Chad’s Comments (group member since Oct 24, 2019)

Chad’s comments from the Edelweiss & Netgalley Reviewers group.

Alexander wrote: "Your Postal review also links to your EXO review.."

It's fixed. That's what I get for posting while sitting in a meeting for work.

E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams Volume 1 ★★★
The story of a Nigerian Iron Man.

Postal: The Complete Collection ★★★★
Postal is the tale of a small town, Eden, Wyoming, which doesn't exist. It's a town not on any map. It's not in government records. It's where the worst criminals go when they have nowhere else, to start over.

Mister Miracle: The Great Escape ★★★
This was OK. It's a YA version of Mister Miracle's and Big Barda's time growing up in Granny Goodness's orphanage.

Magical History Tour #4: The Crusades ★★★★
These historical primer comics for kids are great. This one did a great job of simplifying 200 years of the Crusades.

Out of the Blue: The Complete Series ★★★★
Garth Ennis continues his streak of fantastic war comics.

Love Me Please!: The Story of Janis Joplin ★★★★
A very good way to quickly learn about an artist who died before I was even born but made music that has lived on way past her death.

School of X: A Marvel: Xavier's Institute Anthology ★★★★
A collection of prose short stories about the students of the New Charles Xavier School for Gifted Mutants from the Brian Michael Bendis era of the X-Men.

Geiger, Vol. 1 ★★★★★
Given the glut of post-apocalyptic comics out there trying to come up with original ways for the world to end, I found this refreshing to go with the old standby boogie man I grew up with in the 70's and 80's, nuclear war.

Home, Vol. 1 ★★★
Raises the question "What if the X-Men were born in Central America and tried to immigrate to the U.S. during the Trump administration?"

Fine Print, Volume 1 ★★
This feels like a bunch of disparate ideas Sejic had and then tried to figure out how to put them all together. It's about a screw up succubus looking for a "golden contract" and a world of succubus and cupids having sex in secret.

Shadecraft, Vol. 1 ★★★★★
Zadie is struggling to survive high school when she begins to suspect shadows are following her. We find out her brother was in a car wreck a year ago and is now in a coma. Soon after her shadow begins talking to her...

Helm Greycastle, Book One ★★
This was just odd. Your traditional Dungeons and Dragons party gets dumped into the middle of the Aztec Empire and are enlisted to overthrow Montezuma.

Overwatch: Tracer--London Calling ★★★
Tracer from the game Overwatch gets her own miniseries.

Laurel wrote: "I recently noticed that some titles that are open for request are already published. Has anyone requested a copy like that and gotten approved? I figure I'll have to check the publish date before r..."

Some publishers forget to close them out. Quite a few of the smaller publishers leave them open on purpose as they are just happy to get more reviews and will approve the request even if it's a year after publication. The worst that happens is you never get a response.

Syphon ★★★★
A paramedic is given the ability to syphon other people's pain away, although it then goes into him. After he discovers someone else like him, he realizes he can syphon other emotions as well. It's an interesting take on an empath.

Small World ★★★
A strange, hyperviolent, cyberpunk Peter Pan set in the favelas of Brazil.

M.O.M.: Mother of Madness ★★
Emilia Clarke (Daenerys from Game of Thrones) wrote a comic about a woman who gains superpowers at a certain time each month.

Leone: Notes on a Life ★★
Gorgeous art but not much of a story.

All of Us Villains ★★★★
Harry Potter (well, House Slythern) meets The Hunger Games in this new YA series.

Solar Flare: Port Charlotte ★★★★
The premise of this comic is that a giant solar flare set off a world-wide EMP that destroyed all electronics.

The Mall ★★★
Goodfellas meets The Breakfast Club.

Solar Flare ★★★
Solar Flare is a The Walking Dead type post-apocalyptic drama that takes place in Florida (Although I think the apocalypse happened there years ago). A solar flare has caused a massive EMP, destroying electronics across the world.

The Dark ★★
There's just too many disparate elements conflicting in this cyperpunk near-future tale. It made the story hard to follow as Sable tried to shove every near-future fear together into one short tale.

Geoff wrote: "Happy 2022 everyone! Thankfully Colorado finally got some snow out of the mountains. Hoping for a healthy, safe year for all of you filled with great books!"

Was that enough to put out the wildfires?

Stealing Home ★★★★
A historical graphic novel for middle school aged children about how Japanese-Canadians were forced into Relocation Camps after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Marvel Meow ★★
Captain Marvel's alien cat, Chewie, wreaks havoc in wordless one page strips across the Marvel Universe.

Halo: Legacy Collection ★★★★
Reprints the first 3 Halo miniseries from Marvel.

CREMA ★★
A ghostly, lesbian romance.

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye ★★★★★
Good god, that art! Miller is a master of using negative space. These pages are just gorgeous and so original looking.

I Walk With Monsters ★★★★
This was terrific. It's about a girl and a shapeshifter who seek out and kill serial killers.

Witches Unleashed: A Marvel Untold Novel ★★★★
Ghost Rider teams up with three witches to hunt down Lucifer in this latest Marvel prose novel.

The Hellbound Volume 1 ★★
So the director of Train to Busan wrote a comic. Unfortunately, it's boring.

Tremor Dose ★★
Begins as a story about students at a college who all have the same man appearing in their dreams. The second half dissolves into dream within a dream with a dream ad infinitum to the point where you've never really sure what the truth was.

Immortals Fenyx Rising: From Great Beginnings ★★★
An irreverent take on the Greek Gods based on the video game.

She Could Fly Volume 3: Fight or Flight ★★★
Finally, a straight forward story in this final volume of a girl with mental problems and a jet pack.

Resonant Vol. 2: Spiraling ★★★
The premise and setting is very similar to The Walking Dead. Just instead of zombies, we have bouts of The Wave where everyone goes crazy violent while they are happening.

I Will Not Die Alone ★★★
A series of daily affirmations brought to life with some humorous illustrations of anthropomorphic animals realizing an asteroid is headed to Earth.

Enigma: The Definitive Edition ★★★★
Michael is a very mundane gentleman begins to awaken when characters from his favorite comic book come alive and start murdering people until each time they are stopped by The Enigma. Is Michael somehow causing this? Is it the writer of The Enigma?

Resident Alien Volume 6: Your Ride's Here ★★★★
After years, Harry's finally been signaled that his ride home is here. But will he go or does he enjoy his life on Earth too much?

X-O Manowar Book 1 ★★
I was really underwhelmed with this. All of the things that make Aric unique are missing. That's he's a man out of time. He's basically Conan in the Iron Man suit. That's all glossed over and replaced with a homeless Aric living in NYC trying to help people and screwing up royally each time until he gets some PR help from a billionaire.

The Cimmerian Vol 3 ★★★
Lots of great drama and action in this German comic set in a post-apocalyptic future where ape-like creatures have killed off most of humanity.

The Sleepover ★★★
A spooky story for kids about a new nanny who is really a witch. It's got a Stranger Things vibe to it.

Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat ★★★★
Short tales of how animals helped in various war efforts throughout history. Some are common knowledge such as war horses and carrier pigeons while others are thing like how slugs were used to detect mustard gas and rats were trained to sniff out landmines in Vietnam.

Project MK-Ultra: Sex, Drugs and the CIA ★★★
A story with art just as trippy as its subject matter. It's the story of a journalist investigating the CIA's involvement with the proliferation of LSD as part of the MK-Ultra project.

Gung-Ho Vol 2 ★★★★
Lots of great drama and action in this German comic set in a post-apocalyptic future where ape-like creatures have killed off most of humanity.

Madman Library Edition Volume 1 ★★★★★
Mike Allred has always been one of my favorite artists. I just love his retro, clean style. His Madman stories bring in lots of elements of 1950's sci-fi kitsch. I love that his weapons are a yo-yo and a disk gun. (I'll be honest. I walked around with a Madman yo-yo for a good 10 years before it finally broke. That's how much of an influence the character had on me.) His comics are just so much damn fun.

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour ★★★★
The gripping story about how the U.S. prevailed over the Japanese Navy in World War II against overwhelming odds.

PamG wrote: "Can you add the 'What's on your December 2021 TBR list?" thread? Thanks."

Done. :)