Bookshelf #4

Finally, we come to the bottom shelf of the first of my bookshelves. 

To the left are various Top Shelf books, all acquired during my time in Mentor (so, about 2011-2024 or so). Though all from the same publisher, there's quite a variety of genres represented. 

First, there's Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, a hardcover I acquired when it was being weeded from the library, and the various Nemo books that spun out of Moore and the late Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentleman  bboks (I also stuck in Moore's Neonomicon with Jacen Burrows in there, which is actually from Avatar, but I guess was thinking it was a Moore book, and thus belonged with the others). There's also George Takei and company's They Called Us Enemy, Paul Tobin and Colleen Hoover's Gingerbread Girl, some James Kochalka, one of Sam Henderson's always hilarious books and Jeffrey Brown's Incredible Change-Bots (which I used to think was the best Transformers comic ever made, but that was before Tom Scioli had made Transformers vs. G.I. Joe and Go-Bots).

On the right is a completely random assortment of books, grouped together there simply because I didn't seem to have enough books from those publishers to give them their own shelf. And so this motley corner includes Roar's Dinosaucers and The Scarecrow Princess, Scholastic/Graphix's The Dumbest Idea Ever and Sparks, a pair of Jane Mai books, Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim follow-up Seconds, Nimona, Ahoy Comics' Jesus sitcom Second Coming, the seemingly-made-just-for-Caleb Giraffes on Horseback Salad, Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers (Hey, I loved the Darkstalkers arcade game, and have always been a fan of those character designs, even if none of their comics are ever very good; I even bought the Viz mini-series back in 1998, when Viz was still publishing manga in single-issue comics format). Oh, and something called Sharkasaurus, which I 100% bought just because of the title and the cover (But which must not have been very good, as I don't remember anything at all). 

Considering the right half of the shelf now, I realize that it consists mostly of books I had either gotten review copies of or had bought specifically so that I could review them, as I wrote about almost all of these, with few exceptions (like Bian Chippendale's weird-ass Maggots from PictureBox).

I'd highly recommend just about everything on this shelf (Save for Sharkasaurus and Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers...and maybe Dinosaucers, depending on whether or not you watched the cartoon as a kid).