Today I review Super Mutant Magic Academy AND This One Summer, which are both great graphic novels for different reasons.
Here are the things I referenced in the video: Continue reading “Review Day Tuesday: The Tamaki’s Graphic Novels”
7 Comic Reviews in 5 Minutes or Less
That’s right: Today’s Review Day Tuesday has 7 reviews in less than 5 minutes!
The comics I talk about are the first issues of the following series’…
The Believer
Frankenstein For Mayor
Bizarro (DC Comics)
Empire Comics
The Wicked + The Divine
Howard the Duck (Marvel Comics)
Wytches
Pretty Deadly
Special thanks to SoundBible.com for the sound effect at the beginning. I’m going to make that my intro (and you can’t stop me).
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Review Day Tuesday: In Real Life
It’s another Review Day Tuesday video blog. Wheee!
In today’s review, I talk about In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang, and its take on economics and its effects on gamers.
If you’re interested in reading more things by Cory Doctorow, check out his Boing Boing page, and if you want to read more work by Jen Wang, read Koko Be Good and check out her website.
Let me know in the comments if you liked the review or, even better, what your thoughts were on the book!
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Review Day Tuesday… in Video!
Today I want to try something new.
“What?”
I’ll tell you.
I’m reviewing THREE new comics in a new format: as a vlog!
Now you can click the video below and watch my new reviews:
The links to these comics I talk about are listed below:
Ranger Pugsly’s Camp for Adventurous Youth AND The Good, The Bad and the Pugsly by Jonathon Wallach.
Taken Literally by Joshua Chappell. (This one may not be online).
What did you think of the video? Want me to do more Review Day Tuesdays like this? Leave a comment below and let me know.
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Review Day Tuesday: Game Boss: The Final Form
Game Boss: The Final Form is an anthology I picked up at (surprise) Swarm Con.
Now, despite the title, not all of the stories within the anthology deal with video games. That may come as a surprise to you, because it sure surprised me.
As I read this, it occured to me that all of the stories, while not always dealing with video games, DID deal with a common theme: Transformation of the self, usually through a struggle, surprise, or sacrifice.
And to be fair…this anthology handles these themes very, very well.
There are too many stories for me to break this review down to review all of them, like I did with SIX. However, all the stories stand out for a variety of reasons.
The ones that stood out to me the most were “Flesh” by Lea Faske (pictured above), “No Parking” by Mad Rupert, and the first story that appears in the anthology, “Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow” by Ngozi Ukazu (fyi, she is the sweetest and coolest lady). These ones have the strongest art as well as the most interesting takes on the idea of “transformation,” ranging from straightforward shape shifting to transforming your world view to an emotional transformation through the sacrifice of another person.
As for the art, that’s also varied. The art styles range from the hyper realism of Yunfan Zhou to the bold-lined, Steven Universe-esque cartooning in “The Quest” by Gerardo Alba. If you want some fantastic visual variety in your comics anthology, this is the volume that will satisfy you.
Have you read this anthology? What did you think about it? Let me know in the comments!
Thank you for reading.
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