barrybj's reviews
68 reviews

Superman Vs. Meshi Vol. 2 by Satoshi Miyagawa

funny lighthearted relaxing

4.0

i think superman and batman are dating in this comic like its impossible to ignore. Also these books make me so so hungry

Box of Light by Seiko Erisawa

dark funny hopeful reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.75

Watchmen by Alan Moore

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

five stars not because its perfect but because....i dont know man, because its watchmen.

Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 1 by Kamome Shirahama

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

4.5

Hell and Damnation: A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment by Marq de Villers

informative slow-paced

2.75

well researched and often interesting, but held back by an authors voice that can often slide into snide and irritating rather than clever and irreverent. The middle part on torture slogged on and the epilogue felt like getting lectured to by a 15 year old and seemed unable to really comprehend how faith develops and why people need it, instead simply trying to disprove it in a way that felt less academic and more like petty jabs at anyone with a religious belief system. While this along with some faulty pacing and strange choices in translations for ancient texts (using a highly anachronistic 1920s translation of enkidus final speech to gilgamesh threw me off so hard i had to put the book down for a bit) holds the book back from being anywhere near a favorite, it is a thourough and often fascinating text that is worth using if you're doing research or just find the subject of hellish torture interesting.

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

its 5 AM right now and i just blazed through the entire second half of Stone Butch Blues in one sitting. I....dont know how to describe how I feel. I just feel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Rape, Vomit, Suicide, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Outing, Antisemitism, Alcoholism, Addiction, Abandonment, and Alcohol

The Mysteries by John Kascht, Bill Watterson

dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

kind of want to read this in a more mysterious setting. My couch in my apartment with all the lights on didnt quite fit the mood. still a gorgeous and haunting little folktale about how we'll never know everything, even if we think we do. 

Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson - Volume 1 by

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

Wonder Girl: Homecoming by Joëlle Jones

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.75

feels like a great comic story put on fast forward. justice for yara

FROM HELL: The Master Edition by Alan Moore

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

staring blankly at the section asking me about content warnings. all of them i guess?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Mental illness, Child death, Child abuse, Addiction, Sexual content, Misogyny, Violence, Suicide, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Death, Cursing, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Gore, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit and Antisemitism

Minor: Incest and Abortion