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Jack Phoenix

Author, Librarian, Comic Nerd

So, House of X #1…huh.

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

The mutant event of the decade is finally upon us, and the only thing that could make me happier is if Jonathan Hickman’s style were really my thing. Unfortunately, it is not. But just because[…]

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In the fight for access to eBooks, library supporters will need to pressure the publishers.

July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 Jack PhoenixLibraries

When I worked as a staff librarian for OverDrive, news came down from Macmillan that their Tor imprint would be implementing an embargo on library eBooks. Public libraries would not be allowed to purchase eBook[…]

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I cannot remember the last time I was this excited for an X-Men comic.

July 18, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

Despite the fact that this review of the first issue of Jonathan Hickman’s run on X-Men, which drops next week, incorrectly refers to his New Avengers title as Secret Avengers, it has me in a[…]

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Judge agrees to hold hateful Iowa man who burned library books live for attention accountable.

July 15, 2019 Jack PhoenixLibraries

This hateful man posted live on Facebook his personal crusade to burn library books for kids and teens. Among the thousands and thousands of children’s and teen’s books in that library that portray straight and[…]

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Horror legend John Carpenter takes on the Clown Prince of Crime

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

I have to be honest. I’m bored with the Joker. Seriously, Batman has, hands down, the best rogues gallery in all of comicdom, but the Joker is still overused. It’s funny how the Joker is[…]

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The hottest thing in libraries since drag queen storytimes…the Charlie Cart!

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019 Jack PhoenixLibraries

Okay, that headline is hardly true, as these Charlie Carts cost, oh, ballpark 10 grand, but still, this is big. Big systems such as San Francisco, Cleveland, etc. are implementing these bad boys to provide[…]

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It’s a Mad, Mad World…or it was.

July 5, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

It’s been a big week in the comics world with announcements of the ends of two influential works. Okay, so Mad Magazine isn’t technically ceasing publication, and it’s not nearly as much of a shock[…]

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There. I fixed it.

July 3, 2019 Jack PhoenixLibraries

There is a woman out there, sadly residing in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, who has declared libraries her enemy. Never in my wildest imaginings could I come up with a comic book villain so[…]

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Is The Walking Dead just hobbling now?

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

Well, I did not see this coming. No one did. Admittedly, I am behind (like years behind) on The Walking Dead comic, but, oddly, this gives me motivation to read the whole damn thing now,[…]

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Are publishers sabotaging libraries’ eBook lending?

June 29, 2019June 30, 2019 Jack PhoenixLibraries

When I was briefly a staff librarian at OverDrive, the announcement came down that PRH would be eliminating the One Copy/One User model for library eBooks (an eBook that can only be checked out one[…]

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A ravenous reader with a burning love for pop culture and balloon animals, Jack writes about comics, libraries, and comics in libraries. He is the recipient of two master’s degrees, one in Library and Information Science from Kent State University and the other in English from Ohio Dominican University. He now works as a manager for a public library in Greater Cleveland, where he lives with his husband, two dogs, and pet rats.

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