Casey Gilly

Omg- oh my goth! This was such a precious (but dark!) read. The illustrations made the book for me, I would love to have some of those framed on the wall of a nursery or give as a baby shower gift. The advice was solid as well, and humanized all the diverse aspects of parenting. I laughed and I picked up some food for thought, the perfect combination. Even if you're not goth you'll see a piece of yourself in this book.

And for those of us who aren't yet parents to humans, they do call out show more that cats are siblings too!

Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the ARC. show less

I rather liked this. It is sort of a What If version of Buffy set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future, where the sun went out and Vampires roam freely during the day. There was a fight between humans and vampires and the vampires won, and Buffy has spent the last 30 years trying not to be a Slayer. But when the child of some of her dearest friends turns up on her doorstep, she'll need to pick up the stake one more time to help protect the kid.

This comic managed to get the tone of Buffy show more right, and had enough interesting ideas to keep me interested. It also has a good emotional arc. The art overall tasteful and impactful.

This could work as a sort of unofficial sequel to the show.

If you liked the movie Logan, you'll probably dig this. show less

Fifteen years after the events of Sleepy Hollow (1999 film), Ichabod Crane returns to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a string of suspicious deaths.

As a sequel to Tim Burton's film, this comic is a failure: Ichabod has forgotten all the lessons he learned and Katrina has somehow acquired a twenty-first century mindset. Although I think the book might have been okay as an original story, trying to tie it to the movie makes it seem like a pathetic attempt to ride the coattails of a popular show more work.

I'm also unimpressed by the art. The forest is appropriately creepy, but the people have a bizarre, almost batrachian look to them. The dull colors do not help the book at all.

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This was a cute and simple adult picture book. Maybe a bit TOO short and sweet—I think there was a lot more bandwidth for information (and jokes) that went unused, and reading the book was the work of mere minutes. However, the drawings were a lot of fun—if anything made it worth it, they did. I could see each one being hung on a wall in someone's goth nursery.