Graphic Novel Review: Sweet Tooth Vol. 6 – Wild Game
What a wonderful series! “Wild Game” is the last collection of these fantastic post-apocalyptic story by Jeff Lemire where humanity is being wiped out by some sickness while babies are being born as hybrids (animal-human). The last chapters narrates the…
Graphic Novel Review: El Deafo
My children got this award winning graphic novel by author/illustrator Cece Bell for Christmas from my brother and his wife. They usually are spot on with the books they get for my kids and when I saw my eight year…
Graphic Novel Review: Sweet Tooth Vol. 5 – Unnatural Habitats
This series hasn’t stopped surprising me. It’s just an amazing combination of art direction and story with interesting characters. The story just flows. In this volume the creative team takes what I would call a risk. For two issues they…
Graphic Novel Review: Sweet Tooth Vol. 4 – Endangered Species
I am still obsessed with this graphic novel about the post-apocalyptic future where most everyone dies of a sickness and kids are born like animal/human hybrids. I checked part 4 and 5 out from the library a few weeks ago…
Graphic Novel Review: Sweet Tooth Vol. 3
Well, I got to the third volume of Sweet Tooth, the post-apocalyptic adult comic book where most people were killed by some sickness (a la The Stand), and strange hybrid children begin to pop up everywhere. The story continues where…
Book Review: Hilo #3
I finally got around to reading the third book in the Hilo series. Hilo is a robot from another dimension who has some powers and a really quirky sense of humor. It’s written in comic book form and the adventures…
Graphic Novel Review: Courtney Crumrin Vol 1. The Night Things
I read the first volume of a one, Courtney Crumrin, only because my ten year old daughter put it in front of me and said, “Mom, you have to read this, you’d like this.” I looked at the book, it…
Graphic Novel Review: Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls
For those who don’t know, my favorite comic character is Batman and Scott Snyder captured the Batman I love close to perfection in this reboot of the Batman series for the New 52. Truly an amazing writer! Not only was…
Graphic Novel Review: Chew, Vol. 2 – International Flavor
I finished the second volume of the Chew graphic novels, which follows the adventure of F.D.A. agent John Chew in a world where eating poultry (and products) is forbidden because of a plague. In this world, there are people like…
Graphic Novel Review: Sweet Tooth, Volume 2: In Captivity
I am loving this graphic novel. It’s post-apocalyptic and I don’t often enjoy these kind of book, but for this one I’ll gladly make an exception. Sweet Tooth continues right were number one ended. We follow both Sweet Tooth (Gus)…