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Magic!!! (jazz hands)

Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain: A Graphic Novel by Juan E. Zambrano

January 10, 2025 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

We have seen this story before: Boys cannot do magic. They cannot be witches. The non witches also think witches are evil and bad. Witches think non witches are beneath them and if they have any trace of magic it is not pure and therefore not worthy of paying attention to. But in Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain: A Graphic Novel by Juan E. Zambrano (due June 2025) this story is told with a bit of fun and humor, plus a few twists […]

The Myth, the Magic, The Woman

Medea by Blandine Le Callet

January 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In Medea by Blandine Le Callet, Nancy Peña (Illustrator), Montana Kane (Translator) the question you must first ask yourself is can you trust this narrator or not? Then, are you seeing the true story or not? Has she been villainized to take blame away from the real culprits? Or is she the monster history says? Those questions and more, will come alive in this adaptation of Medea’s story. The afterwards show how the historical, myth and magic all came together, along with the creators adaptations, […]

You are already dead – IYKYK and now I know

Fist of the North Star, vol. 1-14 by Buronson, Tetsuo Hara

January 9, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

This is for vols 1-14, which is all my library has, although I did request vol. 15. My draw to the Fist of the North Star manga series was mostly that RGG/Sega made a video game of it and they made the Yakuza games. Written in the 80s and set in the Mad Max 1990s, the story is about Kenshiro wandering the post nuclear war wasteland pouting and blowing people up. Sometimes he has allies; always he has enemies; probably he has a plot. But […]

From Canada to Hong Kong, with Love

Uprooted by Ruth Chan

January 9, 2025 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Ruth has only known life in Canada. But when her Chinese-born father has a job opportunity in Hong Kong, he and his wife excitedly make plans to move back to their home country, uprooting Ruth from the only life she has known. Her older brother is a boarding school student and gets to stay behind, so Ruth, their pets, and her parents set off to start over. At least, it’s starting over for Ruth. She speaks a little Cantonese, as her parents insist on using […]

A champion, mimic and sorceress beat some bad guys and might have saved the world

Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide

January 8, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have no idea when I started the online reader copy of Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide. I do know that it was sometime in early to mid 2024 as I saw I might not want to start it as it was such a future publication. So I put it aside and promptly forgot about it. (Sorry!) However, I was smart enough to know I needed to save as many links as possible to it. I am not sure why, but thankfully I […]

Turkey trot

The Great Turkey Walk: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand Turkeys by Kathleen Karr and Michelle Bailat-Jones

January 8, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Great Turkey Walk: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand Turkeys by Kathleen Karr, Léonie Bischoff (illustrator), and Michelle Bailat-Jones was not something I expected to like as much as I did. I assumed since the original book was around 25 years old that it would be dated. But either it was updated, or the common, familiar themes were done well enough to adapt to future readers. I do not believe I have read the […]

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