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Oh, The Boys. I feel like I say that every time.
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The Boys, Volume 2: Get Some The Boys #2
The Silver Chair Chronicles of Narnia #4
The Silver Chair takes place a year and a lifetime after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In our world, Eustace (no N apparently) has grown up slightly and is now attending a–gasp–hyper secular school1. He’s still for the most part the better character he grew to be on his voyages and it’s nice to see someone we’ve seen before. But in Narnia, his friend King Caspian is old, with a son of his own, missing for years in his own right. And of course Eustace screws up his first–and perhaps last–meeting with an old friend.
Along for the ride is the first new female character we’ve seen in a while: Jill. She goes to school with Eustance and the both of them are outcasts, being bullied. I like her. One problem we’ve always had with Narnia is that women/girls are either perfect (like Susan and Lucy) or evil (like the White Witch). Jill is a pretty decent yet still nicely conflicted woman. I love this.
The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game The Boys #1
I recently watched [The Boys](https://www.amazon.com/The-Boys- Season-1/dp/B07QNJCXZK) on Amazon. It takes the basic idea that if you give a number of average people supernatural powers, a good number of them are going to call all sorts of wrong–even the good guys. So if the good guys are bad, who watches them?
And–before it was a TV show, it was a graphical novel! One absolutely chock full of the same schocking language ( Butcher to his dog: fuck 'em ), violence (slightly less), and sexual content (much earlier) as the show.
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion
And so it ends… (for now?)
A crazy series and another crazy story. Or I guess multiple stories all tied together. It’s got a neat enough premise:
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas The Umbrella Academy #2
Onwards and weirdwards!
When we last saw the Umbrella Academy, we were just getting to know all of the siblings for better or for worse and following them through saving the word one time.
Edgedancer Arcanum Unbounded #9 The Cosmere * The Stormlight Archive #2.5
Edgedancer is a short story set in Sanderson’s Cosmere, specifically on Roshar of the Stormlight Archive. It features Lift, a young girl who was first featured in one of the interludes of Words of Radiance interludes and now has a story all to her own.
In short, Lift is a lot of fun. She’s a surgebinder who can make herself ‘awesome’–her term for it–and basically ignore friction. She seems an overall good person with a somewhat odd sense of morals and has a way of talking and acting that will just leave you smiling.
The Fated Sky Lady Astronaut #2
The Fated Sky takes what The Calculating Stars started and takes us on a journey to MARS!
On one level, there is an absolutely wonderful feel to the technology in this book. It really does feel to me like a slightly alternate history 1950s/60s, flying a trio of spacecraft to the red planet. It actually comes to the point of making me think: if this feels this real now, then why in the world haven’t we been to Mars yet. Bring on the meteor! (Not really. That would kill an awful lot of people.) You can really feel just how much research went into this book.
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite The Umbrella Academy #1
Well that is truely a bizarre read. I’ve been wanting to watch the show, but figured the written form is short enough, I could read it first. It’s weirdly wonderful.
In a nutshell, some random event makes women all over the earth give birth at once. 7 of the babies (that we know of!) survive and are adopted by the same man. Of course they all have super powers, so off they go to solve crimes!
Fables, Vol. 22: Farewell Fables #22 Fables Universe #42
And so it ends. It’s been an awfully long strange trip, that probably overstayed it’s welcome just a bit. But on the whole it’s been quite the story and I’m glad to have read it.
It’s kind of neat having a page or two with the ’last story’ of many different fables. We get to see some like Boy Blue again, which I appreciate. Even if/especially if he (more or less) stayed dead.