Category: Graphic Novel Reviews
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Elmer Graphic Novel Review
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2010, Slave Labor Graphics Written and Illustrated by Gerry Alanguilan Gerry Alanguilan’s Elmer requires its readers to draw upon their ability to suspend disbelief. It’s the sort of book that, if you were to put it aside and apply a minimal degree of logic to its plot, would seem ridiculous to the point of unreadable.…
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A Sickness in the Family Graphic Novel Review
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2010, Vertigo Crime Story: Denise Mina Art: Antonio Fuso, Lee Burmejo (cover) If countless books and movies are anything to go by, we do love to watch middle classed families fall apart. Denise Mina’s A Sickness in the Family, the latest in DC’s Vertigo Crime imprint, is a gruesome study of one such affluent and…
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Captain Caned Graphic Novel Review
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2010, Four Bananas Written & illustrated by Jim Morris As unfashionable as it may be to admit this, I’ve never felt the need to get high. Perhaps my complacency with a sober mind has something to do with my overabundant imagination. While others need alcohol or narcotics to free them from bland reality, I’ve always…
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The Silence Graphic Novel Review
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2009, Allen & Unwin Written & illustrated by Bruce Mutard After discovering a mesmerising painting with no name attached to it, capitalist art dealer Choosy McBride and her idealistic boyfriend Dmitri journey to Northern Queensland, where their quest for the artist provides frustration and revelation in equal measure. Bruce Mutard’s tale of a couple’s infatuation…
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Peaceful Warrior: The Graphic Novel Review
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2010, published by HJ Kramer & New World Library Story: Dan Millman Art: Andrew Winegarner Peaceful Warrior: The Graphic Novel is an adaptation of Dan Millman’s 1980 bestseller Way of the Peaceful Warrior. A spiritual coming of age drama with an apparent Carlos Castaneda influence, it’s evidently a beloved book (as a quick search online…
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Kill Shakespeare Vol. 1 TPB Review
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2010, IDW Story: Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col Art: Andy Belanger Colours: Ian Herring Could any other scribe warrant such a passionate yet divisive response upon the mere utterance of his surname? For every uncultured individual who sees Shakespeare’s plays as the crux of a painful childhood, there seems to be an academically inclined counterpart…
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Shaun of the Dead Graphic Novel Review
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2010, Titan Books Adapted by: Chris Ryall Art: Zach Howard, Sean Murphy Colours: Thompson Knox It’s time to hit the Winchester once more with the Shaun of the Dead comic adaptation, originally published by IDW in 2005 and brought to British shores a half-decade later by Titan Books. Not that I’m complaining. I haven’t seen…
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation Review
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2010, Bloomsbury Adapted, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast Dante Alighieri’s epic poem has been reinvented, referenced and recycled so many times over the years that most people will have a good idea of what Dante’s passage through hell, purgatory and paradise entails whether they’ve read it or not. But few iterations are as downright fun as…