Finally! You ever end up with a book that you don’t think you will EVER finish? That’s how I felt about Comic Wars, by Dan Raviv.

Don’t get me wrong: It is an interesting book, detailing the near bankruptcy of the company that has brought about some of my all-time favorite superheroes, including my favorite band of merry mutants, the X-Men. But it was a dense mofo. Any book that’s more than 300 pages of single-spaced, 11-point-font text with no hard returns between paragraphs is going to take a while to read – especially when it deals with the machinations of Wall Street slime.

This was like Gordon Gekko: The Marvel Years. If you think that Wall Street tycoons are nothing but fiduciary schmucks…well, this book is most assuredly not going to change your opinion. Didn’t really do much to bolster my view of lawyers either. It’s also a lot of posturing, investor speak, legalese, and courtroom grappling, so if you’re not of that mindset, it might be a long and dull road at some points.

All that said, I’m glad that I stuck with it and finally finished it. Final score for Mr. Raviv’s effort: 3/5.

I’ve already jumped right in to Book 10, It Ain’t All About the Cookin’, Paula Deen’s memoir. Favorite part so far? The library book has a smudge of what looks like chocolate fudge along the top of the front cover (oh, I hope it’s fudge). What else would Paula Deen’s memoir have on it? Well, maybe a big stick of butter as the bookmark…