Two new titles to add to the graphic novel section that just came in:
Swans in Space vol. 2 by Lun Lun Yamamoto (978-1-897376-94-2)
The Incredibles: Family Matters by Mark Waid (978-1-934506-83-7, paperback)
I'm just psyched to get the next Swans, since my test reader (my daughter) liked the first one. The Incredibles leaves me psyched as well, since we've gotten several other Incredibles titles from Boom Studios, and I'm enjoyed them all. Good CLEAN superheros stories that don't read like something scripted for the back of a cereal box. So glad I have some money in the budget (this year at least) for a few things.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
3 Books I Just Read
Yeah, I know, boring title. Deal.
Anyway, I got two books on inter-library loan, and one off the shelf here. The two ILL books were to see if they were work buying (or should be teen titles) based on a great core collection list from the Good Comics for Kids people.
Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (978-1-934706-44-2) is great, and is going on my "must-buy" lists. Short, sweet, and entirely age-appropriate for younger readers.
Dragon Drive, vol. 1, by Ken-ichi Saura (978-1-4215-1187-0) is a manga based on a video game (and probably an anime, but I'm not sure). I'm afraid this is the kind of thing that makes me avoid manga. It bored me. The characters did not interest me, I really don't like graphic novels where most of the story is taken up by the fighting action, and even the "mystery" part of the plot doesn't inspire me to seek out the rest and read them. On the other hand, the violence contained no obvious bloodshed (it's all fighting-by-proxy) and there weren't even any "pantie shots" that I could see (though the one adult female wore some rather tight and/or short outfits). I'll put it on the "if I have money at the end of October" list and get the first few in the series. I just hope the violence doesn't accelerate.
The off-the-shelf book was just for fun. I finally read a version of Neil Gaimen's Coraline, this one the graphic adaptation by P. Craig Russell (978-0-06-082543-0). Good story. I was expecting creepy at points (this is Gaimen, after all), so I enjoyed it. I suspect this was, at least for me, much better than seeing the movie, since the people (at least, the ones who are really people) are draw more realistically than I've seen in the commercials for the movie.
Anyway, I got two books on inter-library loan, and one off the shelf here. The two ILL books were to see if they were work buying (or should be teen titles) based on a great core collection list from the Good Comics for Kids people.
Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (978-1-934706-44-2) is great, and is going on my "must-buy" lists. Short, sweet, and entirely age-appropriate for younger readers.
Dragon Drive, vol. 1, by Ken-ichi Saura (978-1-4215-1187-0) is a manga based on a video game (and probably an anime, but I'm not sure). I'm afraid this is the kind of thing that makes me avoid manga. It bored me. The characters did not interest me, I really don't like graphic novels where most of the story is taken up by the fighting action, and even the "mystery" part of the plot doesn't inspire me to seek out the rest and read them. On the other hand, the violence contained no obvious bloodshed (it's all fighting-by-proxy) and there weren't even any "pantie shots" that I could see (though the one adult female wore some rather tight and/or short outfits). I'll put it on the "if I have money at the end of October" list and get the first few in the series. I just hope the violence doesn't accelerate.
The off-the-shelf book was just for fun. I finally read a version of Neil Gaimen's Coraline, this one the graphic adaptation by P. Craig Russell (978-0-06-082543-0). Good story. I was expecting creepy at points (this is Gaimen, after all), so I enjoyed it. I suspect this was, at least for me, much better than seeing the movie, since the people (at least, the ones who are really people) are draw more realistically than I've seen in the commercials for the movie.
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