Matthew Pustz

This scholarly work describing the culture of comic book fans is full of interesting nuggets of information but is written rather dryly. In my opinion, the author tends to ramble a little, making the book less than ideally structured and occasionally repetitive. There were also a number of typos or grammatical errors that took away from the pleasure of reading it. The book’s historical analysis is informative but in terms of current (or 10 years ago current) information, most of this is show more self-evident if you are at all immersed in comic book culture yourself. Overall, the book has some usefulness for those interested in learning more about comics fan, but it really could have benefited from better editing. show less

Pretty interesting. Reading this in library school helped reawaken my long-dormant interest in comics.