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Yuri and Victor are Lady Werewolves

Moonstruck Volume 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis and Shea Beagle

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Moonstruck (Vol 1: Magic to Brew) has the potential to be something like Yuri on Ice, in that the story revolves around a really adorable same sex couple trying to navigate a new and promising relationship. It also features one character with confidence to spare, and another who has a habit of getting overwhelmed by self-doubt. While the core relationship reminds me of the beloved skating anime, there are some significant differences. First, Moonstruck’s main couple, Julie and Selena, who are female, live in a world where supernatural beings like werewolves, minotaurs, ghosts, and centaurs live openly alongside regular humans. […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Children and War in Afghanistan

The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel by Deborah Ellis

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This graphic novel was adapted from a film version of Deborah Ellis’ novel The Breadwinner. The novel is actually part of a series much acclaimed in Canada, and based on this graphic novel version of the first volume, I can understand why. It is visually gorgeous, and the story, which is based on things Ellis learned while touring an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan in 1997, is gripping. The Breadwinner is the story of an 11-year-old girl named Parvana who has to disguise herself as a boy in order to take care of her family in the wake of the […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Skillfully tackling serious issues in a YA graphic novel

Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

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This short (about 140 pages) graphic novel was created by the same Canadian cousin team that gave us This One Summer. In fact this graphic novel was their first. Nominated for an Eisner (among other awards), Skim is the story of Kim (aka Skim), a Japanese Canadian teen who is struggling with a variety of issues, including matters related to sexuality, depression and suicide.  The story is told in three parts. Part I: Fall, takes place in fall but is also about falling. Kim serves as our narrator via her diary, and through her entries we learn about her relationships […]

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6/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

Tugs at your heart

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

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Ghosts is the most recently published of Raina Telgemeier’s graphic novels and also the most fantastical.  Since I had read and reviewed her other three books earlier this year, it seemed only appropriate to do this one as well.  While I didn’t connect to this story the way I did Smile and Drama, I did fall for the characters and the story of family, identity, and death. Cat’s younger sister, Maya, was born with cystic fibrosis, it affects her lungs and digestive system and there is no cure.  The family moves from their Southern California home to the coastal Northern California town of Bahia […]

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6/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

The magick continues

Black Magick Awakening Volume II by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott

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The detective/noir/occult tale continues! Volume 1 introduced the reader to Rowan Black, Portsmouth Police detective who is also a witch. She has a good relationship with her work partner Morgan and with her friend (lover?) Alexandra Grey, who is also a witch. These relationships are in peril, however, as a series of crimes shows that dark forces are at work, and they are targeting Rowan. The first installment ends with a shadowy group of technologically savvy investigators tracking down Rowan. We cannot yet guess who they are or what their intentions are regarding Rowan. Volume 2 opens with a flashback […]

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6/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

Big Nate and friends

Big Nate: What's a Little Noogie Between Friends? by Lincoln Peirce

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While this book is not in a novel format, there are books in the Big Nate series. These comics in Big Nate: What’s a Noogie Between Friends by Lincoln Peirce were in newspapers from mid-October 2012 to mid-April 2013. The comics are about an over confident middle-schooler who does not always understand why the world does not go as planned. A number of modern images are shown (a single dad, multi-cultural students) there are the themes that are timeless: girl troubles, best friends and school. There is no theme to the comics and even will bounce back and forth to […]

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6/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:198 |

If you must wear someone, you could do a lot worse than Deadpool

Deadpool: Back in Black by Cullen Bunn, Salva Espin

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The second part of my Deadpool birthday swag, Back in Black is set between the moment that the alien symbiote, Venom, abandoned his Spidey-host and before he latched on to Eddie Brock, and spent a while driving Deadpool’s body around instead. To be completely honest, I don’t really know much about the character of Venom besides what I saw in Spidey 3 where it turned Peter Parker into an even bigger douche than Tobey Maguire is in real life.  But while Venom doesn’t succeed in turning Deadpool into that big of a douchebag, it does make for a more subdued […]

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6/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

It’s not enough to be a teenager, but an alien, too?

Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki, Joelle Jones

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Kara is in the thick of adolescent growing pangs, unsure of her place in the world, like any first world teenager. She’s surrounded by people she loves and who love her in return, but she struggles to connect in a meaningful way. You know… because she can lift tractors with a single hand and fly and stuff. So when her powers start going a little haywire, there’s nowhere to turn for support. Is it some sort of super-puberty? Or is something else going on? Tamaki’s story is aching and quiet, and Jones’s illustration is a perfect match to the story. […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |


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