Extraterrestrial beings – Cannonball Read 17

Orphans and them

We Called Them Giants by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans and Clayton Cowles

December 26, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have had We Called Them Giants by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans and Clayton Cowles as an online reader copy for a few months. I have had opportunities to read it, but for the most part I figured it would expire before I had a chance to. Thankfully I was able to find it and read it at lunch today. It was an interesting experience. This graphic novel is an on book. We know the dystopian aspects (a girl wakes up one morning to find […]

Hilo and friends are repeat business!

Hilo V03 The Great Big Boom by Judd Winick

January 13, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Great Big Boom is the third instalment of the Hilo graphic novel series. Judd Winick continues the same humor (one mention of repeat business, along with the usual puns, action and more), illustrations (bright, bold, with the comic book/graphic novel style) and adventures of the first two (battling the baddies). This time our heroes Hilo and DJ must save Gina from the portal she was sucked into at the end of our last adventure. But portal travel is tricky (so tricky in fact Hilo […]

Super bad. Super funny. Super (embarrassingly) relatable.

School for Extraterrestrial girls V01 1 Girl on Fire by Jeremy Whitley

September 30, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

School for Extraterrestrial girls V01 1 Girl on Fire is one of the most amazingly bad and wonderful books I have read in a while. Jeremy Whitley has included all the clichés of high school drama (best friends fighting, not fitting in, being cruel to another (even accidently), roommate issues, protesting “the man” with not-so-subtle rebellions acts, girls on fire, snooty classmates and an almost lovers feud). And it is all tied up in a book about alien girls living on Earth. You will find […]

They came from outer space….

Supers (Book One): A Little Star Past Cassiopeia by Frederic Maupome

May 11, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have been interested in this graphic novel for awhile now, but never got around to it. Mostly because it was a book one. And now I wish I had not read it. Not because it is bad. In fact, just the opposite and I am unable to locate any edition after in English. Thanks a lot Frederic Maupome! Supers (Book One): A Little Star Past Cassiopeia is a comfortable story. It is familiar but not necessarily done before. Matt is starting a new school […]

Friends! Adventure! Robots! All she needs now is a catch phrase.

Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

June 4, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The graphic novels featuring Zita the Spacegirl are back in two more adventures (from 2012 and 2014). The first (technically second) book is Legends of Zita the Spacegirl #2 and the second (technically third) book is The Return of Zita the Spacegirl. Ben Hatke published Zita in 2011 but had been working on her for years. Both stories flow well and are solid stories. Even though the first two books “wrap up” that books story, there are open endings to each of them. Therefore, it […]

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