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Crave by Maria Llovet – REVIEW
“Black Mirror meets Eyes Wide Shut in this dark and sexy erotic thriller.” YES, PLEASE. How am I supposed to pass up a graphic novel with a cover as beautiful as this? The answer is I can’t. With a cover this gorgeous, I couldn’t possibly pass it up Crave by Maria Llovet if I tried. Continue reading
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Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1, The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin – REVIEW
The Case of the Missing Men is volume one in the graphic novel Hobtown Mystery Stories and follows a high school Detective Club that solves crimes around Hobtown (population: 2,006). When the Club gets their first real case to solve, they start to uncover weird things happening under the surface of their town. The Case of the Missing Men is… Continue reading
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Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda – REVIEW
Is there a more epic combination than Godzilla and pirates? What about Godzilla, pirates, a monster island, and a secret society involving the Queen of England herself? Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons is a conspiracy-filled story that will keep you reading cover to cover. Continue reading
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Cat Fight by Andrew Wheeler and Ilias Kyriazis – REVIEW
Cat Fight is a wondrously fun comic, and this first volume is a colorful wild ride that you shouldn’t miss. Kitty Midnight is the most glamorous gray-haired woman you could imagine. You would never know that she runs the Kit Kat Crime Syndicate, a group of the world’s most skilled and notorious thieves. Her syndicate… Continue reading
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Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín
Ed Brubaker is quickly becoming a favorite comic creator of mine. Since December, I’ve devoured his graphic novels Night Fever and Where the Body Was, which were 5-star and 4-star reads for me, respectively. Since then, I’ve been picking up everything I see by Brubaker at my local bookstores. I jumped at the chance to… Continue reading
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Mary Tyler MooreHawk by Dave Baker
Like so many of my favorite books, Mary Tyler MooreHawk is near-impossible to categorize. Part dystopian literary fiction, part biographical magazine, and part nine-panel comic, Mary Tyler MooreHawk refuses to settle for just one genre. Dave Baker has succeeded in creating a multimedia masterpiece that has a lot to say about art, the pursuit of… Continue reading
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Graphic Novel Review – Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
I saw the cover of Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem and immediately wanted to read it. I am perpetually obsessed with almost every reimagining of Sherlock Holmes I find. And the fact Watson and Holmes is both noir and has black protagonists? I was so excited going into this. Continue reading
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Graphic Novel Review: Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
One truth about me is that I can’t refuse a weird-fiction graphic novel. I just recently finished my first Brubaker and Phillips title, and I couldn’t say no to reviewing another. I enjoyed Where the Body Was, and its story has stuck with me far more than I thought it would. I found the story in Night… Continue reading
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Ghost Roast by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs
Ghost Roast tells the story of Chelsea Grant, a high-schooler in New Orleans who finally got in the cool crowd at school this year. Only, they don’t know her dad is the local ghost-buster in town with the super-embarrassing commercials. After a pretty wild party on the last day of school, Chelsea’s grounded and forced to… Continue reading
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Graphic Novel Review: Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
I was in my early twenties when Serial first aired, and it sent me into a bit of a nose-dive into true-crime podcasts. I became enthralled with the podcast format and with crime journalism. While I’ve mostly stopped listening to podcasts these days, I love a good podcast trope in a book. Where the Body… Continue reading