Every Day Is Like Wednesday

I recently saw an ad for this series in the back of another Viz book, which referred to the protagonists as "sports-crossed lovers", and that was enough of a hook to grab me.

As I mentioned at the end of my last post, about Marvel's new trade collection of Punisher: Confederacy of Dunces, there were a few other aspects I thought were of some interest that I just couldn't quite fit comfortably there.

I didn't realize that Marvel was going to be publishing a new collection of "Confederacy of Dunces", the story arc that ran through the last five issues of Garth Ennis' 2001-2004 The Punisher ongoing series, until I saw it waiting to be shelved at the lib…

While I read a lot of Batman comics in the '90s, I sat out Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel's Nightwing ongoing series.

This week's bookshelf—my last bookshelf!

G.I.

Why am I writing about this particular comic this particular week?

This week's shelf—the second-to-last shelf!

A few months ago my nephew, who was then 13 going on 14, sent me a text asking if I could get him some Batman comics from the library where I worked, and he provided a list: Year One, Arkham Asylum, The Long Halloween, Hush, Dark Nights: Metal and Dark Ni…

BORROWED: Crescent Moon Marching Vol. 1 (Scholastic/Graphix) I was intrigued by this manga when I first heard about it, mainly because my friend who also reads manga used to be in her high school marching band, and thus a manga about high school marching…

I've been reading so many realistic manga of late, particularly ones about highschoolers with crushes on one another, that it was a little weird and a little refreshing to pick up a manga full of some of the things I used to associate with Japanese comics.

They say opposites attract, and that would certainly seem to be the case with Suzuki and Tani who, despite being classmates, could not be more different from one another.

This week's bookshelf is another mostly manga one, thanks in large part to the size of the shelf, and how easily the standard tankobon-style manga volume slip into it.

Viz Media released the first book in this three-volume series way back in 2006.

G.I.

The end is in sight.

Seven Seas Entertainment debuted the first collected volume of manga-ka Oshioshio's My Deer Friend Nokotan in 2020.

How many posts do you think it takes to qualify as a series?

Just to the right of the last set of bookshelves we discussed is a stack of books that I probably would have put on one of its shelves, if only there was room to do so.

Regardless of the quality of this summer's new Masters of the Universe movie, it definitely ushered in a flood of related merchandise.

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This week's bookshelf is an awful lot like last week's, in that it is a) mostly small press and b) a real mess, with no real logic as to what is on it.

BOUGHT: Now That We Draw Vol. 5 (Seven Seas Entertainment) The previous volume ended with a pretty big cliffhanger, with high schooler and aspiring manga artist Uehara Yuu overhearing the other two points of the series' emerging love triangle discussing h…

•There's been a lot of talk about superhero fatigue, and that Marvel Cinematic Universe having become less and less of a selling point in and of itself (and I agree the cross-movie mega-story has been completely unmoored and ponderous compared to the early

G.I.

This week's bookshelf is a real hodgepodge, with, as far as I can now discern, no real orgainizing principle.

Ever since I finished reading the last volume of Haikyu!!

"Hmm, is the world ready for a dreamy Orion....?"

This week's bookshelf is a manga shelf, and it's dominated by two creators, one of whom is among the most influential Japanese artists to ever put pen to paper.

It's time once again to revisit Larry Hama and company's original 1982-1994 Marvel Comics series, G.I.

Homer's epic poem The Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and a cornerstone of world literature and Western culture, directly inspiring such modern works as James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, 1995's episode five of Wishbone, The Coen…

This week's bookshelf is my original First Second shelf, and, indeed, most of the books here are from the publisher.

When I first decided that I would review my way through the original 1982-1994 G.I.