I spent years seeing out of context Deadpool panels floating around the Internet, always intending to actually read Deadpool at some point. It seemed like if I had a chance of getting into anything vaguely superhero-y, Deadpool would be it. But I'm great at procrastinating, so it took me until after seeing the movie to check out the comic. Oops.

This is the first and only Deadpool I've read, so I'm probably not the best person to review it. That said, I found all the arcs collected here to be very fun and funny in the best kind of irreverent, bloody, surprisingly deep way. Deadpool becoming aware of his existence as a fictional construct and deciding to destroy the entire Marvel universe to release everyone from the miserable cycle of continuity? And then realizing that he needs to kill the classic archetypes underpinning all later fiction to create a cataclysmic ripple effect all the way up to superheroes? And then killing an infinity of alternate universe Deadpools? Yes, please. That's the kind of crazy shit I want.

Deadpool vs. Carnage read more like the typical sausage party that a lot of mainstream comics feel like to me, so it wasn't my thing as much. But it's followed by Night of the Living Deadpool, which is satisfyingly stylish enough to distract from its minor pacing issues.

So, yeah. Not sure if this was the right place to start with Deadpool, but I've started, and I love it, and I want more.

Typically I don't add cute children's books that I skim at the circ desk on Goodreads, but this one is different. I admit that I took advantage of a slow moment to be very unprofessional and read this while carting books, and it's so completely adorable that I wanted to remember it for recommending (or for buying for future kids). I mean, it's a manual on how to be a dog written from the perspective of a dog who has found a home. That's exactly the kind of stuff that warms my heart and makes me cry. Plus one of the dogs looks like my Sophie, so there were plenty of extra feels for me. Just excellent stuff all around.

Finally got around to reading this! It's beautiful and weird and such an interesting mixture of the otherworldly and the familiar. Plus it played right to my sappy side and made me cry a little bit, twice, before I was halfway through. On to the next!

Some truly great meta stuff and an awesome letters section in this issue, but I need the plot to tighten up a bit. Maybe it should do some kegels?

Finally continuing this series! I read the first volume last year, when it came in on hold for me at the library and I didn't know why. (I didn't remember requesting it, but apparently I did. Which turned out in my favor, because I liked it.) I was afraid that with a sizeable time gap between reading volumes 1 and 2, I would have trouble falling back into the story, but that wasn't the case. The action picks up immediately following the plot of the first volume, and expands upon and complicates the relationships introduced therein. I enjoyed watching Ada learn more about her world and her sentience, and I'm interested in the conflicts that are developing. This is a series that I find myself tearing through when I read it, but there's something slightly stilted about the dialogue and art that prevents me from giving a full five stars.