Graphic Novels I Read, But Have Been Too Lazy To Blog About

I love to read, and graphic novels are really easy for me to burn through. Recently I have had a lot of them in my queue. Holidays such as Christmas, Valentine's Day and my birthday with in a three month span have certainly made an impact on my stack of  things I want to read. Here is a short synopsis of what I have been reading and maybe why I haven't blogged about it.

Devils Panties Volume 3 by Jennie Breeden: This is not satanic porn. It how ever is really funny and really insightful comic biography of the life of the artist and writer, Jennie Breeden. I have been following this comic for a a very long time online and when ever I can pick up a graphic novel I do. Thankfully when I was in Philly, the shop had the few that I was missing and I have been playing catch up. This comic contains a fair amount of nerd humor and a lot of heart and boat load of "What Not To Say". This is not a light read. I wouldn't normally blog about this, because it is in the middle of the series and I have read 1,2 & 5, and I haven't taken the time to talk about the other volumes I have consumed.


Flink by Doug TenNapel: I feel like I have been doing a lot of reviews on Doug TenNapels graphic novels, which is why I held off on even talking about this one. It is sort of like when you find a new favorite author and you want to crack out on it, but the rest of the world doesn't get it. Flink is an interesting story about how Bigfoot's  are better people then people are.  It might not really be that way, but considering Bigfoot's aren't trying to prove that humans exist and humans are, I think it might make them the better being. The short of the story is that a Bigfoot finds a boy in the woods and returns him to his people at the peril of his life. It is a fun read, and the black and white art is done quite well.


IZombie: UVampire by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred: This is the second book in the series and previously did a review on the first book a couple of months back. This volume focuses mainly on the vampires in the series.  In this series I find that you have to suspend you disbelief as to what you think the possibilities are, because they are going to need to stretch. The amount of back story given with each character gives you enough to care about the character. By the end of this graphic novel there is a lot of questions in the air, which is why I didn't hesitate and jumped right into volume three.

IZombie: Six Feet Under and Rising by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred:  This is the third book in the series. I was trying really hard not to give any spoilers about what is going on in this comics universe, but everything is extremely topsy turvy. This seems to be a giant monsterfest. You have good monsters, you have bad monsters, and you have brainless monsters, and they are all not trying to get along. You get a little bit of back ground on the main character as she remembers it, which helps move the story along. Right now there are so many directions that this could go in, that I am not sure where this story will end up. I know for one thing, the dead will probably remain dead, but I have to wonder if any of the live characters are going to switch to the dead team.

Dorothy and the Wizard In OZ,   a graphic novel adaptations of L. Frank Baum's Oz novels by Eric Shanower. This is the fourth book in the series, which is enough of a reason why I haven't done a review about this. Mostly because it would be a really long blog post to go over every volume in the OZ series.  Perhaps on day, when I have the time an energy to go over the ups and downs of each of the graphic novels and compare them to each of the volumes in the books series, I will, but until that time comes I enjoy the abbreviated  version of the books with the graphic novels. Most of the series very rarely centers around the Wizard, and mostly focuses on the relationships that Dorothy forms to get out of trouble. In this volume The Wizards is all charm and piglets and the concepts that are portrayed are fun, but also thought provoking. While it isn't the my favorite volume, it does retain the charm that the series is known by and is a fun read and beautiful to look at. 


Dorothy and the Road to OZ, a graphic novel adaptations of L. Frank Baum's Oz novels by Eric Shanower. This is the fifth book in the series, and probably one of my least favorite volumes in the series. It is not a bad book, and there are some really good moments, and the art is beautiful, but I felt like it took the scenic route and marveled at everything it could before it rushed on its way to the end. I am looking forward to the next book in the series and I do think that if any one is a fan of The Wizard of OZ that they should check it out.   



Those are the six graphic novels that I have completed in the last month. Most of them I would not normally talk about, because they are a part of a series. If you haven't read the first one in the series, you probably should. 

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: A Short Reveiw

      I use to read real books all the time. Now, I have excuses as to why I don't read as often as I did. Some of them are really good excuses. "I have to be up early for work." "I am tired."  "I have nothing to read." I took a good look at the lot of excuses I have been feeding myself and decided that I deserve better then the lot of rubbish that I tell myself. It doesn't matter if I have to be up early for work, I can always just read a chapter or two before bed.  I am always going to be tired. That isn't going to change, what does change is what a person does about it. I can be tired and anxious about work, or I can be tired and relaxing with a good book.  I have nothing to read is a whole pile of manure. I have a stack of books on my bed side, and they are awesome books. I know that they are going to be awesome books, because I took the time to research them and get recommends, and have been putting them on Christmas Wish Lists and Birthday Gift Lists for as long as I can remember. I know exactly what type of books they are and I am fairly confident that I will enjoy them.

  Having run out of excuses, I picked a book from the bunch and decided to start reading.  Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs was  on the top of the file and figured that it would be an excellent point to start.  The book itself is eye catching. The cover of the book ha a little girl in a crown with a face that often reminds me of my grandmother disapproving at me over something real or imagined. What a person doesn't see unless they really look at it, is that the little girl is levitating. My intrigue was up. Why did I pick this book? The only way to find out was to read it.

Making myself comfortable on the couch, tucking my legs beneath me and squashing a few pillows behind me, I dove into the book, while my husband provided that much needed background noise of video games. (You would be surprised at how unproductive I can be with no background noise, because without the noise, I am my neurotic cat. I jump at every sound I hear.) The first thing that I discovered while getting into the book is that the interesting pictures are not just on the front and back cover, but scattered through out also. The amount of pictures makes the speed of reading a lot quicker while giving the story a body and a face.

I really liked this book.  I was surprised. I don't put a lot of stock in New York Times Best Sellers, because some of it very predictable. You can flip to the end of the book and not be surprised by the ending. I have my faults, and I am human, so I get to a point in almost any book that I read, that I will flip to the back to see how it ends. Reading the last page, did nothing for me.  It did not give me a predictive look as to how everything was going to come to a climax. In fact it really gave me nothing, but a picture of people on a boat.  Reading the last page, didn't really do nothing for me, what it did was make me finish the book. In one day, in one position on the couch, while my husband sat as company, I finished the book.

I want to say that I saw the ending coming, but I didn't. The end of the book was everything and more than I expected. Part of me wanted to laugh at the silliness of me trying to figure out the ending in the middle of the book, and the other part of me want to cry at the complex of emotions that it brought me. Over all I think that it was a wonderful adventure for the mind and for the emotions. If you need a beach read, or perhaps something to get you through a few hours at the airport, I would recommend Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.