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I had my procedure at it was less bad than I thought it would be. Now I have to wait a while and see if it actually helps.

The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens—I'm got about halfway through this graphic novel The art is gorgeous, but I've gone from feeling mildly indifferent about all the characters to actively disliking most of them so I decided to stop reading it

Meet Me on Mercer Street by Booki Vivat—This is somewhere between an illustrated novel and a comic. I was a little sceptical at first because its about gentrification and neighborhood change and I have lot of options about those things, but it was handled beautifully, absolutely perfectly! The drawings are also incredibly charming!

Oddity Woods by Kay Davault—I decided to check this out because I loved the author’s other graphic novel Misfit Mansion. This has a similar vibe, with kid investigators in a spooky wood and strange inn, with very cute art. It was charming. My only complaint is that this is volume 1 and while it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger it does end with a lot of unresolved plot! And volume 2 isn’t supposed to be out until next year!

Robin & Batman by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen—This has kind of a similar set up to Batman & Robin: Year One which I read a couple of months ago in that it's about Bruce and Dick’s early relationship, but this one felt a lot bleaker. It’s also a little rushed in places. The watercolor art however is gorgeous!

Gotham Knights 12-32 Devin Grayson,et al— these aren’t quite as good as the first 11 issues, but still good. It doesn’t help that Bruce is isolating himself from everyone even more than usual in the run up to Bruce Wayne Murderer? Which makes it harder to do Batfam focused stories. Also there's some really blatant racism. But still so many great character moments.

I also reread all the Bruce Wayne Murderer/Fugitive? Issues (but didn’t reread any of the rest of the event) Some really great character moments there too!

So that’s all of Devin Grayson's run! I’ll probably read more (thought I’ve heard the rest is spotty) and also check out more of Grayson’s other writing

(I ended up posting a bunch of panels form this over on Tumblr. Tumblr has kinda become the place I yell about comics.)