I've been catalogue comic book characters who are "Doctor ___" and determining which ones of them actually have the right to use that title. You can find the thread on Talking Time at Get out of my operating room, MISTER Fate!

Jupiter’s Legacy (volumes 1 - 4) - Somewhere along the line, the miniseries Jupiter’s Circle got repackaged as the first volume of Jupiter’s Legacy. (I think in the “Netflix Edition”, which this is.) There's a volume 5 that isn’t included in this bundle, but it ends sensibly here with the villains defeated, the original characters' plots resolved, ( Read more... )

Rick and Morty vs Dungeons and Dragons - I’ve never seen an episode of Rick and Morty (apparently it’s about a nerdy kid and his insane mad scientist grandfather), but I very much appreciated the different approaches they took to skewering D&D over the collection, including heavy references to different editions. I don’t have a particular desire to ( Read more... )

Ghostbusters (volumes 1-4) - The classic characters, another few years down the line from the second movie, and periodically referencing the events of the video game. Interestingly, the art style is neither based on the cartoon series (which doesn’t seem to be in continuity) nor on any kind of realism. They introduce a love interest for Janine who ( Read more... )

This collection is mostly European comics originally written in French or other languages, which have been translated and published for American audiences. They pretty much fall into two groupings: Mediocre sci-fi action stories, and excuses to draw naked ladies.

Honestly, the naked-ladies books are lucky to have decent art, because really, that ( Read more... )

Ghost-Spider (volumes 1, 2) The hero formerly known as Spider-Gwen bounces between fighting crime on her home world and attending college in the main Marvel universe. While the pacing is occasionally a little rocky (and some things that seem like they’ll build up to something big are suddenly dropped), these are fun superhero adventures.

Sex ( Read more... )

Alienated - An alien comes to Earth and encounters three human teenagers (coincidentally, all named Sam), who mentally like with it and each other. This goes much darker than you’d think for the opening and the brightly-colorful art. Turns out that teenagers given alien superpowers do terrible things, but it’s all a metaphor for growing up, or ( Read more... )

I’ve been mostly picking through reading graphic novels out of this bundle. There’s a lot more material, some of which I’ve already read and some of which I may eventually get to.

Yo, Miss by Lisa Wilde - A semi-biographical story of a school year at a “second chance” high school from the perspective of a teacher. I don’t love the art, but the story ( Read more... )

Equilibrium is terrible, but not good-terrible. It’s “let’s make it look like the Matrix but without any real concept behind that” terrible.

Jupiter Ascending (which I had seen before) is the product of teenage Lana Wachowski’s id with all the absurdity that produces, but remains delightfully terrible. Also, I hadn’t realized until this viewing how ( Read more... )

Transformers vs. Visionaries - I started in on the Humble Bundle of IDW Transformers books, and this seemed like a good stand-alone title. I kinda wondered if I missed a Visionaries limited-series that might explain why the Spectral Knights are all dressed differently than in the cartoon and how we jumped straight to "Prysmos was destroyed and the ( Read more... )