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Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past couple weeks. You don’t see Chinese comics much, so I got this book by Yi Yang… And I have to say that I quite like the line — it’s kinda scratchy in an 80s US indie way (but then also very Japanese-like at the same time). And I can see what they’re going for here, with all the chaos and stuff in the storytelling, but I just found reading it to be exhausting. So I ditched it after reading about a third of the book. I’ve been buying these DC Finest books over the last year and quite enjoying them — but also thinking, halfway through, “ok, that’s enough of that”. 600 pages of 50s/60s/70s DC can be a lot. But this one — I just really liked it all the way through. Of course, much of that is because of intense nostalgia: I originally read many of these stories when I was like… eight? Ten? And because one didn’t have all that many comics as a child, I re-read these books over and over. But then I haven’t read them at all again since I was, like,…

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