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REVIEW: Ray Nadine’s Light Carries On Is A Low Key, Punk Rock Love Story That’ll Save Your Life

May 17, 2023

Light Carries On is a haunting love story that surreptitiously defies your tired expectations to surprise you with genuine empathy, healing and joy. Light Carries On Ray Nadine Dark Horse Books May 16, 2023 Light Carries On opens with Leon, our romantic lead, simmering with dissatisfaction. ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

Catch These Hands! is a Sweet, Romantic Treat

October 5, 2022

If you were a Fruits Basket teen and felt that Arisa Uotani should’ve been queer, I’ve got good news for you! Catch These Hands! is here to grant your wish. Catch These Hands! finds Ayako Takebe, a former delinquent, lost in her adulthood. As a teen Takebe was one of the best fighters around, ...

Manga, Reviews

REVIEW: Boys Run The Riot Runs The Manga Section

May 18, 2022

Boys Run the Riot is an LGBT manga series with a transmasculine lead written and drawn by Keito Gaku (and team). This introductory volume to the series is a poignant and hilarious romp through gender discrimination, high school, punk philosophy, following your dreams, and how fashion is often a ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Apocalyptigirl: An Aria for the End Times: Intended Audience and Its Role in the Commentary of Victimhood

December 3, 2021

Apocalyptigirl: An Aria for the End Times by Andrew Maclean is one of the best graphic novels I’ve read. When folks ask me what my recommendations are for their next read, it is always at the top of the list — especially when those folks have a young adult daughter as there are not ...

Bookmarked, Comics, Con Diaries

Comic-Con@Home: Tor Teen Says the Trope Does not Apply

July 26, 2021

Tor Teen: Who Runs the World: Stories of Female Empowerment: The future of SFF is feminist AF. Join your favorite Tor Teen YA authors Bethany C. Morrow (A Chorus Rises), Elayne Audrey Becker (Forestborn), Susan Dennard (Witchshadow), Sarah Henning (The Queen Will Betray You), and Shannon Price ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Black Hole Heart Explores Friendship through Horror

September 29, 2020

I am the kind of person who wants everything to make sense, and for everything to have a reason. Perhaps paradoxically, I also LOVE horror, a genre where questions often go unanswered, or the source of the horror is never fully explained. Horror stories examine relationships in ways that don’t ...

Comics, Reviews, Webcomics

Insta Made Me Read It: UnOrdinary and Rot & Ruin

April 1, 2020

Insta Made Me Read It is a bimonthlyish column covering a selection of those comics which are promoted on the official Webtoon Instagram account! Every time I take a look at two comics which I’ve seen on Instagram to get an impression of what’s a) popular and b) rewarded on Webtoon, a massive ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

Stage Dreams is the Comic Queer and Trans Teens Deserve

October 16, 2019

Stage Dreams Mel Gillman Lerner Publishing/Graphic Universe September 3, 2019 A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Three years ago, I interviewed incredible color pencil artist Mel Gillman about Stage Dreams, a young adult graphic novel they ...

Comics, Reviews

Underwhelmed with Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale

June 14, 2019

Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale Deron Bennett (letterer), Isaac Goodhart (artist), Jeremy Lawson (colourist) and Lauren Myracle (writer) DC Ink (a DC Comics imprint) May 1, 2019 Content Warning for mention and depiction of child abuse. In March 2015, I hosted a Gotham Academy roundtable ...

Bookmarked, Lists

Read-Alikes: Welcome to the Fantastic Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones

October 23, 2018

When I was a kid, I read my paperback copy of Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones so many times that the binding fell apart. As much as I enjoyed it, I remember having a lot of questions during my rereads. For example, I can remember wondering, “Why does it seem like I am supposed to know who ...

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REVIEW: Ray Nadine’s Light Carries On Is A Low Key, Punk Rock Love Story That’ll Save Your Life

Catch These Hands! is a Sweet, Romantic Treat

REVIEW: Boys Run The Riot Runs The Manga Section

Apocalyptigirl: An Aria for the End Times: Intended Audience and Its Role in the Commentary of Victimhood

Comic-Con@Home: Tor Teen Says the Trope Does not Apply

REVIEW: Black Hole Heart Explores Friendship through Horror

Insta Made Me Read It: UnOrdinary and Rot & Ruin

Stage Dreams is the Comic Queer and Trans Teens Deserve

Underwhelmed with Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale

Read-Alikes: Welcome to the Fantastic Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones

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