07.Feb.2010 Bone: Treasure Hunters and Crown of Horns (Last 2 Volumes)
Like all good adventure story, Bone is ended with a great battle between good and evil ala The Lord of the Rings (not that I’ve read or watched LOTR). Bone series has been such a fun journey and I’m sad that it has ended, though the ending is pretty open to possibility of a sequel. [...]
12.Dec.2009 Bone: Old Man’s Cave and Ghost Circles
The holiday time is coming closer and I find myself just want to indulge in light reading. I came back from the library last week with heaps of graphic novels. I heard a couple of times before how people who never read comics can get confused about where to look on the pages, since there [...]
24.Oct.2009 Wicked by Gregory Maguire and the Musical!
Wicked is an imagined tale by Gregory Maguire about the world of Oz before Dorothy came, which mainly focuses on the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West, or who we know of in Wicked as Elphaba, Elphie. Born green to a very devoted priest and a wild mother, her life is [...]
29.Jul.2009 Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
In this second volume of Fables, Snow White and her sister Red Rose goes to visit Animal Farm, a place where all the fables that don’t pass as humans live. It’s interesting to see all the non-human creatures take the stage this time, but I didn’t get how some of them live there, like the [...]
21.Jun.2009 The Sandman Vol 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
Gory. Gruesome. Eerie. Made me sick to my stomach.
I know now why Neil Gaiman no longer writes such sick stories. Because it’s going to scare his kids to death. (If they can first sneak in to get the book and understand the perversity.)
Having said that, I kept reading. Perhaps I do like sick stories once [...]
13.Jun.2009 The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Another lovely book from Shaun Tan.
The Arrival has no words, it’s all pictures (must be the easiest book to translate). And I almost have no words to describe it, because it’s so overwhelmingly good. The drawings, the imagination, it’s so out of this world that you feel you are transported to this magical majestic place.
Amazing [...]
05.Jun.2009 Bone Vol 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith
I’ve been talking about Bone for the last 3 posts now. But no more for a while, I promise. This is the last Bone that I borrowed from the library and I’m gonna have to wait a while to get my hands on the next books in the series. *sigh*
It’s for the better. Before I [...]
04.Jun.2009 Bone Vol 4: The Dragonslayer by Jeff Smith
This volume of Bone is more dark and gloomy. Thorn is very angry at Gran’ma Ben for lying to her all this time then they get separated. Thorn and Fone get to the village, only to find that Phoney Bone has taken control of the village (how stupid the village people can be?).
Phoney Bone annoyed [...]
03.Jun.2009 Bone Vol 3: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith
I read my first Bone (Out from Boneville) sometime last year, which I gave a more lengthy review. I didn’t review the 2nd one (The Great Cow Race), because I wasn’t sure how to review a series without giving spoilers. But heck, I’ll review this one and the next ones (I’m up to Vol 5 [...]
21.May.2009 Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Tales from Outer Suburbia is a collection of short stories. Some very short (a page or two), some a bit longer. And how fantastic they are! I love love love these stories! Or should I say the illustrations. I’m not sure which I like more: the artwork or the stories. They’re both amazing. I often [...]
