May 11 2026
I almost feel bad reading this after the copious amounts of sashimi I had as part of my Mother’s Day dinner last night (but only almost, lol.) Sashimi is a fish boy who swims out of Barnacle Bay one night looking for refuge… and answers. He figures that infiltrating the local middle school will help: …
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May 07 2026
It’s so rare to find a memoirist whose art is as engaging as her prose, but Yevgenia Nayberg truly is phenomenal in both fields. You can very much tell that she’s a trained artist, even before she goes into the details of her academic beginnings in this arresting memoir of growing up in Kyiv in …
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Apr 29 2026
subtitled A Comic Book Cocktail Book. This is, bar none, one of the best illustrated reference guides to learning about and making cocktails for beginners that I’ve ever seen. Sarah Becan’s approach to mixology is as refreshing as some of the drinks she features in this volume, and I say that both as someone who …
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Apr 27 2026
with the subtitle A Graphic Exploration Of How To (Maybe) Avoid Extinction. And while this book is aimed at teens, I think that anyone with an interest in science and the many different ways in which the world could end will gain a lot from this well-researched and innovatively drawn volume. Never has the end …
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Apr 23 2026
Is it weird that I read this book and immediately assumed that the protagonist must have grown up with a super critical parent or guardian who absolutely failed him in preparing him for an autonomous life? Lol, the irony there, ofc, being me asking if that’s weird, given the title of this book. And I …
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Apr 20 2026
with beautiful colors by Steve Hamaker. I’m ngl, I want to incorporate that Magic Mistletoe spell into my next character sheet, somehow, some way, lol. I super loved the first Table Titans Club graphic novel but also have a terrible memory, so will freely admit that I spent a good portion of this novel feeling …
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Apr 09 2026
For whatever reason, I had this book’s publication date misfiled, but oh what a perfect time to read it, as the Artemis II mission reminds millions of people worldwide why so many of us initially fell in love with the idea of outer space. And space is, obviously, the setting for Ami Moon And The …
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Apr 01 2026
subtitled: A Graphic Novel Of The Armenian Genocide. The older I get, the more I wonder why people who commit genocide are so hellbent on pretending it never happened. It adds a layer of weaseldom to an already terrible thing. Like, it’s bad enough you’re a mass murderer but when confronted with the evidence, you’ll …
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Mar 30 2026
This fifth installment of the PAWS graphic novel series for Middle Grade readers is too cute! Jumping into a series on its fifth installment can always feel a little disorienting, so I do recommend reading the earlier books in the series first to get a better understanding of who some of these unintroduced characters are. …
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Mar 23 2026
with colors by Jessie Zheng. So every once in a while, I wade through the cesspool formerly known as Twitter (bear with me, I swear this is going somewhere relevant) to peek at sports banter and celebrity gossip. Occasionally, posts on other topics will cross my feed, usually the fascist-coded, algorithm-pushed bullshit that reminds me …
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