Below are posts associated with the “violence” tag.
📚 bookblog: Invincible, Compendium One (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)
I have some mixed feelings about Invincible, though they obviously are positive enough for me to start a full series reread. In college, I used to own a hardcover collection regrouping the first several TPBs, but I gave it away when moving to grad school. I was bothered by the violence and gore then, and now I can add to that the casual homophobia and ableism of the early 2000s and the low-level objectification and misogyny that are in most superhero comics. There’s some not to like in this series.
📚 bookblog: The Hunger and the Dusk, Volume 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)
I picked this up (along with Arca, some titles I’ll be reading and reviewing in the future, and a few that I’m going to skip because they are Not My Thing) in a Humble Bundle for recent IDW titles. I’ve read Wilson’s run on Ms. Marvel (or at least most of it), but I’ve bounced off some of her other stuff, so I wasn’t sure what I’d think of this.
📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for The Great War: American Front, by Harry Turtledove
I’ve been feeling like reading some Turtledove recently, but I’m a lot more mixed on him than I’ve been in the past. I read nearly this entire series back in high school and thought it might be worth revisiting.
The premise of this book (World War I in a timeline where the Confederacy successfully seceded) is super interesting. Woodrow Wilson as Confederate POTUS feels plausible, as do a lot of the other details, and it’s interesting to see how the story plays out.
🔗 linkblog: Why does Nephi keep the sword? | By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog'
Interesting Book of Mormon reading here.