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> Genre: Comedy/Humor > When the Bully is the Hero, the Girl is in love with a God and there are spaceships up your nose.

When the Bully is the Hero, the Girl is in love with a God and there are spaceships up your nose.

Animal Crackers by Gene Luen Yang

January 28, 2021 by BlackRaven 12 Comments

Gene Luen Yang can write the instructions to how to make a sandwich and I would read it. That does not mean I will love it, but I will always appreciate it. And Animal Crackers is in that category. I was not jumping up and down about it, and even with a second reading (although a bit of a quick one) and being able to put together a few more pieces I missed the first time, I still did not love this graphic novel.

This book is about life, choices, religion, and yourself. Broken into two main parts, with a third smaller one, this collection combines two individual stories that come from earlier works by Yang. The first and second part are two characters dealing with life, love, friendships, weird dreams, food experiments and talking animal crackers. The third part is about a character that comes to our attention in the first section but is given his own part to help you have another piece of the puzzle and to fill in how a cupcake can be so right and so wrong at the same time.

The first story is about bullies, aliens up our noses, friendship, and forgiveness. The second story about how we must forgive, understand hope, and aliens up our noses. Pay attention to the art as people, places and things overlap the two. These stories are just life, with the metaphor of hope. We deal with bullies, being the bully, crushes, hatred, and friends who have one heck of a belch after diet root beer.

You just go with the flow and find out what you are going to find out. While any age from 10 up could read, I do not know if they would be okay with some of the concepts as, except for some language, content is mostly PG. The end includes a minicomic of Yang telling you the ins and outs of the making of Animal Crackers.

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: bullies, emotions, Feelings, Gene Luen Yang, Gods/Devils, heroes, life, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:52 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: bullies, emotions, Feelings, Gene Luen Yang, Gods/Devils, heroes, life, Social Themes ·
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  1. faintingviolet says

    January 28, 2021 at 10:48 am

    Happy Cannonball!

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    • BlackRaven says

      January 28, 2021 at 11:20 am

      Thanks! I hadn’t realized until just now.

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      • Emmalita says

        January 28, 2021 at 12:43 pm

        Congrats on being the first to Cannonball this year, even unintentionally.

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        • BlackRaven says

          January 28, 2021 at 1:07 pm

          It was a nice surprise! (And thanks!)

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  2. Malin says

    January 28, 2021 at 11:23 am

    Happy Cannonball! Well done.

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    • BlackRaven says

      January 28, 2021 at 11:42 am

      Thanks! Being sick and losing my phone did wonders for my reading!

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      • andtheIToldYouSos says

        January 28, 2021 at 3:29 pm

        HAPPY CANNONBALL! Hope you’re feeling better!

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        • BlackRaven says

          January 28, 2021 at 4:51 pm

          Thanks! And I am!

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  3. zinka says

    January 28, 2021 at 4:46 pm

    Happy cannonball!

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  4. BlackRaven says

    January 28, 2021 at 4:59 pm

    Thanks!!

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  5. MsWas says

    January 29, 2021 at 4:58 am

    w00t!! Congratulations on being the first to 52 for the second year running! And a couple of days ahead of last year, too. 2021 is already kicking 2020’s ass, so I know there’ll be a ton more Cannonballers behind you.

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    • BlackRaven says

      January 29, 2021 at 11:06 am

      Thanks! I’m always surprised when I 52! And can’t wait to see what we all have to offer!!!!! <3

      Reply

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