Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Some Problems, but the Ending’s Worth It

I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura

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I try not to look at too many reviews of something before I actually read it, but usually skim through a few to get an idea of whether or not I’ll like something. I don’t always agree, but this time I did. On both the positive and negative. I Kill Giants gets praised for both its exploration of a child dealing with grief and trauma, and its narrative structure; but criticism for some characters and use of hateful language in a few places. I agree […]

A love story I could really get behind

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The final item of my Deadpool birthday goodies (that I’ve been stringing out since May), pretty much every moment of this was an absolute blast, so much so that I’ve already put the remaining volumes on my Christmas wishlist. In Volume 1: Isn’t It Bromantic, we find Deadpool wooing Spiderman in the hopes of them becoming BFFs. There’s nothing he won’t do to win Spidey over, including tricking Thor into a double-date (resulting in a Ladies Night to remember at the Hellhouse club), but there’s […]

YA Lit, Grief and Trauma: Part II

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I Kill Giants is a graphic novel geared toward teens and young adults. It was nominated for and/or won a number of prestigious awards, including an Eisner. Much like the last book I reviewed (I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter), this story centers on the effect of grief and trauma on a young girl. In this case, our protagonist is 5th grader Barbara Thorson, a girl who revels in Dungeons and Dragons, has no friends amongst her peers, is frequently bullied, is defiant toward […]

Some giants need slaying

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I’ve been struggling to make my way through a novel and decided to take a sideways read. Influenced by an article on Pajiba I picked up I Kill Giants, the graphic novel by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura. I’m a fan of the medium and thought it was worth a read without knowing the plot beyond that described in the article. A simple way to describe this is that it’s about a teenage girl (Barbara Thorson) who seems isolated and ostracised from the world around […]

I Swoop in Like an Ethically Diverse Knight

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Joe Kelly’s Deadpool isn’t my favorite Deadpool. He comes after Duggan and Posnehr’s Deadpool and after Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool, but any Deadpool is pretty great. Especially when he’s making Spider-Man nuts with his bromance. Deadpool and Spider-Man are just hanging around. The Merc with the Mouth is mouthing off and Spidey wishes he would just shut up. Naturally Deadpool got Spider-Man into some kind of mess, because no one goes anywhere willingly with Wade Wilson. So now they are hanging upside down and being threatened […]



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