I might have gotten more out of both of these if I had reread (or at least skimmed) previous volumes first? I don't know, I guess I more or less know what's going on, and am fairly content to just float along with it. But if there were supposed to be moments of revelation here, answers to mysteries or putting pieces together, I think I'm missing ( Read more... )

Ghost Spider: Dog Days Are Over. I just didn't care about any of this. And why is there a supervillain who looks like some kind of green goblin called "the Jackal"? That's not what jackals look like at all, and it's also a little weird when there's already someone called Green Goblin and it's not them.

Once & Future: The King is Undead. I kind of ( Read more... )

I read Invisible Kingdom on paper earlier in the year, but for some reason I then forgot that I could read the other Hugo comics that way too, and was miserably getting through a couple of pages at a time of the PDF of Parable of the Sower. But now I have once again remembered that just because something is in the packet it doesn't mean I have to ( Read more... )

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor, Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin. I was extremely excited when I saw that Garrity and Baldwin were doing a graphic novel together - I've been a fan of each of them since Narbonic and Bruno respectively (god, remember when "webcomics" was, like, Bruno, Sluggy, GPF, and PVP? dude), although I have to admit I ( Read more... )

No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest, Robin Robinson. Middlegrade graphic novel about a goblin trying to rescue her impetuous little sister from the titular Enchanted Forest. I liked this a lot - the relationship between the sisters, and the new people they meet, the colors, the creature and scenery designs, the eventual resolution. Robinson ( Read more... )

Invisible Kingdom vol 2, Edge of Everything. I liked this better than vol 1 - I think the pacing was a lot better now that they'd done all the set-up and could just focus on telling a story. And I like a good temporary psychic bond. I wouldn't say I'm super into it - still not my favorite art style - but I was curious enough to see if there's ( Read more... )

Invisible Kingdom vol 1, Walking the Path. G Willow Wilson, Christian Ward. Prereq reading for when I eventually get to the Graphic Novels. I feel like there are cool concepts here... kind of doing a Firefly thing... but, augh, the pacing. There just wasn't any space or time for me to care about anybody! One second the protag is becoming a nun, ( Read more... )

The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor. YA graphic novel set in a California logging camp in 1885, where a 13-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, helps her father cook for the loggers. It's about family and friendship and immigration and history and folktales and it made me tear up and there are maps and labeled logging tools and it's SO GOOD. Mei had ( Read more... )

Aster and the Mixed-Up Magic, sequel to Aster and the Accidental Magic, Thom Pico and Karensac. Like the first one, cute middlegrade graphic novel fantasy, very Hilda-esque; Q feels that there has to be another one but I thought they were doing an "adventures will continue!" open ending.

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The Daughters of Ys, M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux, 2020 graphic novel. Damn this was good. Rioux's art is gorgeous - reminded me a lot of Charles Vess - and it was *gripping* (like, you know Certain Things are going to go down, but now *how* exactly). I had the theme from Der Erlkonig stuck in my head for half of it (it's a quick read so that wasn' ( Read more... )