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Graphic Novel Review: Primer
The Details Title: PrimerAuthors: Jennifer Muro, Thomas KrajewskiIllustrator: Gretel LuskyPublisher (Date): DC Comics (June 23, 2020)Media Type: Paperback; 160 pages Find it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | IndieBound Primer introduces a brand-new superhero with a colorful array of superpowers to explore. Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. Her father is a known criminal who once used Ashley to help him elude justice, and in his attempt to escape, a life was taken. He now sits in federal prison, but still casts a shadow over Ashley’s life. In the meantime, Ashley has bounced from foster…
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Comic Book Haul (2/22/17)
Who loves comic book hauls? *** Depending on your level of obsession with comics, you may or may not know that Wednesday is also known as #NCBD or NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! Huzzah! It’s the day when most comics release their new issues, and when people like me attack their local comic book stores and Comixology with grabby little hands. *mimics pushing people out the way to snag things* Yeah, it’s like that. ANYWAY…. I thought I’d start a new feature whenever I have a new comic haul. Which, to be honest, is not every week anymore. Only because I…
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Book Review: League of Somebodies
Media Type: Print Book Title: League of Somebodies Author: Samuel Sattin Publisher: Dark Coast Press Pages: Paperback; 400 Release Date: April 9, 2013 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————————— Genre: Comic Fantasy HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who don’t mind a lot of prose and dense vocabulary. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Lenard Sikophsky’s father has been feeding him plutonium since the age of six in the hopes of making him the world’s first bona fide superhero. First, he must pass the unusual tests of manhood locked in the centuries old…
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Book Review: Memento Nora
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Memento Nora Author: Angie Smibert Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother,…
