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Propels the plot forward significantly plus fantastic ending! The Walking Dead graphic novels must be read in order and to summarize any part of this plot will be SPOILERS for the previous volumes. So reader beware! Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown… Rick decided, after consulting with Negan,Continue Reading

Heathen is a coming out story interwoven with Norse mythology. Heathen tells the story of Aydis, a Viking young woman who can fight as well as any male warrior. After kissing a girl (and liking it), her father is forced by the tribe’s elders to punish her. Aydis must marryContinue Reading

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Interesting plot but illustrations are not easy to interpret.   This is a graphic novel about a zombie apocalypse. I have read many books with this topic and 25 volumes of The Walking Dead graphic novels previously so I wasn’t expecting much innovation. However, this book’s plot surprised me withContinue Reading

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Truly horrifying! Manticore is set inside the worst unit of a maximum security prison. Fish is the newest prisoner until a transfer from Gitmo arrives. Then the bodies start piling up. Why are the prisoners given experimental, and possibly psychotropic, drugs? Does that explain the deaths? This is a goodContinue Reading

Sweet graphic novel showcasing the Louvre’s acquisition process Fabien, a Louvre security guard, meets his girlfriend’s family for the first time. The family has an ancestor’s painting in their attic that they want Fabien to evaluate. What happens to the painting is the plot of this graphic novel. I reallyContinue Reading

Beautiful Illustrations with an Unusual Plot The world has gone crazy in this well plotted beautifully illustrated graphic novel. Suddenly after the Great Divide, one human touching another kills one of them. The killed live on in the brain of the killer as “riders”. Once a rider is in residence,Continue Reading

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Bill may be a supercilious a88hole but he is also funny! I was prepared to dislike this book because I’ve read many books based on Internet memes that do not translate well to a book format.  I think even Bill’s platitudes would be better one per day rather than allContinue Reading

Laugh-out-loud funny book! The book is the story of the author’s two dogs pictured as two middle age men. It doesn’t sound funny but it is totally hilarious!  I’m sure the people at work were wondering why I was first giggling and then laughing out loud at some of theContinue Reading

The series really picks up with this volume as it has much more plot development than the last book. Shira’s backstory is explored. Ganya remembers more of his past. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.Continue Reading

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An Interesting Story with Pretty Artwork The plot of this manga is completely different from most manga. An innocent 14-year-old boy is wrongly found guilty of the mass murder of his friends and thrown into prison. The prison is also a amusement park, where the prisoner’s compete for cp toContinue Reading