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Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Taki Soma

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challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I love the addition of the trans women, it feels like I found myself in a comic. Definitely going to come back to this.
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola, Mike Mignola, Richard Pace

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dark medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed this one. The art is crazy cool and I’d recommend it to anyone. Just some fun eldritch horror with a 1920s Batman.
Bitch Planet, Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick

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adventurous dark reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’ve been looking for something like this, a comic based in leftist politics and isn’t afraid to be blatant about that.
Batman: The Court of Owls Saga: DC Compact Comics Edition by Scott Snyder

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I liked it a lot, way better than All-Star Superman, the last DC Comix I read. The art is beautiful, gothic, and gloomy. The plot feels important, even as a first read. And the character interactions seem believable, maybe a little bit on the cartoonish side. It was fun.
All-Star Superman: DC Compact Comics Edition by Grant Morrison

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dark lighthearted sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

It was okay, I don’t like Frank Quitely’s art. I do like seeing a guy who isn’t supposed to be able to die, deal with death.
Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar

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adventurous reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I liked it but I wish the politics were more nuanced, like when Luther took over he was literally practicing a form of state capitalism with a centralized economy, I don’t think anarchist Batman would be down with that. Either the writer doesn’t like anarchists or doesn’t understand them, either way it was strange that an anarchist fighting against hierarchy would work FOR the United States and Luther.
Nemo: Heart of Ice by Alan Moore

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

The art is beautiful but it didn’t feel very rewarding and I don’t feel compelled to look for the next in the series. I am, however, interested in checking out the earlier books in the series as I’ve heard they’re better than this one :)
The Sandman Book One by Neil Gaiman

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dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Unbelievably beautiful. I can’t recommend enough.
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I wish this was better, there was so much opportunity for criticism of the U.S.’s actions in the Middle East which quite literally caused this story to happen but any criticism seems, in my opinion, neutralized by the acknowledgements where it thanks the soldiers who “protect” the United States by going to fight in the Middle East. Who were they protecting?
Hawkeye: Omnibus by David Aja, Steve Lieber, Francesco Francavilla, Matt Fraction, Annie Wu, Javier Pulido, Alan Davis, Jesse Hamm

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challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Everything in this is so fucking good. Especially once Barton goes dead, the comic gets so interesting because I’m not aware of any comic that does that well, though it would be cooler if Barton hadn’t gotten a hearing aid at the end.