Graphic Novel – Page 34 – Cannonball Read 17

More than I was expecting

The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner

July 21, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Wow. This packed way more of a punch than I was expecting! Moth is a 13 year-old girl growing up in a coastal town in Massachusetts. She feels kind of out of place and doesn’t really have any friends, but she goes along with life anyway. When learning about the witch hunts that took place in town in the late 1600’s, something strange happens to Moth. Running home to tell her mother, she learns that she is from a family of witches! Moth wants to […]

When the Words Are Caught in Your Throat

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

July 10, 2019 by Classic 6 Comments

Trigger warning: Rape I don’t know what to say. I loved “Speak” when I read it back in 2015. I felt for Melinda and wanted to hug her throughout the story and loved how Anderson takes a long road to showing us what happened to Melinda and how her life became unraveled before her freshman year of high school. The graphic novel does a great job with showing us Melinda in the present day and her memories of her friends and of a party that […]

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers by Benjamin LeGrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

Snowpiercer 3: Terminus by Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette

July 9, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo Illustrated The Snowpiercer trilogy is an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I was on board after the first volume. It hinted at some very interesting history for its main character Proloff, as well as complex, sinister military and political machinations that precipitated the endless, deadly winter that has engulfed the world and forced survivors onto the Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving train. The reader was left with a number of cliffhangers at the end of that volume. And […]

That’s so Raven?

Teen Titans: Raven by Garcia, Kami

July 5, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

(I am so behind on my reviews here, but I guess it was good luck since I can return now that cbr11bingo is in swing – speaking of which, this is my entry for “ILLUSTRATED.”) This is my latest read from the DC graphic novels for young readers, and it was another good one! When a car accident leaves Raven Roth grieving her foster mother, she is also left with no memory of herself and is moved to New Orleans with her foster mother’s family […]

New generation of Avengers, with Kamala Khan’s Ms.Marvel and Miles Morale’s Spider-man (bonus review from Ysakitty)

All-New, All-Different Avengers Vol. 1: The Magnificent Seven by Mark Waid (author), Adam Kubert (illustrator), Mahmud Asrar (illustrator)

June 21, 2019 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Teenage, Pakistani American Kamala Khan’s turn as Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl drew us into the Marvel comic books. Previously we were primarily familiar with the Marvel movies. Then Into the Spider-verse came out and we went to find the Miles Morales comics that inspired the animated movie. In our last trip to the library we came across the All-New, All-Different Avengers which features both Ms. Marvel and Mile’s Spider-man. This graphic novel starts with a standalone comic featuring Scarlet Witch and Vision and then issues one […]

DC for the Raina Telgemeier crowd

Black Canary: Ignite by Cabot, Meg

June 15, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Black Canary is one of my favorite superheroes, but some might call me a casual fan because really it’s Brandon Fletcher/Annie Wu’s version of Dinah that is my favorite – an undercover punk rock singer fighting aliens and protecting her band. I haven’t read much else besides that version cuz I just like rereading it, ha! So this was the first sort of traditional “origin story” I read for Dinah, and Meg Cabot definitely sticks to the classic tale – daughter of a detective and […]

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