Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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There’s a good reason for bikini armor

Heathen by Natasha Alterici, Ashley A. Woods

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Cbr18 Bingo – Craft: the main character crafted a Viking helmet with horns because she’s a heathen. (They’re antlers, but take that, Christians.) There are watercraft. Storytelling and story listening are both important to the narrative. Heathen is a comic book by Natasha Alterici, Ashley A. Woods, et al. I don’t know enough to say if it’s based on Norse mythology or not, but I know enough to say the story is based in it. It takes place a long time ago, but not that […]

Edgar Allen Poe: The MUU-SIC-CAL! (jazz hands)

Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention by Norm Konyu

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I laughed. I laughed some more. I laughed until tears almost ran down my leg.  Oh sorry, TMI. Yeah, Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention by Norm Konyu is an A-M-A-ZING! tale. All of Poe flashes before your eyes (or at least the highlights of his written career) in a funny, rhyming poem that outlines the wails and woes of our beloved author. Things are delightfully somber, lively, with bold images colorfully dancing across the pages to illustrate the Glory Be of […]

Me and Kaeti Vandorn

Friends in the Dark (I Like to Read Comics) by Kaeti Vandorn

Wiggler's Big Joke (I Like to Read Comics) by Kaeti Vandorn

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When you read as much as I do, things can start to look and feel similar; especially with children’s books. Usually I just think, “That reminds me of something” but try not to dwell too much on it, otherwise I’ll be as nutty as people think I am!  And when I tried two online reader copies recently they seemed familiar but honestly didn’t raise any alarms (mostly because the familiar was more the age levels and less the look or story). Only when I was […]

Frankenstein: But with cats. And funny

Frankenstein: A Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley, Lorenzo Coltellacci, Mary Shelley, Lorenzo Coltellacci and Federica De Cotis

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Frankenstein: A Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley, Lorenzo Coltellacci (Adapter), Michele Botton (Adapter), Federica De Cotis (Illustrator)   Due October 2026 read via an online reader copy. When the book started, it’s set in an arctic landscape. My brain said, “Isn’t this how Dracula opens? A ship? Ice?” My brain said, “Yes ship;  ice no.” And then, “But wasn’t there a scene in the film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Men that looked like this?” My brain said, “Yes, I think we are remembering […]

I did not expect what I got

Fustuk: A Graphic Novel by Robert Mgrdich Apelian

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When I read Fustuk: A Graphic Novel by Robert Mgrdich Apelian, I expected something completely different. I guess I thought there would be more fantasy, less realism. And while I was not exactly sure what that meant, or would entail, I did not expect what I got. And in the end, I think it might have been better than I thought.  The setting and use of food are unique with the coming of age and self-discovery is a comforting familiar part of the story. The […]

I can’t get over Platypusary is a real word

Penelope's Escape from the Platypusary by Arianna Irwin

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I had seen Penelope’s Escape from the Platypusary by Arianna Irwin in various places (emails, catalogs, an online reader copy). One day there was a “sign up for getting copies of these reader copies” so I did. And I was lucky enough to receive several of them, with this one being an email with an attachment to a full copy of the graphic novel (granted I was hoping for a physical copy). Yet, I almost decided not to read when I learned it was “based […]



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