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Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong by Brian Buccellato art by Christian Duce and Tom Derenick DC Comics 2024 Increasingly, I think that as a reader of comics, I'm more interested in well-done miniseries than in trying to follow an ongoing storyline.

Bathe the Cat by Alice McGinty art by David Roberts Chronicle Books 2022 One of my coworkers has an interest in children's lit, and the other day she basically put Bathe the Cat into my hands and told me to read it.

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong Ten Speed Books 2024 The first volume of The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn collects eight chapters of Tri Vuong's webcomic.

What We are Seeking by Cameron Reed Tor 2026 What We are Seeking is a scifi novel set in a distant future when humans have colonies on a number of other planets, despite being limited to sub-light speed.

Paper Girls 5 by Brian Vaughan art by Cliff Chiang Image Comics 2018 In the fifth volume of Paper Girls, the girls have arrived in the future, to the time where the Old Timers, the older generation in a temporal conflict with their own descendants, are op…

Witch Hat Atelier 13 by Kamome Shirahama Kodansha 2025 In Witch Hat Atelier 13, the annual Silver Eye Festival is still besieged by a monstrous leech that appears like a circulatory system, lowering over the fairgrounds like a cage.

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman Tor 2021 The Blacktongue Thief is an inventive, humorous, and very dark fantasy by Christopher Buehlman.

Seek You A Journey through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke Pantheon 2021 Seek You is graphic nonfiction about loneliness.

The Spire by Simon Spurrier art by Jeff Stokely Boom!

Michael Robartes and the Dancer WB Yeats Cuala Press 1921, reprinted 1998 Michael Robartes and the Dancer" is a collection of poems by WB Yeats.

The Third Reich of Dreams The Nightmares of a Nation by Charlotte Beradt translated by Damion Searls Princeton University Press 1966, reprinted 2025 The Third Reich of Dreams is a work of social science by the German journalist Charlotte Beradt.

Paintings of Portugal by Angela Pan self-published 2024 Paintings of Italy by Angela Pan self-published 2024 Paintings of Portugal and Paintings of Italy are a pair of self-published art books by Canadian artist Angela Pan.

DIE 4 Bleed by Kieron Gillen art by Stephanie Hans Image Comics 2021 From the start, I've found myself drawn to the high-concept worldbuilding of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans' comic series DIE, but (especially after the first volume) I've been less im…

The Anthropologists by Aysegul Savas Bloomsbury 2024 Asya, the narrator of The Anthropologists, isn't literally a social scientist, but she is metaphorically like an anthropologist as she closely observes her friends' lives and her own, trying to discern…

The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale art by LeUyen Pham Candlewick Press 2024 I visited some family recently, which included a chance to see my niece.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 edited by David Eggers Mariner Press 2002 I enjoyed working my way through the Best American Comic series.

In the Half Room by Carson Ellis Candlewick Press 2020 In the Half Room is a children's picture book by Carson Ellis about an odd but still cozy cottage, that seems well-suited for a bedtime story.

The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe Orb 1982, reprinted 1994 The Sword of the Lictor is the third book in Gene Wolfe's quartet, The Book of the New Sun.

The Council of Frogs by Matt Emmons Second at Best Press 2023 The Council of Frogs is a fantasy comic by Matt Emmons.

Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte Peow 2017, reprinted 2023 Stages of Rot is a deeply enigmatic comic that depicts the decomposition of a dead whale, not at the bottom of one of Earth's oceans, but on an alien world where all manner of sea life fly through t…

Shadowlands A Journey through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green WW Norton & Company 2022 In Shadowlands, author Matthew Green takes us to 8 sites around Great Britain where people used to live and now do not.

Tower Dungeon 3 by Tustomu Nihei Kodansha 2025 The previous volume of Tower Dungeon ended on a cliffhanger, with a party of rival adventurers ambushing our heroes.

Fantasy Sports 1 by Sam Bosma Nobrow 2015 Fantasy Sports is a fun little graphic novel by Sam Bosma about a pair of adventurers who must defeat the mummy and win his treasure by ... beating him at basketball?

Mainly in Moonlight Ten Stories of Sorcery and the Supernatural by Nicholas Gray Meredith Press 1965, reprinted 1967 Mainly in Moonlight is a collection of fantasy stories from the 1960s by Nicholas Gray.

Super Late Bloomer My Early Days in Transition An Up and Out Collection by Julia Kaye Andrews McMeel 2018 Super Late Bloomer is a collection of autobiographical comics by Julia Kay, drawn in the 4 panel cartoon style of a daily newspaper comic.

Paper Girls 4 by Brian Vaughan art by Cliff Chiang Image Comics 2018 In volume 4 of Paper Girls, I think we finally start getting some clear information about what's been happening across the previous volumes, thanks to a helpful true believer who tries to

Destined for Greatness Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town by Michael Ramirez photos by Mike White Rutgers University Press 2018 Destined for Greatness is a sociological study of rock musicians in Athens, Georgia.

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo by Drew Weing First Second 2016 The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo is a kids' comic about a boy who moves to the city, discovers it's full of monsters, then learns that monsters aren't as scary as he thought.

Witch Hat Atelier 12 by Kamome Shirahama Kodansha 2024 The previous several volumes of Witch Hat Atelier set up all the pieces of a comprehensive disaster.

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway Knopf 2018 Gnomon is a very literary scifi mystery novel set in a dystopian near-future Britain.