Daredevil has traditionally been a superhero I don't really know/care that much about? Except for how amazingly terrible his movie was? Like... so terrible.

Anyway, though, this was on ALA's best graphic novels for teens list so I figured I'd give it a try. I liked it OK? I like the visualizations of how Daredevil's powers work. I didn't like how, within the first few pages, Daredevil kisses the bride at a wedding he's trying to protect and says he couldn't help himself because he liked her perfume so much? WTF DAREDEVIL?? That's not okay! So then the whole time I was expecting that to come back and bite him but it never did.

Apparently this is kind of a reboot with a more fun, fancy-free Matt Murdock b/c in the past he's been pretty angsty? The afterword said Mark Waid wanted him to be funny, but not Spider-Man funny. Funny he should say that because probably my favorite part of this whole thing was his teamup with Spider-Man and Black Cat. (His "teamup" with Black Cat, wink.) YO, I need to read more Spider-Man books, was basically my takehome message from this book.

Cute I guess?? I guess as much as I'm excited about ~diversity in comics~ I'm less invested in 13-year-old Spider-Man? It... pushes my ability to suspend disbelief. Also, I get that Spider-Man has a reputation for cracking wise, but it's kind of awkward that Miles is trying to make jokes but not super great at it? I guess that's what they're going for but it's not my fave.

Also I know it's convention to just collect 6 or 12 comics or w/e but honestly I hate it when a trade ends on a cliffhanger. JUST WAIT. JUST WAIT AND COLLECT THE WHOLE STORY, COMICS INDUSTRY. THAT'S WHY I DON'T READ SINGLE ISSUE COMICS IN THE FIRST PLACE. GRAHHHH

Oh my god, this is the first She-Hulk comic I've ever read and I LOVED it. It was super fun and yet also a cool exploration of identity politics and the legal ramifications of superpowers, aka everything I want from comics. A superpowered law firm!! I want a TV show about that!! Like Ally McBeal but with She-Hulk and the Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway law firm. (Especially Awesome Andy. Awesome Andy on TV would be very GIFable.)

Really I rate Gambit & his cats 5 stars and everything else 3 stars.

One day I hope Marvel will meet the demand for a comic that strictly follows the adventures of Gambit and his cats. Until then, there's this I guess.

I know a lot of my comics reader fans are very anti-Rick Remender, but I think this is the first book of his I'd actually read? Kind of a cool concept but overall ehhhhhh

fucking delightful OBVIOUSLY.

I think I admire the project of this more than I actually enjoyed reading it? It's a cool reboot of the maybe-first Asian American superhero, and knowing all the backstory and the way Yang reintepreted details from the 40s comics is really cool. The coming of age stuff was fun, and it's a pretty satisfying superhero story, but overall I think this will have the most appeal to adults or older/nerdier teens who can appreciate the backstory here.

This was a collection of good stories and a couple great ones. I loved "Up The Mountain Coming Down Slowly" and "Your Mother and I" the best.

Read as single issues. I love ittt I love Natasha getting shit done, and the look at SHIELD and the Avengers and how they're willing and unwilling to use Natasha. Most importantly: I LOVE NATASHA AND X-23 TCB

[praise hands emoji]

(Read as single issues)

Super fun! I can't help but compare it to Dan Slott's She-Hulk run which I read last year and LOVED... but this was good too. She's a really fun character and I definitely like where this is going!