how the story itself does a little nod to these older stories, like Moving Pictures, with the Patrician grilling the dwarf who runs the printing press about the likelihood of this new innovation wreaking similar havoc on the city/reality, bringing up several other incidents from across the series’s many books. Moving Pictures was well over ten books ago now, so it was sobering to be reminded that it really wasn’t that long ago for the people of this world. They really do deal with a lot of crazy crap.

I also made some decent headway reading Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho. I should have it done soon, I just want to take my time a little instead of plowing through so I can appreciate it better. The translator’s notes alongside the fragments are very helpful, especially the one about a fragment that has acquired “cult status” in academic circles, simply reading “A handkerchief; Dripping with…”

Recently Finished

Batman Hellboy Starman Sometime over the past week I decided to finally read Batman/Hellboy/Starman by James Robinson and Mike Mignola, a two-issue crossover comic featuring the two iconic characters and some guy I’ve never heard of before. The story is non-canonical, so it just has fun with the idea of Batman and Hellboy meeting up. This crossover is from 1999, so it felt especially informed by the TAS version of Batman, but I could have just been projecting. It was a fun little outing involving them trying to thwart Nazis from reviving an elder god. It wasn’t especially deep as a story, but it didn’t have to be; while the Hellboy novels have their problems with that, these more basic plots thrive better as comics. Interestingly, I think the Kindle version I bought for about $4 was technically a scam? It’s not listed anymore, and there are banner ads within about it coming from a free comic book site. I think somebody made a quick buck listing somebody else’s work.

Reading Next

Once again, I’m not really sure what I’ll be reading next, but I do have a bunch of books in mind, so it’ll just be a matter of settling on one.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – September 4, 2024

September 4, 2024 Ryan2 Comments

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

It’s feeling rather late in the year for this considering I used to try to read one every quarter, but I’ve finally started the next Discworld novel I need to get to: The Truth. I’m expecting this one to feel a little refreshing because it’s been a long time since I’ve read one that wasn’t a part of a subseries like the Witches or the City Watch. This follows a similar yet more open-ended structure to some of the previous ones, about the world being effected by the arrival of a new innovation in some way. This book sees a machine printing press coming to the city of Ankh-Morpork and with it widespread print media. This would have a profound effect anywhere, so I’m really curious about what will unfold in this unique setting. I’m only 30 pages or so in so far, but I’m hoping I can get a lot more done soon.

Stung with Love Poems and Fragments I also started reading Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho, a book collecting all of the surviving poems and fragments by the well-known Greek poet. I’ve only read a section on poems about Goddesses so far, as there was actually a good deal of front matter to this book giving more context to what we know about Sappho as a figure. I found this most interesting as a look into just how fragmentary surviving art and history can be. There are plenty of references to her work and skill as a great poet throughout histoyr, but comparatively little of her actual work has survived up to now. It’s surreal to see ancient Roman sources cited, who would’ve had direct access to her work, and having to base our understanding of it off of theirs. I don’t know how quickly I’ll finish this, it’s not very long, but I likely won’t give full updates like this each week if my progress is slow.

Recently Finished

Last week I finally finished reading Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy. Things finally came to a head in the story in the final chapters, and in true Southern Reach fashion I had only a vague understanding of what was really going on, except for a few certainties that were quite apparent. I really liked that a prevailing feeling I had throughout the book without a single explicit indicator to it was made to be right. I know it’s a 10-year-old book, but I don’t want to ruin it for anybody who may be interested, so I’m being vague myself. Despite the fact that I had trouble finding good momentum with reading this book, I did really enjoy it, and I’m happy with how it concluded. I’m wondering if Acceptance will hold any real, concrete answers or if I should resign myself to being in the dark about a lot of it, even at the very end.

Reading Next

I’ve not decided anything that I want to read next with certainty, but with October just around the corner I am starting to consider what horror books I think I can get through. My reading speed has been a little stunted this year, which is really bothering me, so I’m worried I won’t be able to do more than one average-sized novel. We shall see.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – August 21, 2024

August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 Ryan1 Comment

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

Authority Ended up taking a weird hiatus these past few weeks, as I’ve ended up not posting a single thing since July 31st. Initially, I just skipped the first Wednesday of August because I wanted more to show for it, but now I’ve nearly missed three in a row. In this time I’ve read a fair amount, though regrettably I’m still making my way through Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. Partly, this is because I decided to shift my focus other places; I still think I can get this book done before the end of the month. However, I am finding the book a little too slow, despite the fact that I do in fact like it a lot. Some things are unraveling and being revealed at the point in the story I’m at, but I still feel a little at a loss as to what it’s all building toward and what’s at stake. There are also some narrative devices that I’m not 100% sold on, but I think I can come around on them. We’ll see. I’m being vague because I don’t want to spoil things too much, even though this book is 10 years old now.

Recently Finished

Jim Henson Storyteller Fairies I’ve actually finished quite a lot in the intervening time, which I’m happy about, most of them being comics. They’re library books rather than from my personal backlog, so I’m sorry to say I still haven’t gotten to some of those, but I’m still pleased with the results anyway. Over the past few weeks I’ve read two more volumes from the Jim Henson’s The Storyteller series of anthologies: Fairies and Sirens. I really liked the Fairies volume, the writers have a greater wealth of folklore from around the world to pull from, as you can be very broad when considering something as related to fairies. Sirens, on the other hand, was a bit weaker. The stories were just not as interesting, though not poorly illustrated or written, and as a theme it just felt a little more tenuous. One of them is about a goddess from China that’s half snake, which barely counts, while none of them include sirens from actual Greek mythology.

What I mainly shifted my focus toward was getting Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar done in time to get it back to the library, as somebody else had put a hold on it. I don’t know if I’ll be reviewing this one, but I will say here that I really loved this book. I have trouble with nonfiction sometimes, but Eichar did a really great job presenting this story and tying it together with his own experiences before bringing it all together with a satisfying theory about what actually happened on that mountain that fateful night that resulted in nine hikers fleeing the safety of their tent into the freezing dead of night, leading to their deaths from exposure. Where before my familiarity with this mystery was based on a lot of hearsay and sensationalism, I’ve come away from this book with a much deeper understanding of what took place leading up to the incident, the aftermath, and a likely explanation of what could actually have happened. Highly recommend this one to lovers of nonfiction.

Reading Next

Stung with Love Poems and Fragments I’m still going to be working away at Authority for the next couple of weeks, but I’ve also taken a new book out of the library: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho. As I understand it, the book collects translations of all the surviving work of the Greek poet Sappho. I try to push myself to read poetry from time to time, and while I’ve bristled a little with modern stuff, I’ve always wanted to give her work a closer look, so I was happy to discover that the library has a volume that can satisfy that curiosity. I’ve got a number of novels in mind that I want to read next, but I haven’t settled on one yet. There’s a number I still want to read this year that I’m realizing I likely won’t get to, which is disappointing. So it goes.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – July 31, 2024

July 31, 2024 Ryan1 Comment

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I’m still working my way through Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, and it’s unfortunately at a slower pace than I would like, though I’m nearly 100 pages further than I was last week. I’m continuing to enjoy the atmosphere of this book, for the most part, especially in how lost and ineffectual the Southern Reach reach is as an institute. It’s becoming more and more clear that Area X has been infecting them in subtle ways over the years, though how and how much isn’t quite clear, as the entire situation is terribly nebulous and hard for any of the characters to wrap their heads around. I am finding I like this novel less than Annihilation thanks to the resulting slow pace, however. It does feel immersive with Control’s struggles to get a handle on things, but the stagnating and obtuse atmosphere is ultimately having a double-edged effect.

I also decided to start reading Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar, a nonfiction book from 2013 about the Dyatlov Pass Incident where a group of nine hikers in Soviet-era Siberia when missing and were subsequently found dead under mysterious circumstances. Though I’m not inclined to believe anything paranormal was involved, it’s still a captivating mystery, and I’ve seen a few book recommendation videos list it among good nonfiction reads. So far, at about 50 pages in, I am enjoying it quite well. I will unfortunately struggle to keep the Russian names straight, which I hope I will come around on by the time I’m done, but otherwise the readability is very good. I’m looking forward to seeing if there’s any new or compelling information presented here that paints a different picture than other sources I’ve seen talk about this incident.

Recently Finished

The Flintstones Vol 1 Since last week I’ve read the two volumes of The Flintstones Mark Russell and Steve Pugh, which I found a lot more enjoyable than I was even expecting to, and already I had good hopes for it. It turned out be a really amusing, satirical spin on the old cartoon while still maintaining the spirit of what I remember from watching the show when I was younger. Standout details for me include the fact that Bedrock was founded after committing a genocide, which Fred and Barney participated in, and the fact that the animal appliances, which only we as the reader can understand, suffer under their plight of being treated like household objects instead of living things. Despite how heavy that might sound, there’s enough levity throughout these stories to balance things out and an absence of heavy-handedness in how they’re presented that it really hits the mark.

Reading Next

Not sure what I’ll be reading next, I’ve got a lot on the go right now. Rest assured, it will probably be a comic of some kind; I’ve still got to keep up getting through those.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – July 24, 2024

July 24, 2024 Ryan1 Comment

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I’m still plodding along with Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy, though I haven’t read as much as I feel I should’ve in the intervening two weeks. Still, at exactly 100 pages into it I’m both puzzled and continue to be intrigued. The tone of this novel, despite having a very different narrative approach and setting, is a little dreamlike in a way that I can’t quite put my finger on. In many respects, Control’s point of view helps ground the reader, yet the situation at the Southern Reach is just so odd. Nobody can confidently quantify or understand much of anything about Area X, yet they persist as an institution, albeit a waning one, and he’s met with such passive resistance, vague answers to his questions, and oddities in the old director’s office that it feels almost feverish.

Recently Finished

Over the weekend I finally finished reading Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert, which took quite a bit longer than I expected it to. It’s clearly meant to be a larger project, so I’m not sure why I assumed it was the length of a regular trade paperback. This definitely isn’t a favourite among Gaiman’s work, but he did manage to make the characters really compelling in a rather unlikely setting. The main weakness I’d say this book has is that it is trying to include an awful lot of major characters at once, so it sometimes felt all over the place. I enjoyed those who were more fleshed out, but it felt like we couldn’t get in too deep with their own personal stories for the sake of the universe-shattering problem they must come together and solve. This overarching plot was fine, but everything else the characters had going on was actually a lot more interesting to me, so I couldn’t help but feel disappointed by the end. Sure, the universe was saved, but so much feels unresolved.

Reading Next

The Flintstones Vol 1 I found some comics at the library that caught my eye, so it’s likely I’ll be reading them soon; I picked up The Flintstones volumes 1 and 2 by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh. These two volumes are part of DC’s Hanna-Barbera Beyond imprint that gives a more modern and adult interpretation to these classic cartoons. I’ve heard a lot of interesting things about these books, such as Fred and Wilma’s monogamy being controversial in their community, so I’m excited to get a closer look at what the overall story will be about. I’ve got another library book I’m tentatively planning to start reading too, but I want to hold off on any commitments to that right now, as I borrowed it somewhat impulsively.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – July 10, 2024

July 10, 2024 Ryan5 Comments

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I’ve started a couple of new thing since last week. First up we have Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, the second novel in the Southern Reach trilogy. I’m pleased to learn that this novel’s narrative is different from Annihilation in a way that I anticipated; where that first book was actually a field journal, this one is told more traditionally, from the point of view of a new interim director at the Southern Reach. Though I’m not actually very far into it thus far, it has already been rather tantalizing, as 3 of the 4 members of the twelfth expedition have been found outside of Area X, including the biologist, the protagonist of the first book. Their true nature, however, remains to be seen. I’m enjoying this new perspective character too, and I’m looking forward to the greater insight his point of view will provide into the institution researching Area X.

I also finally started reading Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert, a retelling of the Marvel universe set in the 17th century. I’m enjoying it well enough so far, though the couple of chapters I have read feel like they’re dealing more with setup, so the story doesn’t feel like its really gotten moving yet. Still, it’s a unique setting for these characters, and I’m enjoying the ways that Gaiman has interpreted them for this it, though I don’t believe I’ve met all the characters who will be making an appearance yet. The most surprising was Rohjaz, a towering Native American who is inexplicably white of skin and blue-eyed, which the story explains through contact with Welsh traders before Columbus “discovered” the continent. It took me embarrassingly long to realize this is supposed to be Steve Rogers; though it feels a little odd, I appreciate that Gaiman made him firmly American rather than a European colonist.

Recently Finished

Nothing this week.

Reading Next

This is Where We Talk Things Out I’m pretty focused on what I’m in the middle of right now, so I haven’t made any big decisions about what I want to be reading next, though I do feel it should probably be a Discworld novel. As a shorter outing, however, I have been thinking about reading the novella This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, a horror story that I’ve heard can be read in a sitting or two. I should make an effort with shorter prose too, so perhaps I’ll be reading this sometime soon. Otherwise, I really need to keep thinking about what comics to read next.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.