Reviews: emptying the 2024 truck

I've been a bit quiet on the internet lately; most of my "ambient sociality" quotient these days is going toward a couple of discords I'm in. I'm working on some projects, I'm hanging out with folks in person, and I'm doing a lot of running and reading and playing games, and then there's work. And then there's the constant drain on our sanity and energy from all the fucking fascists running roughshod over the place!!

Well, anyway: I still review books and games and stuff, and I've got the whole remaining balance of what I read/played in 2024 sitting in the hopper (with the exception of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education at the end of December, which I'll review as a trilogy later). Let's dump the whole thing at once! Looks like this batch is mostly comics.

( Delicious in Dungeon, Silver Spoon, Neon White, 1000x Resist, the revenge of the webcomic backlog, and more )

2024 book census

Ah right, since I've got all the reviews (but one) posted, may as well do the wrap-up:

• 9 fiction:
  • 2 by men
  • 7 by women
  • 2 re-reads, 7 new
• 16 comics:
  • 8 by men
  • 7 by women
  • 1 by non-binaries
• 5 video games with significant narratives

Not exactly a red-letter reading year! But, some slightly interesting trends:

• Significantly more comics than in the prior five years.
• Prose fiction is down from 2023, but oddly, the amount of novels I read for the first time is stable (and up from prior years).