I'm intrigued by this villains/anti-heroes anthology! It's kind of a mixed bag for me. Chris Claremont's Magneto story didn't really break any new ground for that character, but whatever, I'm not mad about more of Magneto's reflections about injustice.

I liked the Mystique and Emma Frost stories. The Mojo one was funny (written by Scott Aukerman so it should be!) but also kind of gross (not just because of Mojo's whole deal but also the way he was rewarded for his terrible behavior with a cute geek girlfriend? ughh). I didn't care for the Juggernaut or Apocalypse stories at alllllll.

Does my judgment of these stories also line up exactly with how much I like these characters in general: more or less yes.

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Uhhh I watched the show and the whole time I was watching it I was like, "I can't tell if I like this??" But ultimately I finished the season. I was invested in most of the characters even if I was eternally confused about what was happening. So I thought I'd check out the book, and the book I felt had the opposite issue--I could more or less follow what was happening (it's still weird obv) but the characters, at least in volume 1, were barely developed at all.

The art is cool and weird.

Honestly I just want #JUSTICE4VANYA will someone please tell me if I will find that in the next 2 volumes? I'll read them if so.

I guess I feel the same way about these comics as I did about the show, which is that I can't quite tell if I enjoy them or not but I feel compelled to continue on with them? I think this volume did flesh out the characters a bit more than the first one but I still think the comics are much more plot-oriented than the show is, which isn't my personal fave thing? idk idk. The art continues to be appropriately weird and cool. Still waiting for #JUSTICE4VANYA.

I used to be an active reader of Heather's blog Dooce.com but I kind of lost track of it as the internet evolved. Anyway, so I have been a longtime fan of her sharp, funny, honest writing style, and this was a great big dose of that, even as she's dealing with a very heavy topic. It felt a bit like I'd skipped a previous volume of this--I understand that she must have had to be very careful writing about her ex for legal reasons, but in some cases that did lead to sort of mysterious holes in the story?

But regardless, this is a great fan for memoir readers and also anyone who has experience with depression and/or is interested in trying to better understand one person's experience with severe depression?

I was condescendingly expecting this book to be some kind of bland aphorisms about the meaning of life and instead I found it a TRULY UPSETTING AND GRIM VISION OF THE AFTERLIFE

https://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-124-the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven/

SERIOUSLY I THINK THIS IS HELL AND I'M HAUNTED BY IT

This was very validating to read!!! I also thought that it might have some kind of cathartic effect and make me feel less mad about the state of things but it actually just made me more mad!! AUGH

I enjoyed this like, way more than I anticipated. Just like some really delicious trash. Recommended for fans of Vanderpump Rules.

People have been telling me to read this for years and I finally did! It was really cute and fun!

I didn't realize this was a reprint of an earlier book. I hadn't read it before, but it was a little confusing to me because I read (and loved) [b:We Are Never Meeting In Real Life|33381433|We Are Never Meeting In Real Life|Samantha Irby|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1530160228s/33381433.jpg|54123625] which is also autobiographical essays, and then I thought this was newer but everything in it is like...earlier in time. So anyway if you can read copyright dates or whatever that won't be an issue for you!

Anyway, she did have a note explaining that these have been revised/polished since their initial publication (which I did read but assumed meant from when they were on her blog or something? Not like, when they were published in 2013? but ok). But they still feel pretty unpolished? Like I enjoyed reading them and I, as always, enjoyed the raw honesty but, well, it's not as good as her 2nd book. Which is good--she's grown as a writer! I just thought this was her 2nd book! And it's not! So be advised I guess?!

I meant to re-read this when the show started, and then I didn't get around to it, and then I did re-read Good Omens before that show started, and anyway, here we are.

I was glad to sit down and revisit this as an adult, because this was truly such an important book to me as a #teen and I was curious to see how it held up. I think it's probably impossible for me to get an objective read on this--as I re-read it I could just remember how much so many passages of this absolutely shook me and changed the way I thought about myth/religion/The Power of Stories/etc.

There were definitely aspects of this that I didn't like, love this time around (it's WAY hornier than I remembered???), but mostly...I can't help it, I hecking love this book.