Michael Rex – Cannonball Read 17

Fred, looking for friends in all the wrong places

Low Power: A Graphic Novel (Your Pal Fred) by Michael Rex

September 13, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Book one of the Your Pal Fred series opens with Fred waking after (I forget how many) centuries to a dystopian earth. He is a friendship robot who on the perky scale makes Sandy Duncan and Mr. Rogers look like grumps. And in his very special way (being kind, talking things out, staring contests, etc) saves the day. With volume two, Low Power: A Graphic Novel (Your Pal Fred) Michael Rex continues our Robot Friend Fred’s journey to make everyone friends. This time around we […]

“Welcome to the future! The future stinks.” (Your Pal Fred)

Your Pal Fred Volume One by Michael Rex

Doom’s Day Camp V02 The Story Eater by Joshua Hauke

December 7, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had an odd reading arc at the end of 2023. I found some not overly happy books. One was a book about Palestine and Gaza, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, and two books about the apocalypse. Not to mention the teen novel about a “camp” to train teenage assassins. However, there was humor in the two apocalypse books. In Your Pal Fred Volume One, Michael Rex made a character that is from the past. He wakes up in the seriously dystopian world of […]

What do you want to do Monster?

October 2, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Eat Pete by Michael Rex is more of a 3.5 rating. This is because I am on the fence about the ending. I am not sure (spoiler) I like the “hug” aspect that the monster does (instead of wanting to eat Pete) but of course, I know that you cannot have the monster eating Pete (well second spoiler, at least not eating him for good this time). My absolute favorite part of the book are the facial expressions on the monster when the words EAT […]

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