Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Are you a good monster or a bad monster?

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

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This incredible graphic novel is Emil Ferris’ first but not, thank goodness, her last. Volume 2 is due out next March and I’ve already pre-ordered my copy. My Favorite Thing is Monsters is a graphic novel that deals with intense issues and features stunning artwork. Set in 1960s Chicago, the novel involves contemporary events, an illness, child abandonment and abuse, a murder with possible connections to Nazi Germany, and an abiding love of fine art and monsters. The fact that it is narrated by a 10-year-old girl who thinks of herself as a werewolf/detective, and who may not understand all […]

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8/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Gotham Academy continues to rock

Gotham Academy: Second Semester Vol 1 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl

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Gotham Academy: Second Semester Vol 1 is the second arc of the YA-oriented series for DC and picks up after the winter break for the kids at GA. (Non-spoiler series blurb for those who missed the first arc: our main character is Olive Silverlock, a returning scholarship student at Gotham Academy. Olive suffered a pretty traumatic event over the summer which resulted in her mother being institutionalized. Her best friend is Mia “Maps” Mizoguchi, an enthusiastic and inquisitive freshman bent on uncovering all the secrets, real or imagined, at their slightly spooky school. The series is set in Gotham, so […]

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7/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

If Hell was really under construction, nights like this could serve as building blocks.

They found the car by Gipi

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This book opens with the mysterious line “They found the car,”   Our two main characters are driving, they arrive at a house in the middle of the night – a house they haven’t visited for seven years and they wake a man from his sleep and drag him into the night. It’s hard to explain the contents of this novel. It reads like an epilogue of what happened seven years ago. It is a free floating epilogue in this world and through it a nameless narrator steps outside of the story narrating across the frames of the comic, inside […]

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7/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

You know, for kids!

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Volumes 1-2 by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder, Natacha Bustos

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About a year ago, the Marvel Comic Moon Girl got a lot of positive press because its heroine is a young girl of color and because it was revealed that Lunella Lafayette, aka Moon Girl, is perhaps the smartest character in the Marvel Universe, outshining intellects such as Tony Stark and Reed Richards. Lunella is a science/math/engineering wunderkind and a fourth grader. She is also bored at school, friendless, and, in her opinion, deeply misunderstood by most of the people in her life, including but not limited to parents and teachers. The cool thing about these Moon Girl books, and […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

Conflicted. Still, till death.

Rat Queens Volume 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Tess Fowler and Bonvillain

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I love the rat queens. The first book was amazing, fresh and funny. The second book was fast paced and hilarious. Before I read the third volume I went back and re-read the second one. That when I realized it was like a whole new book. I couldn’t remember anything about it at all. Apparently this series quality is deteriorating. And fast. It’s been a week since I read the third one. And I can’t really tell you what it’s about.  There is a bunch of flashing back and forth, and a weird plot about a university take over that […]

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6/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

Full dark, no stars.

Saga: Volume 7 by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples

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I, like pretty much everyone else in the world, love this series. It is one of the few books I have ever pre-ordered, but my mind is like a sieve, so I was very surprised when it suddenly arrived in my mailbox. Vaughn and Staples’ Volume 7 is dark. This is a dark series – there is always something going wrong for Alana and Marko, but this one felt particularly hopeless. It starts off on a high note – the family is reunited and expanded, developing a close relationship with another refugee family on a war torn comet. We also […]

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5/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Once More With Feeling

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 by Christos Gage, Rebekah Isaacs, Megan Levens, Joss Whedon, Nicholas Brendon

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Old wounds, old enemies, and old questions all play a big part in season 10 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse Comics.  For the first time since the series was restarted in comics format this season feels the most like the original television series in both scope and the characters and how the interact with each other. If you are not caught up on the series I will try to quickly summarize the pertinent bits. If you are not familiar with the series in television than I have no idea why you are reading this anyway. Get ye […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

The Good, the Bad, and the Lumberjane

Lumberjanes: Sink or Swim (vol 6) by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carey Pietsch (ills.)

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The good: returning to a main storyline about trying to figure out the supernatural goings-on at summer camp. I was feeling let down by the last volume, because of its use of a series of short stories that had little direct connection to the main storyline. Now we’re back to the unusual happenings and trying to figure out what they all mean. It also worked to re-arrange the team for a little while, with Molly and Ripley working on one part of the problem in one place, and the rest of the gang working on the other end. The introduction […]

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5/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

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