Before February ends I wanted to review a collection I’ve been meaning to read for years: N. K. Jemisin’s How Long ’til Black Future Month? I love a good short story collection, and I’ve loved every Jemisin work I’ve read (her Far Sector Green Lantern series from DC was amazing) so I had high hopes
But ever since New York became the newest and loudest member of an international resistance against the encroachment of hostile quantum possibility collapse, we been dealing with more than the usual day-to-day fuckshit. New York’s battle against the Enemy trying to kill living cities ended in an uncomfortable stalemate in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We
“Hello, Green Lantern Sojourner Mullein. I’m Minec of the Sea, by the Streaking Ice, Until the Sun Falls.Care to get off my ship before I have you shot?” It’s the final issue! Keep reading for a review of Far Sector #12. Minor spoilers below. The issue starts out explosively, right in the middle of the
“I take it back. Not playing Uno with you, ever. You’d hit me with a stack of Draw Fours, and then I’d have to kill you.” Keep reading for a review of Far Sector #11. Minor spoilers below for this issue. Great big spoilers for previous issues. Man alive. This series. This issue. I seriously
Two of my favorite series had new issues released today, and one of them just had a new issue last week too! (I’m so spoiled, I’m going to start expecting this kind of content every week, I want all the beautiful artwork ALL OF IT.) First up, keep reading for a review of Far Sector
It’s been a pretty chaotic year, what with family medical emergencies and other craziness (said other craziness being…more family medical emergencies), so I’m pretty happy to see the last of 2019. I don’t usually quote myself in these reviews, but for crying out loud, that comment from the end of 2019 is just too ironic
“It’s fine.Everything’s fine.Everything is fine.” Keep reading for a review of N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s Far Sector #9. Warning, small spoilers for the previous issues. A lot of this issue was a chance to take a breath and go over everything we’ve learned so far. Emotions are, basically, illegal in the City Enduring, due
If you do not learn the things I have to teach you. If you do not help. The time will come and you will fail, and this city will join Pompeii and Atlantis and a dozen others whose names no one remembers, even though hundreds of thousands of people died with them. N.K. Jemisin’s short
Yeah. Um. So…There’s a thing my people can do. A bad thing. Really bad. Keep reading for a review of Far Sector #7. Warning: very small spoilers below, but I do mention a few things in a sideways kind of way, so if you don’t want to accidentally read between the lines and get spoiled,