joelle jones

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

Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki, Joelle Jones

June 5, 2018 by J Leave a Comment

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. […]

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

She throws a boffo cocktail party

Lady Killer by Jamie S. Rich, Joelle Jones

January 8, 2017 by emmalita 2 Comments

The cover of Jamie S. Rich and Joelle Jones’ Lady Killer grabbed me, and though the reviews I read were middling, I bought it. Josie Sculler is a picture perfect housewife, mom, and assassin. Her husband and children are oblivious. Her mother in law has suspicions that all is not right. How does she do it? When we first meet Josie, she’s posing as an Avon lady to get into a target’s house. She looks like a sexier Jackie Kenedy. When her plan to poison her intended victim is thwarted by badly behaved terriers, Josie adapts and attacks with a […]

1/8/2017 emmalita's CBR9 Review No:7 |

Bewitched meets Kill Bill

Lady Killer by Joelle Jones

January 5, 2016 by yesknopemaybe 4 Comments

There are no words adequate to describe how much I loved this graphic novel. I’ve never given a 5 star review to a graphic novel before, so that should say something. The premise is simple, a seemingly normal housewife, Josie, in the early 60s moonlights as a contract killer. She has a suspicious mother-in-law, a doting and clueless husband, and two sweet children. Everything is going perfectly until her family time cuts into her professional time and her annoying boss turns up at her house unexpectedly. Everything about this graphic novel combines to make the sum of its parts greater […]

1/5/2016 yesknopemaybe's CBR8 Review No:4 |

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