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S* - Powerpuff Girls vol.2 1-10

I read this just giving it a try, but Troy Little was able to keep you hooked from the beginning and I couldn't stop. Probably the most complex story told with the Powerpuff girls.

R* - TEOTFW vol.0 1

Did you watch "The End of the F***ing World"? Yeah, me too. Now I'm going to read this. I'm likely going to read everything by Charles Forsman eventually. I'll put a hurry on it, though, to actually beat series before they're made into TV by Netflix.

f* - Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics vol.0 1

This is a collection of poems written during World War I as illustrated by modern-day cartoonists, with additional writing by Garth Ennis.

The poet W. B. Yeats notoriously suggested, with these very poets in mind, that "Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry", but Yeats himself was sick and old when he wrote this: he needed to stir up controversy and no doubt didn't want to be reminded of certain things. Besides, people should be allowed to make up their own minds about whether or not a poem is successful.

You'll find Wilfred Owen's humbug-piercing "Dulce et Decorum Est" here, along with poems by Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, and more. And I had forgotten how great a poem was Siegfried Sassoon's "Everyone Sang". The editor, in his very helpful notes, explains that it was not an Armistice poem, as understood by many at the time, but that "its origins are rooted in [Sassoon's] expectations of a socialist revolution after the war". Alas, it was not to be, but the poem transcends its author's intended meaning.

There are some illustrious (mainly alternative) cartoonists here. To name just some of them: Anders Nilsen, Carol Tyler, Eddie Campbell, George Pratt, Hannah Berry, Hunt Emerson, Isabel Greenberg, James Lloyd, Kevin Huizenga, Lilli Carré, Luke Pearson, Peter Kuper, Sammy Harkham, Sarah Glidden, Steve Bissette.

As the editor says, many people, especially Americans, know little about World War I. This may have changed since the Sam Mendes movie, but I think it's worth being reminded.

H* - Castle In the Stars vol.0 1

A really beautiful tale all drawn in aquarel.

It narrates the story of Seraphin, a young boy who's mother died trying to find the mysterious Ether.
Will he be able to follow her path ? what will they find, with his father ?

w* - Moon Knight vol.5 1-14, 188-199

Of all the work Jeff Lemire has done for Marvel and DC, I think this is his best. Many characters that Lemire has written about are haunted by personal demons, and he did an excellent job capturing that in the story of Marc Spector, a.k.a. Moon Knight. Fan of Jeff Lemire? Read it! Enjoy mind-tripping, haunting tales? Read it! Heck, regardless of what you like, just read it!

"He's surrounded by faces: haughty doctor, hostile orderlies, vacant-eyed patients. But maybe those faces are just masks. Some might hide friends, others enemies. Or even worse: gods and monsters! Marc's got to get out. The moon is high, the mask is on - but if he succeeds in escaping, will he find only a city of sand? And what will it mean when Marc Spector comes face-to-face with...Moon Knight?! Everything you know may be wrong - and you'd be insane not to find out for sure!"

After issue 14 Max Bemis takes over writing duties and I had a hard time keeping interested. Fantastic read nonetheless. The last issue released was #200 back in December 2018 it marked the 200th issue of Moon Knight. Hope you enjoy it!

b* - Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me vol.0 1

So I'll be blunt - the reason I even know about this book is a friend asked me why this book was in a bunch of top of 2019 lists, but no one had released it. I had no answer, but it did pique my interest, so I tracked it down and read it. About 1/4 of the way through, I had a ? hovering above my head. What was the fuss about?. The art was nice, sure, but not NICE. I wasn't a fan of the (seemingly random) choice to color bits of every few panels in pink. The book had the trappings of a LBGTQ relationship comic. I wondered which character is going to have their parents disown them? Who's gonna make the half-hearted attempt at a hetero relationship followed by the (re)turn to gay, to provide us with the after-school special conclusion that discrimination is wrooooong. Shit, have I become this jaded?

Long story short, that stuff was all missing... the story is front and center about the relationship between two young women, so this isn't one of those books with gay characters, but their sexuality simply isn't discussed. This is the result of an author daring to imagine a world that could be .. a world of true equality, where parents react to their daughters' issues like they'd react to their sons''. The world these characters exist in is still wishful thinking, but spending some time in it, even during a crisis, was a nice place to be.

The author seemed to have refused most (all?) of the lbgtq tropes. They just made a book about a bunch of high school kids, all of them flawed. . One's a bully, One's stuck in an endless loop filled with abuse and bad decision making. One's responsible and comfortable, but it seems like it took her some time to get to that point. One's super awkward. Their problems are - in general - their own. Parents are supportive, Classmates don't really factor into anything.

So, was this a book of last year? Not for me - I like what they were striving for, and I happened to really like the artwork in this context, but ultimately, it's a good story about HS relationships, but not fantastic. It's an OGN, a lite read, and inkdrop free, so give it a shot.