A comic book trade paperback with a cover illustration of the Witcher with his head in near center of the image, right arm forward and reaching towards the ground. There is a bright glow from the ground, as if he is kneeling on one knee above a fire. His left arm is stretched back behind him and is holding a long sword, ready to swing. He has another long sword strapped to his back. Leaping towards him from the top left of the image is a wolf-like creature, and another one is silhouetted in the lower right, snarling at him.

The Witcher: The Bear & the Butterfly
W: Simon Spurrier
A: Simon Green
Collects the complete miniseries.

Geralt encounters monsters and people that aren't what they seem, and solves a mystery. As always, Villarrubia's colors greatly enhance the art.

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#thewitcher
#comicbook
#booksky
#geralt

Kilroy is Here
W: Joe Pruitt
A: Dalibor Talajic

A one-shot rebirth of a indie series from the 1990s. Angels, history, acts of violence, and questions about the soul. Should have been more popular, so it's enjoyable to encounter Kilroy again.

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#comicbook
#booksky
#supernatural

Hardcover comic book collection with a cover illustration of Kevin Smith in his trademark backwards-worn baseball cap and a bulky dark blue blazer with three comic book-related pins on the left lapel. He is holding up a copy of the Quick Stops comic book in his right hand and pointing at it with his left hand. On the cover of that book, a man and a woman are hugging. A series of word balloons on the right side of the illustration have Smith introducing himself and the book. In the lower left foreground are three more comic books splayed out over each other. The one in front shows a man in contemporary clothing and angel wings, over the heads of characters Jay and Silent Bob.

Credits page of the book.

Quick Stops, Vol. 3
By Kevin Smith
See photos for complete credits.

A hardcover collection of comix featuring four short slice-of-weird-life stories from our favorite chronicler of grubby suburban existence. Nicely illustrated by all the artists.

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#comicbooks
#kevinsmith
#booksky

You sure that isn't a close-up of tRump's sphincter?

This has been an excellent series. Looking forward to the next installment.

Just by writing a post with correct grammar spelling, you have proven you are less inept than anyone in the tRump administration.

What's that, like 2 minutes of Amazon profits?

I feel that.

A hardcover book with a photo-illustration of a dark figure wearing a white veil, with a gnarled hand in the foreground holding something that is streaming smoke that further obscured the details.

My Soul to Keep
By Tananarive Due

An investigative journalist discovers her husband is a member of a sect of immortals who will kill to protect their secret. A captivating mix of love, family, religious faith, intrigue and personal journeys of self discovery.

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#fantasy
#magicrealism
#booksky

I finally realized why this seemed so familiar. It's the same basic idea from Poul Anderson's "The High Crusade."

Lone Star Rising
By Elmer Kelton

The Texas Rangers Trilogy, collecting the first 3 books of a series: The Buckskin Line, Badger Boy, and The Way of the Coyote. "Rusty" Shannon's life in the early days of the Texas Rangers, when life on the frontier was, at best, chaotic.

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#western
#booksky

Still haven't finished mine.

Well that got my dog's attention.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

She said tRump's tax cuts saved her $11,000 last year. I wonder what a multimillionaire is doing working for DoorDash. 🤣😂

Just a couple nights ago I watched "Love & Bullets," a 1970s Charles Bronson movie, in which Rod Steiger plays a Mafia don with a stutter. He made every role believable.

#policeprocedural
#detectives
#mystery
#booksky

A hardcover graphic novel, with an illustration of a man in partial silhouette, his face obscured. He is wearing a suit jacket and tie, and holding a flashlight in his right hand, pointed at the viewer. He has a police badge on his belt at his waist. Behind him to his right can be seen a group of men with flashlights, gathered around an outline in white on the ground. To his left is a police car, a uniformed officer, and another person. To both sides loom large buildings.

A hardcover graphic novel, with an illustration of a man, seen from the back, shown from his waist up. He is wearing a white shirt, has his hands on his hips, and is looking at an assortment of crime scene photos and maps stuck to the wall.

Homicide: The Graphic Novel Part 1 & 2
By David Simon
Adapted by Philippe Squarzoni

A very nicely done sequential art adaptation of the best nonfiction police procedural book I've ever read. The subject matter continues to fascinate even decades after the original was written.

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#graphicnovel

I only hope Americans can do the same.

Trade paperback comic strip collection, with a cover illustration that is a parody of a Star Wars movie poster, with a female figure sitting on the ground in the foreground, with a bald man standing right behind her, a lightsword held in both hands above him. In the background a male figure scratches his head and a female who is holding a cellphone in her left hand and poking at its screen with one finger of her right hand. In the far background are a couple of buildings and the silhouettes of pine trees, and a very starry sky.

Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens: The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug 2012–2015
By Ruben Bolling

It's amazing how many of these cartoons are still relevant to our current political situation. Future historians need to study cartoon collections to understand what really happened.

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#political
#cartoons

A comic book hardcover collection with a cover illustration of Captain Marvel, shown from about the waist up, her long blonde hair streaming up from and around her head.

The Life of Captain Marvel
By Margaret Stohl
See photos for complete credits.

Collects issues #1–5 of the 2019 series. Carol Danvers goes home and learns some surprising things about her mother. Family & interpersonal relationships plus a scary alien assassin. Fun.

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#captainmarvel
#comicbook

No one really wants to live in a neighborhood with Dale Partridge.

A digest-size magazine with an illustration of a space station in a cross shape, with solar power panels extended perpendicularly, and a cone-shaped spacecraft attached point first to the end of the closest arm of the station. In the background floats the planet Mars.

Analog, June 22, 1981

Found an old issue I hadn't read. The cover article may have been a bit overoptimistic. The fiction, as always, was excellent, as were the illustrations.
(See photos for contents.)

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#analog
#sciencefiction
#sciencefact
#magazine
#booksky
#periodical
#1980s

Front of a hardcover book with a band dustjacket (dustjacket does not reach the top or bottom of the book, leaving about two inches above and below). The dustjacket is covered with a cartoon drawing, in color, of a crowd of people, many of them recognizable celebrities, with a bus, a cityscape, and smokestacks streaming dark smoke in the background.

Back of a hardcover book with a band dustjacket (dustjacket does not reach the top or bottom of the book, leaving about two inches above and below). The dustjacket is covered with a cartoon drawing, in color, of a crowd of people, many of them recognizable celebrities, with a cityscape, a pyramid, and a nuclear explosion mushroom in the background.

The Realist: Cartoons

A massive collection of the best cartoons from the legendary "underground" satirical publication, featuring work from many prominent artists, with an introduction by editor Paul Krassner.

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#realist
#humor
#cartoons
#undeground
#booksky
#satire

Spitting image.

I guess we're labeling Baroque paintings as "Adult Content" now.

Garbage scow.

8

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.”

“Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”