OK so I haven't read AvX so this only half made sense to me? Which is on me. But also goddammit comic books, this is why nobody likes you, because you can't just read one! You have to read like 20 for anything to make sense!

More sassy one-liners! Fewer crossovers! These are my demands.

This was very upsetting to me personally as someone who a) is v sensitive about bad things happening to animals and b) gets annoyed by too many Fantasy Words Per Page.

Kids go nuts for these though so idk man

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-91-warriors/

Listen: if you'd handed me this book like 2 years ago I'd have been stoked to have a quality prose novel about a comics character! But it's 2018 and now I'm hella spoiled by like Jason Reynolds' Spider-Man book and Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman book, which were amazing! And this one was...fine.

I'm super glad it exists and I think especially tweens who are excited about the Black Panther movie will be into it! For me it was a little clunky, especially with the friendship/bullying dynamics. (This is definitely more of a middle grade novel than YA; which doesn't necessarily mean it's bad but I think in this case it is more simplistic than some of the recent YA superhero novels.)

I also kind of suspect that when Marvel commissioned this book they were like "oh but you can't do it in Wakanda though because we're saving that shit for the movie, so just IDK put it in Chicago I guess" and it's like....



It is great that they got a black author to write a book about a black superhero but I'm stuck wondering if Ronald Smith's Southern gothic horror background is the best fit for Black Panther?? IDK I mean it's interesting but also...like why not a sci-fi thriller? HMM

But also I do like unexpected directions for comics characters sometimes, I guess this one just didn't especially gel for me personally.

This is my first time reading this since high school and it's definitely more misogynist and anti-Semitic than I recall...
But, you know, still funny and insightful. Would watch Dorian Gray's reality television show.

I just love all these characters so much and I treasure their happiness. Like Marissa Meyer could just keep putting out a new book every year that's like "btw they're all still doing great" and I would happily read it.

The art is really fun too, and I especially loved Iko's new look.

first of all why is Mr Sinister's head in a floating bubble on the cover of this volume when he makes nary an appearance in this book, I was so intrigued to see wtf he's been up to

That aside--I'm not the most up-to-date on all the X-books so I had a little bit of a learning curve for following some of the side stories here, but then, when is that not the case?

I liked this fine, it's good to see Bobby dealing with some of his issues, and I'm interested to see where it goes from here. I also really liked Kitty Pryde's sensible-but-justifiably-angry vibe here.

I definitely liked this more than vol 1--now that some of that setup is out of the way, we can get back to Kate Bishop being extremely Kate Bishop. PLUS a crossover with All-New Wolverine?? PLUS Lucky the Pizza Dog and Jonathan the Literal Wolverine are best friends now?????? What's not to love.

A lot of times when books are born out of Twitters or Tumblrs I kind of feel like, "oh this thing was cute in small doses but now I'm tired of this thing."

And, controversial opinion, that's kind of how I felt about this. It's very sweet and cute, but like.....I get it.

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Full disclosure: Batman's not my fave (exceptions: Batman '66 and Lego Batman), but I like Marie Lu and I like the trend of YA superhero prose novels, so I checked this out and enjoyed it honestly way more than I thought I would.

Like Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman novel before it, it does a great job of diversifying Bruce Wayne's world with great side characters of color, including here the compelling villain (OR IS SHE). It also brings in complex ideas of surveillance justice (CLOSE ARKHAM ASYLUM) while still being like....a Batman story (ARKHAM ASYLUM WILL NEVER CLOSE).

I liked this way more than most things we read for Worst Bestsellers, but not as much as I liked Black Hills.

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-92-whiskey-beach/