Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito Review

Cats - the final frontier.

At least it feels like it’s inevitable that if you’re a comics creator then you’re going to make a cat comic at some point in your career - even horror mangaka Junji Ito’s made one!

Batman, Volume 4: Dark Prisons Review (Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez)

Batman’s in prison because… And Zur is in Failsafe and he’s Batman because… Then Absolute Poo-er means more robots and Batman’s gotta… Yeah, so Batman the series is in shit shape. Chip Zdarsky’s run has been about as bad, if not worse, than Tynion’s, and DC needs to change things sharpish.

The Anechoic Chamber and Other Weird Tales by Will Wiles Review

Of the nine stories in Will Wiles’ short story collection, The Anechoic Chamber and Other Weird Tales, about two were ok and the others were generally quite bad.

The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker Review

I’ve known of Dorothy Parker for a while now - she was this fabled female American Oscar Wilde wit, writing for the New Yorker and part of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of artists from the 1920s - but never read her until now. And maybe her wit comes across more strongly in her non-fiction because I didn’t see anything funny or clever in her fiction, three stories of which are collected in this small book.