The combination of Gaiman's prose and story, with its horrifying inversion of the old fairy tale, and Coleen Doran's increddile, lush, rich, fine art makes this one of the most gorgeous comics of the year. A feast for the eyes and the senses. It's fantastic to see the influence of Harry Clarke blazing through into a modern work of fantasy with such stunning effect. Doran deserves all the prizes and plaudits for this gorgeous, chilling, erotic work.

Edited this to make is seem less like I was drunk when I wrote it. And I wasn't, even.

The end of the mind-bending time-hopping headwrecking adventure as the Paper Girls, thrown apart into different eras, struggle to reconnect, reunite and return home. As the twisting story is finally untwisted the paper Girls shine once more, as great a group of friends to hang out with while chased through dimensions by dinosaurs and cavemen.

Well I'm old enough to remember when Giant Days started out black and white and online before suddenly becoming a published mini-series then suddenly becoming an ongoing and one of the best comics of the last decade. here are the early days of the Giant Days, when the girls first meet and start having adventures. It's slightly more surreal than most of the rest of the run, but all the lovability of the three fast friends is established, ready to be built on in the gentle comic epic that charts their college lives.

Daikaiju mean giant monster, and and in this book it also means Die Hard in a building shaped like a giant monster full of all sorts of other monsters, mostly vampires of various sorts. It's a tightly-written high octane widescreen action thriller with vampires and spies and cyborgs and a whole bunch of other stuff. Excellent.

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I am sick and medicated to the eyeballs getting to the end of a book was an acheivement that probably represents my peak moment of 2020 you think I'm going to manage a review as well you must be joking.

I wouldn't want to give the impression that I didn't enjoy this, but Scalzi's style which seems to forsake irony for full-on sarcasm a lot of the time, fully and heroically articulated and embodied by Will Wheaton, wears out its welcome after a while. When the narrative is moving along straighforwardly it's perfectly fine. When characters are being colossal bullies, assholes, showing off how clever they are, taking advantage or exposing new information it can be all a bit samey and even unpleasant. Still, enjoyed it.

A dead prince, a common mistress cast bak into the streets, a young heir, a trapped cousin, a queen of pirates and dark arts, an underground sorceress, a girl made of wax, plotting nobles, a hidden city and a tutor who wishes to write the history of Ombria. A delicate, twisting, touching fairy tale of danger and darkness and hidden doors.

Brilliantly nasty sci-fi horror about ships powered by enslaved gods. Best thing I've read by Scalzi.