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I don’t get it part 2

Tales of Woodsman Pete by Lilli Carre

February 6, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Here’s the Amazon Description: “From one of the bright new faces in the indie comix scene comes a collection of vignettes and stories about a solitary albeit gregarious woodsman with a loose grasp on his own personal history and that of the outside world. He forms relationships with his inanimate surroundings and muses to a dead audience, specifically his bear rug Phillippe. His own tales eventually become entangled with that of the legendary Paul Bunyan, and the two become indirectly intertwined, illuminating the discrepancy between […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Lilli Carre, Tales of Woodsman Pete

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:38 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Lilli Carre, Tales of Woodsman Pete ·
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I most definitely don’t get it Part 1

Micrographica and The Ticking by Renee French

February 6, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So here’s what the first book looks like: And also it looks like this: And sometimes it even looks like this: . Indeed, my friend.   This is a book about hamster like creatures arguing on a ball of crap. Sometimes one of them gets a swelling on his nose and it looks like the swelling on the nose you see above. The best part of this graphic story is the guest artist section in the back, because the artist found several of her friends and colleagues, […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Micrographica, Renee French, The Ticking

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:37 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Micrographica, Renee French, The Ticking ·
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I am trying to figure out the audience here.

Kindred by Octavia Butler

February 6, 2017 by vel veeter 1 Comment

I need to say straight away that I love the novel Kindred, which I read for a Black Women’s Writers class in college. It was an inspired choice to put on the syllabus that also included Song of Solomon, Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell, Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams among others. I think that that novel is a tremendous combination of sci fi, 1970s Black writing, political fire, angst, and a few other things all tied into one great novel. It shares some really important themes […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: kindred, octavia butler, octavia e. butler

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:35 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: kindred, octavia butler, octavia e. butler ·
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Deliciously scary graphic stories.

February 6, 2017 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

Add this book to the list of things I would’ve never picked up in a bajillion years if I hadn’t found it on CBR. Add this to one of my favorite books ever. I thought I hated graphic novels. I thought I hated horror. I thought I hated creepy gothic stuff. Apparently not. Who even am I? I don’t know. This book is just gorgeous. The illustrations are stunning and mysterious and creepy and terrifying. It’s like five little illustrated ghost stories. In “Our Neighbor’s […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: emily carroll, gothic, graphic, horror

Blingle Bells's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: emily carroll, gothic, graphic, horror ·
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Still No Idea What Is Going On

February 3, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I gave this 3.5 stars and rounded it up to 4 stars here.  I think I may just wait after I finish the third comic for a full volume to be put together. There are still too many unanswered questions for me to be able to even figure out why there is a schism between Jessica Jones, the Avengers, and Luke Cage. This comic focuses more on Jessica and Luke though which I appreciated. We get some flashbacks to Jessica giving birth, […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Brian Bendis, comic, jessica jones, Jessica Jones #2, Jessica Jones 2016

Classic's CBR9 Review No:30 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Brian Bendis, comic, jessica jones, Jessica Jones #2, Jessica Jones 2016 ·
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Lacks Heart of Lunar Chronicles

February 3, 2017 by Classic 2 Comments

I never thought a day would come where I would not be fan-girling over a new Marissa Meyer work. Sadly that day is here. I thought about this a lot last night, and I think the biggest issue I have with this graphic novel, is that the characters we have come to love in the books are so flat in graphic novel form. I just honestly didn’t care what was going to happen throughout and found my mind wandering as I did. And some of […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Douglas Holgate, graphic novels, Marissa Meyer, science fiction, Wires and Nerve: Volume 1, Young Adult

Classic's CBR9 Review No:29 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Douglas Holgate, graphic novels, Marissa Meyer, science fiction, Wires and Nerve: Volume 1, Young Adult ·
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