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Whistle ★★★A new YA Gotham hero is born when a Jewish teenage girl is scratched by Killer Croc and her DNA gets mixed with a great dane's giving her dog powers. It's a really dumb origin played seriously.
They Fell from the Sky ★★★A comic about a 12-year old who finds an alien when it crash lands behind his house. There's a lot of E.T. in this.
Metropolis Grove ★★A middle grade comic about three friends finding Bizarro living in the woods.
Nottingham ★★★A grimdark reimagining of the Robin Hood story where the Merry Men are evil and the Sheriff of Nottingham is using his detective skills to track them down.
Livewire ★★★A self-righteous Livewire continues to learn nothing after killing thousands of people when she caused a blackout across the U.S.
Becstar ★★★A solid sci-fi comic about a mercenary who gets drug back into a conflict when her former leader starts killing off all the old members of her group to steal their cursed weapons.
The Pride Omnibus ★★★A generous 3 stars for an indie comic about the world's first LGBTQIA+ super team. Great idea but put together shoddily.
The Disney Bros.: The Fabulous Story of Walt and Roy ★★★A biography comic about Walt and Roy Disney that focuses mainly on their curmudgeonly business practices.
The Neil Gaiman Library, Volume 3 ★★★★Collects a bunch of Neil Gaiman short stories that have been adapted to comics.
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre ★★★★An excellent primer for Black Wall Street. It introduces most of the prominent black people that made the area so successful and goes over what happened to cause the Tulsa race massacre.
Icarus (The Longest Fall, #1) ★★★Something of a reimagining of the Heaven and Hell mythos as a fantasy tale.
Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem ★★★A grandfather creates a golem to protect his village from Nazis.
Black Star ★★★A cat and mouse story with a sci-fi twist.
Not Alone ★★★Two strangers meet while trying to survive a zombie apocalypse with a heavy dose of sarcasm.
Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest: A Marvel Heroines Novel ★★★★A story about an obscure badass monster hunter in the Marvel universe.
The Breaker Omnibus Vol 1 ★★For some reason a martial arts master is hiding out as a substitute teacher and begrudgingly befriends a loser kid who is severely beaten up several times by a group of classmates.
Hard Melody ★★The story of a band who breaks up at twenty going their separate ways only to meet again at thirty and reflecting back on the hard times in between.
Barbalien: Red Planet ★★★★Barbalien has always been an analog of Martian Manhunter with the twist that he's gay. This origin story is set during the AIDS Crisis of the 80's.
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence ★★★★A memoir of Gill's childhood, growing up poor and black in the burgeoning crack era of the 80's. Constantly pushed to fight to defend himself, Gill reflects on a childhood where the have-nots look to take out upon one another in a culture learned from older children and adults.
The Library of the Dead ★★★★Ropa takes care of her younger sister and Gran as a Ghosttalker. Ghosts speak to her and she delivers their messages to loved ones for a fee. She finds out children are going missing from a new ghost who was the mother of one of the missing children.
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem ★★★The series juts ahead 10 years where all the Killjoys have grown up and gotten jobs, falling into the same traps they'd always looked out for.
We Live, Vol. 1 ★★★★On a ravaged future Earth, 5,000 children strive to make it to extraction points before the earth is destroyed. The art and coloring in this is fantastic.
Crude: A Battle Against Big Oil ★★★★Details a 25+ year battle to get Texaco / Chevron to be held accountable for destroying the Amazon rain forest in Equador.
Static ★One of the worst things I've read in a while.
Crossover, Vol. 1: Kids Love Chains ★★★★When a mega comic book event crossover manifests in our universe, what happens?
Alexander wrote: "Chad, your Brindille link doesn't work."Thanks, Alexander. It's fixed now.
Tried catching up on some ARCs while it poured down rain here all weekend.
The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian Stories ★★★An interesting group of folk tales from the Pacific Isles with some so-so art.
Brindille ★★★★The artwork is just gorgeous. The book reminds me of Bone without the humor. It's got that animated Disney look to the art.
Love: The Mastiff ★★★The fifth in Brremaud and Bertolucci's wordless Love series of graphic novels focusing on different animals. The Mastiff follows a hunting mastiff in Australia. After his master is killed, he has to track through the deadly wilderness ito find his way home.
Savage: The Wild ★I'd rather sit through a root canal than be forced to read this again. Savage is a Tarzan ripoff for Generation Z. Valiant you used to make such great comics. What happened?
Kane & Able ★★★An anthology of over the top, ultra-violent comics that don't make the most sense.
Jim Lives: The Mystery of the Lead Singer of the Doors and the 27 Club ★★A strange, confusing story about a journalist who swears he saw Jim Morrison in Italy and disappears.
Van Helsing vs. Dracula's Daughter ★★★Part of Zenescope's Grimm Universe, Van Helsing's daughter heads back into action when Dracula's bones are stolen by his daughter.
Mawrth Valliis ★★Billed as a story being reprinted in its original Martian form, all the lettering is in Martian. In essence, making this a wordless graphic novel.
Dreaming Eagles ★★★★★The story of a black veteran who flew fighter planes as part of the Red Tails in World War II. His story is told through a framing sequence of the man talking with his adult son who is getting involved in Dr. King's civil rights rallies.
Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 9 ★★★★Collects the last 2 Dark Horse trades along with all of the crossovers with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx ★★★Incredibly detailed artwork of animals in decay. Technically the art was stunning. The subject matter was not my scene though.
Home Sick Pilots, Vol. 1 ★★★★The story follows three foster kids who start a band in SoCal in 1994. Then one of them enters a haunted house and establishes a rapport with it.
Stranger Things: Science Camp ★★Another one of the fluff Stranger Things comics.
PamG wrote: "Can you set up the What's on your June 2021 TBR list Thread?Also, can you archive the TBR threads for February through April? Thanks!"
Done.
What do you plan on reading for June 2021?
Caught up on some of my arcs this week. 
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory ★★★Some solid Viking comics that also serve as a prequel to Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Shaolin Cowboy: Who'll Stop the Reign? ★★★★Darrow lets all his demons pour out into this hyper-violent, ultra-detailed, fight fest.
Stargazer ★★★Some kids are abducted by aliens and are revisited years later.
Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel ★★★★True story about a group of students doing what they can to oppose Hitler in Nazi Germany.
Wahcommo ★★★Your standard fantasy quest story.
Grumble Vol. 3: Memphis and Beyond the Infinite ★★★★Eddie, the human con man turned pug, and half-demon, Tala, team up with some interdimensional wrestlers to break her mom out of jail. Hijinks abound in this incredibly fun series.
The Winter of Walking Stone: Book 3 ★★★I enjoyed this graphic novel for children. It has a Disney fairy tale type vibe with a young girl running a magical castle.
The Cimmerian Vol 2 ★★★★Two more European adaptations of Conan more famous stories in People of the Black Circle and The Frost Giant's Daughter.
Gunland, Volume 3: Coda ★★★This third volume of Gunland was one big final battle between the Doolin brothers. It was fine but missing some of the weird inventiveness that made the first 2 volumes so interesting.
John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids: Sacred Hearts ★★★This starts off as a fine book for all ages with a supernatural tilt. However, there's some very graphic violence in the second half with people getting ripped to pieces.
The Spy Who Raised Me ★★This was a weird but interesting idea for a graphic novel aimed for children. It's about a teenager who has been programmed as a spy by her mother.
Brandon Sanderson's Dark One ★★★★Sanderson has always been a great world builder. That trend continues here.
Michael Turner Creations: Featuring Fathom, Soulfire, and Ekos ★★★This massive tome from a Kickstarter collects all of Michael Turner's work at Aspen Comics from 1998 until his death in 2008.
Teddy ★★★Teddy Roosevelt's life told through the lens of a speech given late in his life.
Primo Levi ★★★★Details Primo Levi's time in Auschwitz concentration camp as an Italian jew.
Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek ★★★★No one does crazy, chaotic, hyper-violent action sequences like Geof Darrow. This book and especially the fight sequences are insane.
The Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet ★★★The Shaolin Cowboy destroys zombies in a choreographed ballet of violence. The 2 page fight scenes go on wordlessly for over 100 pages of zombie annihilation.
Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor ★★★An unauthorized biography where we learn Jeff Goldblum is a nice guy repeatedly.
The Tankies ★★★★★Three related comics about the British Tankies, the men who were the tank crews in World War II and Korea. This was fantastic.
Banksy Graffitied Walls and Wasn't Sorry. ★★★★A children's book that explores the life of Banksy.
Mongolian Wind : The Art of Lu Ming ★★★Eh. Your standard art book.
The Best Thing You Can Steal ★★★★★It's about a group of thieves who steal supernatural objects from awful people. A great new urban fantasy series from the author of the Nightside books.
Killer Rain ★The writing is so strange it felt like it was written by an A.I. trying to pass itself off as human.
PamG wrote: "I managed to finish all 15 of my April TBR books."That's a great accomplishment.
Geoff wrote: "Just wanted to write a quick note of thanks to Chad and Tracy Marie for all y'all do as moderators. I appreciate it!"You're welcome Geoff. But seriously it's not a whole lot.
