In the beginning was the world. And it was weird. The One Hundred Nights of Hero is Isabel Greenberg’s second graphic novel and, apparently, a spin off from her first The Encyclopedia of Early Earth. The tale, or rather tales, since this is a story involving some amazing storytellers, takes place in Early Earth, and Early Earth was itself created by a girl named Kiddo. Kiddo is the daughter of the god Birdman, who created and lords over many other worlds and galaxies, but once […]
Where No Star Trek Fan May Have Gone Before …
There are so many branches to the Star Trek universe: novelizations, movies, re-boot film series, animated series, magazines, television series, toys, games, etc. that even the most dedicated fan, Trekkie or Trekker might have trouble keeping up. … Star Trek’s popularity and influence was not limited to the United States. The show may have been cancelled in 1969, but the next year in England, before the series had even premiered on British television, a series of comic strips appeared in weekly television magazines. Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, […]
Unique does not mean alone.
Goodreads recently posted the Hugo Nominations for Novel and Graphic Story, and while I don’t think I am going to make my way through many of the nominated books, I did find a few I was interested in. I already knew about Ms. Marvel and the nomination pretty much sealed that I go ahead a read a few issues. Turns out my library had all six volumes available and so here we are. Oh, also this comment inspired me to do so: “”message 1: by […]
You just met your arch-nemesis….and lost.
This is another comic I found because I was looking for comics to give to students who really liked Nimona when they read it last year. So what I did was look up two lists on Goodreads: Best Graphic Novels of 2016 and then Comics with Diverse Characters, or some version of the above. And yes, there will be a Ms. Marvel post coming in the next few days. I am on spring break. Do it up! Anyway, I don’t know anything about this hero, this […]
Flerken Cat
I am reviewing a bunch of comics in the next few reviews because of biting off more than I now realize I can chew. See what happened was: Last year I got a copy of Nimona for Christmas, read it, liked it a lot, and then put it in my classroom library. A bunch of students borrowed it and read it and loved it. And even though I know next to nothing about comics and graphic novels, I get lots of questions about recommendations. So I […]
“We’re all wired into a survival trip now.”
The first volume of Transmetropolitin is almost twenty years old and is still as disturbingly as relevant as it was in 1998. Warren Ellis’ twisted dystopian future doesn’t seem so far fetched given current events. I didn’t catch it at in its original release, much to my shame. I was worried that it wouldn’t hold up over time. I can’t say I’m 100% pleased to discover I was wrong. Spider Jerusalem a journalist who, by Ellis’ own admission was modeled after Hunter S. Thompson, […]
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