comics
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Cat Fight by Andrew Wheeler and Ilias Kyriazis – REVIEW
Cat Fight is a wondrously fun comic, and this first volume is a colorful wild ride that you shouldn’t miss. Kitty Midnight is the most glamorous gray-haired woman you could imagine. You would never know that she runs the Kit Kat Crime Syndicate, a group of the world’s most skilled and notorious thieves. Her syndicate… Continue reading
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I Feel Awful, Thanks by Lara Pickle
You know when you start reading a book and you know it’s going to be a great read? That feeling when the setting is so comfortable you could sink into it or when the characters feel like old friends you’re catching up with. That’s how reading I Feel Awful Thanks felt for me. I Feel Awful, Thanks is… Continue reading
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Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín
Ed Brubaker is quickly becoming a favorite comic creator of mine. Since December, I’ve devoured his graphic novels Night Fever and Where the Body Was, which were 5-star and 4-star reads for me, respectively. Since then, I’ve been picking up everything I see by Brubaker at my local bookstores. I jumped at the chance to… Continue reading
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Earthdivers, Vol. 2: Ice Age by Stephen Graham Jones
Steven Graham Jones was one of my favorite authors of 2023, and Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus made it onto My Favorite Books of 2023, so I eagerly dove into Volume 2 as soon as possible. Kill Columbus centers on Emily, Tad, Sosh, and Yellow Kid’s attempts to time travel to the 1400s, kill Christopher Columbus, and… Continue reading
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The Sunday Post: Reviewing the Week and Looking Ahead – 2/11/2024
How is it already Sunday again?? This week completely flew by! My husband and I had a bit of an adventure day today and actually made it to three (!!!) different bookstores. Somehow, even with this blog and all the books I hear about, I always find books I’ve never even seen before. Today, my… Continue reading
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The Sunday Post: Reviewing the Week and Looking Ahead – 2/4/2024
Is anyone else feeling slightly overwhelmed by February?? There are so many great new releases coming out this month. I just finished planning out my February reading and blog schedule, which helped me feel a little less strained. Some months just feel like a lot of great books all at once, though. In other news,… Continue reading
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Crusader, Vol. 1 by Matt Emmons
Mad Cave is an indie comic publisher I’ve come to really love. One of my favorite graphic novels from 2023, Monomyth, was published by them. So many interesting works are being published in the indie space, and Mad Cave is doing great work. When I saw that Mad Cave had an upcoming dark sci-fantasy starring… Continue reading
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Graphic Novel Review – Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
I saw the cover of Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem and immediately wanted to read it. I am perpetually obsessed with almost every reimagining of Sherlock Holmes I find. And the fact Watson and Holmes is both noir and has black protagonists? I was so excited going into this. Continue reading
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The Sunday Post: Reviewing the Week and Looking Ahead – 1/28/2024
Welcome back to Back Shelf Books! We finally lost all our snow this week! In its place, though, we got a heck ton of rain. Rain, I can handle. It’s been a much more normal week this week, and normal is perfectly good in my book. News & Fun I’m super excited to now be… Continue reading
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Graphic Novel Review: XINO by Phil Hester, Melissa Flores, Alex Segura, and more
I’m always looking for weird fiction anthologies, so I was thrilled to find this speculative and weird fiction graphic novel anthology. When a book is described as “an intra-ocular lozenge of subversive, surrealist science fiction,” you better believe I’m going to be interested. XINO comes from Oni Press, a publisher I trust, so I had… Continue reading