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Two for the paw of one

Super Turbo Saves the Day by Lee Kirby

Pup Detectives V01 The First Case by Feliz Gumpaw

September 25, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My recent vacation time was meant to be reading time. But I had a few adventures and just a lot of “Boy, am I too tired to read anything too serious; but OH LOOK! Two short, cute looking young, graphic novels!” The first read was Super Turbo Saves the Day by Lee Kirby, George O’Connor and Stan Kirby. It is also the first in the Super Turbo series. This familiar story of classroom pets who take it upon themselves to protect their classrooms when students […]

Putting the Kick in Sidekick

Super Sidekicks #1: No Adults Allowed by Gavin Aung Than

August 14, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Due November 2020, this funny, clever and modern story is going to be your child’s newest reading series. Super Sidekicks #01: No Adults Allowed follows three superhero sidekicks who are tired of the “kick” part in “sidekick” (after all if they are so super, how come they can’t wash their own super costumes, walk their pets and clean their own secret hideaways?) Therefore, JJ and his fellow sidekicks, go off on their own. Here they learn what friendship is all about and though fighting the […]

People swallow lies easily provided they are big enough

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

August 1, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Yellow I’ve been in the mood to revisit Watchmen since I saw the extraordinary HBO series earlier this year (best television in recent memory, btw). Then references to the comic book series popped up in Eleanor & Park, and it gave me an extra push to reread the graphic novel that I first encountered when I was in college. Plus. . . .can’t get more yellow than that cover, can you? I wanted to see whether this classic holds up after 34 years, […]

I’d probably read the phone book if Gene Luen Yang wrote it

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

June 22, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When Gene Luen Yang first started creating graphic novels, I wonder if he thought, “Someday I going to write one that has Superman fighting the Klan that is based on the 1940’s radio program.” And in 2020 out comes Superman Smashes the Klan with its connection to that past and all too relevance today. While this is not my favorite Yang graphic novel (mostly because, while I like Superman, he is not my favorite DC character and honestly have less interest in his stories), it […]

She puts the Wonder in Woman

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

May 15, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I like superheroes. Which some find funny as I am a villain girl. How I love me a good, ol’ baddie! However, when you have an interesting or relatable hero, I tend to find them more to my tastes (but it does not hurt that Adam West was funny and I would not mind saluting Captain American). Okay, I mixed my DC and Marvel there, but this book, Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, is a new DC adaptation due in June of this year. Laurie Halse […]

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 […]

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