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I was all excited to read a comic book about a super-powered librarian and then I opened it up to see ... a foreword by Dave Sim. Famous raging misogynist Dave Sim. I have to admit, this put me off the whole thing before I read a single word of the actual text. Then, in the context of a foreword by woman-hater Dave Sim, I started thinking about the fact that Rex Libris is about a male librarian. Why not a female librarian with superpowers? It's a female-dominated profession, after all. So I was predisposed to be annoyed by this. Unfair? Perhaps. But if the comic had been really outstanding, I might have been able to get past it and I didn't think it was anything spectacular. The story is a bunch of mumbo jumbo about travelling to another planet and communicating with aliens using the gadgets owned by the public library. It's all written in the style of a Stan Lee era Marvel comic. Rex is supposed to be very educated and intelligent, but for some reason he talks with a strange sort of mob guy accent, saying "dis" and "dat" instead of "this" and "that." I never got why. Every once in a while, the story gets interrupted by discussions between Rex and his editor -- Rex actually leaves the story to go talk to the editor, and it's all so meta and clever. I'm disappointed because I think you could do a great librarian superhero without needing to insert lots of stuff about going to another galaxy to collect a fine.

Crass, funny, and eye-opening - made me appreciate home cooked food!

God bless this man for liberating me from my guilt over not keeping up with the latest "literary" phenom.

Amazing book, took a little while for me to settle into it, but worth reading. Had me guessing the entire time, but maybe that's because I'm only a teenager :). I certainly would hate having what happened to those girls happen to me. It's one of those books that you get lost in that makes you say, 'No! Don't do that to her! It'll hurt too much!' you know, one of those books where it's like you are the main character.