Category: Comics

  • Climbing Out

    Climbing Out

    A Xeric Grant winner. Brian Ralph’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, universally adored and wordless graphic novel Cave~In, is the beautiful and allegorical Climbing Out. This melancholy story focuses on a cute monkey who, armed with only science and laughs, sets out on his own adventure to explore the world beyond his cave. Brian creates…

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  • The Prince in the Basement

    The Prince in the Basement

    Do you need any more reason? Aside from the fact that this is an extremely Trans Tale.

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  • The Unsinkable Ship of Fools

    The Unsinkable Ship of Fools

    Fuck Capitalism and then Fuck Each Other The author lives that pure anarchist punk life and fuck, dude, I honestly think that they got it right. All those pretty ideals that psuedo punks, wishful punks, talk about. Those little touches that bring it in and make it vibe. This is full-on an anarchist sex train…

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  • Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, Vol. 1

    Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, Vol. 1

    “I’ve literally never read anything like this ‘genre-defying’ sorta-anthology thing, but it’s f*cking awesome. The writing is strange and deeply unsettling, and the artwork is gorgeous. The new comic I most look forward to reading each month.” –Brian K. Vaughan, Saga Collecting the first twelve issues of the critically acclaimed, best-selling anthology comic ICE CREAM…

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  • Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…

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  • Eldritch Lust #2

    Eldritch Lust #2

    This one was a lot better! We have a bigger variety of stories and art styles, and they seem to have learned from what didn’t go so well last time. The low contrast red is gone, and as if to prove that they could do it better, it featured another story with that red on…

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  • Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

    Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

    Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns , explores queerness in the shockingly frank and funny graphic novel Mimosa . Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the…

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  • Pinky & Pepper Forever

    Pinky & Pepper Forever

    Content Warning: Suicide, Torture, Sexual Themes, Bondage, Cartoon Violence.Not for kids. After Pinky’s lethal performance art piece, her devoted girlfriend Pepper follows her into death, only to find that in Hell, Pinky is… thriving?! Pinky & Pepper Forever is a dark comedy full of furry fun and a little gay Catholic guilt. Follow these two…

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  • New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Aaah… what a stupendous collection, with so many big names in comics! My favorite in this anthology ended up being Written in Stone, by Carla Speed McNeil. I ended up reading it three times back to back, and then once more before I put down the book. (I reread it when I opened the book…

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  • Darlin’

    Darlin’

    This is a short werewolf story and gods, it’s gorgeous. The linework is nice, and the main characters are great. And finding out that there’s a greater story descended from this one??? AUTHOR’S NOTE:This comic functions as a spiritual (rather than canonical/chronological) predecessor to my current long-form comic, DARLIN’ AND HER OTHER NAMES. This original comic is a loose…

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Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 23/100
23%
Comics Read in 2025: 90/100
90%
Physical Owned Books Read: 403/665
60%


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