Saturday, May 16, 2020

Tell My Horse Review

tell my horse
Rating: 2.8/5

Synopsis: Zora Neale Hurston's 1938 memoir Tell My Horse details her experience learning about cultural and spiritual traditions in Jamaica and voodoo (aka voudou, vodoun, or vodun) in Haiti.


Friday, May 1, 2020

The Midnight Gospel Season 1 Review


the midnight gospel review

Rating: 4.5/5

Synopsis: Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell's newest animated series for Netflix The Midnight Gospel follows a spacecaster named Clancy Gilroy who resides in "The Chromatic Ribbon" dimension where he runs a universe simulator which he uses to travel to various universes to interview different individuals. Each interview utilizes portions from Trussel's podcast The Duncan Trussel Family Hour.

American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar Review

american splendor the life and times of harvey pekar
Rating: 5/5

Synopsis: American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar collects the two anthology 
collections of Pekar's autobiographical series published from the mid-70s to mid-80s.

Fangs Review

fangs sarah anderson
Rating: 3/5

Synopsis: Sarah Anderson's newest webcomic Fangs is a romantic comedy of cuteness about a 300-year old Vampire named, well, Vamp dating the 20-something werewolf Jimmy.


Meme Girls Review

meme girls
Rating: 3/5

Synopsis: Not much beyond memes being personified as cute anime girls.

Black Hammer, Vol. 4: Age of Doom Part Two Review

black hammer vol 4
Rating: 2/5

Synopsis: Black Hammer, Vol. 4: Age of Doom Part Two concludes the main series's expansive saga as our superheroes needs to band together again to fight the Anti-God.

Guts Review

guts raina telgemeier
Rating: 5/5

 
Synopsis: Raina Telgemeier's newest memoir, Guts, chronicles her struggles living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) during her elementary/middle school years.



Your Letter Review

your letter webtoon
Rating: 5/5

Synopsis: Your Letter is a free-to-read webtoon about a friendly yet severely underappreciated adolescent girl name Sori who is transferred to a different school where she finds a series of letters from a childhood friend.


The Green Hand and Other Stories Review

the green hand
Rating: 4/5

Synopsis: This anthology consists of stories from underground French cartoonist Nicole Claveloux during the 70s and 80s.

The Underwater Welder Review

the underwater welder
Rating: 4/5

Synopsis: Jeff Lemire 4-year project The Underwater Welder follows a 33-year, well, an underwater welder named Jack Joseph who begins to form a morbid obsession over the watch his deceased father gave him after triggering memories and putatively hearing voices of him while on duty.