It’s a time-travelling head trip that allows the graphic novel to jump from that back alley to a Revolutionary War cabin and back again within a three page span. He then quickly sees himself in the back seat of the car that J.F.K. was assassinated in, on the battlefield of an Native American massacre, the courthouse steps of a foreclosure, meets an imposter Uncle Sam and encounters a glimpse of a fading Britannia. The post Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition, a searing, timeless graphic novel appeared first on Daddy Mojo ..read more

Those are the types of things that we see in Exoplanets. This is an illustrated look into deep space, the situations needed for things to exist, their climates, how we’d discover them and why these far off entities are important. It’s a very effective illustrated book because it quickly plants the curiosity and has the content to answer the questions in a simple manner that’s not intimidating. Exoplanets is broken up into two parts which each part having four chapters covering specific things about their main part. It’s an illustrated book that much smarter than most of the adults reading it ..read more

Welcome to Camp Snoopy is not a typical book. It is chapter-driven, but the chapters are narrative in the true sense of the word. Instead of building on certain things that happened in camp and evolving into a climax, they simply show situations that happen in a typical summer camp and how the Peanuts gang deals with them. The camp has awards, sings songs around the campfire, gets letters from home, makes new friends, gets homesick, and has a new group of people that experience these things every week. The post Welcome to Camp Snoopy is Peanuts lit for the Apple TV+ and more appeared first on ..read more

Horror-based mglit is not based in reality and nobody expects their plot to adhere to things that could really happen. The blurbs on the back of Dead Girls Walking harken the book to an Evil Dead or Fear Street vibe. However, both of those would be a false flag and instead I would put the book in the venn diagram of black lesbians who curse a lot and want to read horror that doesn’t actually burn with brutality or blood until the final sixth act. Those same folks also want the preceding five acts to be loaded with teen drama, lots of F bombs and tedious scenes of teens pretending to be holding ..read more

Therein lays the story, but anyone who knows even a little bit about their backyard is that it’s not a simple one. There are different types of worms, those worms have life cycles, and they have predators. The forest is rich with different life forms, ants have their own kingdom, and the trees provide a canopy and canvas for dozens of birds and their necessities. For example, do you know the difference between down, contour and flight feathers? Can you identify over a dozen vegetables from the garden just by seeing a cross section of them while they’re in the ground? I missed four of them, it ..read more

You think that you’re too cool, or old to care about Charlie Brown and his river raft race, but you’ll be hopelessly sucked into its vortex of entertainment. You know that little yellow bird can’t sleep on the lines that support the tent that Snoopy is sleeping in, but you’ll grin when you see them doing it. As the birds get in their sleeping bags and the fire is dying down you know that they’re scared, and will probably get in the same one as Snoopy. You know all of this. You might have seen all of this, but that’s why it’s classic entertainment. Your six-year-old child will read it. You’ll p ..read more

The first two chapters are 25 pages each. Each of those chapters is broken in half by a black bat. Those young readers who loved the first book won’t bat an eye about this. However, the page count will put off any potential reluctant readers who want a vampire-centric, mglit story. A long chapter length is like garlic to those types of readers. The good news is that this series found its groove (or I finally discovered it), but to grow that audience to the size that a book like this deserves, it will need to satisfy those reluctant readers by deciding on cold stopping points for each chapter ..read more

One of the biggest disarming factors about Olivetti for us, and probably most readers, is the book’s presentation. The chapters vary from their perspective and are named according to who is experiencing that specific part of the story. Olivetti is the typewriter and Ernest is the son of Beatrice, the lady who has used the typewriter the most. Her children have used the typewriter as they were growing up, with each one having various degrees of success with it. Olivetti knows these people and their basic characteristics, but has kept their thoughts and processes to itself. The post Olivetti, mg ..read more

As there were more than 43,000 people at MomoCon this year I did not see that acquaitance. Our children were locked into video games this year. They normally like to play them, but this year that’s pretty much all they wanted to do, but they branched out and tried all of them. These are the big console games that I grew up with, the drum-pounding, state-of-the-art new video games from Japan and the claw machines that defy gravity and never pay out until they do. We’ve always played the classics. This time it was their desire to attempt the machines that usually had the longer lines. They didn ..read more

The classic stories and bad guys are all in the book. Age of Ultron, Infinity, Secret Invasion, Avengers vs. X-Men and so many more are highlighted. The text succinctly sets up what led to the tumultuous events, which Avengers engaged in the battle and how it plays into their greater world. This also plays into the strength of graphic novels and the fact that they helped parlay this medium, and manga to an extent, to a much larger audience. Graphic novels and collected editions of manga allow the stories to be consumed easier. The quality of the stories, depth of the characters and brilliance ..read more