Johanna looks at three graphic novels about a pair of sloths with very different personalities.
Review: Primer
July 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
There’s a new superhero in the DC universe, and she gets her power from … paint? Esther tells you all about it in her review of ‘Primer.’
Review: ‘Betty and Veronica: The Bond of Friendship’
July 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Career Day at Riverdale High has Betty and Veronica contemplating their futures, and how they might fit into one another’s lives, in this delightful original graphic novel by Jamie Lee Rotante and Brittney Williams.
Review: ‘Quick and Easy Guides’ From Limerence Press
June 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Today Johanna looks at three sex education comics that take an inclusive approach and are appropriate for older teens and adults.
Review: ‘Stepping Stones’
June 24, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Comics memoirist Lucy Knisley’s successfully conquers a new genre in ‘Stepping Stones,’ her first graphic novel for kids, Protagonist Jen struggles adjusting to a new life in a new place with a new family, facing frustrations that will feel familiar to any kid…or anyone who used to be a kid.
Review: Two Trips with Mouse
June 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Johanna goes to the extremes today, with reviews of two TOON books for early readers: ‘A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse’ and the Eisner Award-nominated ‘A Trip to the Top of the Volcano with Mouse.’
Review: ‘Persona 5,’ Volumes 1-2
June 11, 2020 by 1 Comment
The popular JRPG video game gets a manga adaptation that allows non-players to enjoy the characters and story.
Review: ‘The Lost Carnival’
June 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Before he became Batman’s Boy Wonder, Dick Grayson was a circus acrobat having adventures of his own in Michael Moreci and Sas Milledge’s ‘The Lost Carnival.’
Review: Displacement
June 4, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In Kiku Hughes’ ‘Displacement,’ a teenage girl goes back in time to the internment camp where her grandmother was held. Through her eyes, we see the everyday life of the Americans who were held in the camps and the extraordinary events that occurred there.
Review: ‘Prince Freya’ Vol. 1
May 28, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In Keiko Ishihara’s new series a village girl must take the place of the dead prince to save her friends and the whole kingdom., But she quickly learns that there’s more to playing the role than cutting her hair and changing her clothes, and any mistakes could prove fatal.
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