#63 Phantom Hearts by Rosie Talbot & Sarah Maxwell Heartstopper meets The Sixth Sense. It was okay, if kind of obvious. The line artwork was nice - it reminded me of classic romance comic art. I felt that there was a strong John Romita Sr influence. Unfortunately, it was badly let down by the...

#64 Woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social This is my book of the year so far and it's going to take a lot to topple it. A beautiful, moving, funny and heartfelt story about an 'older' trans woman's first steps in finding out who she is. And, I really identified with Erica.

#65 #DoctorWho - The Day Of The Doctor by Steven Moffat A fun retelling of the story with Moffat showing off again and being very clever-clever. The story is told from multiple POVs and, while it is in the same order as the episode, the chapters are out of order. #BookSky #2025Reads

#66 The Alchemist's Dream by @comrademorden.bsky.social This is a book review/recommendation for a book you can't get. My copy is a very limited edition, hand-bound by the author copy and never got published for some bizarre reason. And that's a shame, because it's fantastic.

Break before the next issue. Saga took five years off. This is a bleak volume with so much death and disaster. It's also absolutely fantastic. The story just keeps getting better and the artwork is astounding. It's funny and terrifying and sexy and gruesome. It's pretty much the perfect book.

#68 Secret Identity by @alexsegura.bsky.social This was a really fun book. Set in the grimy Pre-DC Implosion days of comic book publishing, it's a dark, dirty book that captures everything that's horrendous and everything that's wonderful about comics and 1970s New York.

It takes a little while to get going but once it did, it really shot into high gear. Segura's knowledge of that period of publishing appears to be pretty much perfect and all the little nods to real people in the industry makes it all seem so much clearer, along with the nods to current creators

I'm sure that naming one of the editors at 'Triumph Comics' (the company for which, Carmen - the protagonist - works) 'Hahn' and Segura's co-creator on The Dusk was a complete coincidence. (I had to double check who the 'Louise' who worked at Warren was, but it was

Just to make certain I was right. There aren't many Louise's in the industry and really only one who could be referenced with just her first name). This is the first prose novel that I've read by Alex Segura but I've read a reasonable chunk of his comics work and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm very happy to say that I enjoyed this as well. Unfortunately, the sequel 'Alter Ego' is not available in the UK except through Amazon so I'm going to have to ignore my principles in order to get it. The things we do for literature.

#69 The Legendary Lynx by @alexsegura.bsky.social & Sandy Jarrell. Part of me wants to write this review as if it's a real book from 1975. But I won't. This is a fun book. Fleshing out the extracts printed in the novel Secret Identity, this is a 'reprint' of the first four issues of the run

that was written by the protagonist of the novel. Segura does a good job of making it feel like a book from the 1970s while also putting in some modern ideas to appeal to current audiences. I hope that there are further volumes completing the story,

Forgot the alt text. Cover of The Legendary Lynx by Alex Segura and Sandy Jarrell A woman with short dark hair wearing a flared jumpsuit with wide lapels. It is blue grey with a stripe of 'Lynx pattern' down the middle from collar to ankle. She is wearing gloves with claws attached to each finger