26.Dec.2009 Bayou by Jeremy Love (Vol 1)
Bayou is an online comic by Jeremy Love, which first appeared at Zuda Comics, and later out in print as the first printed book format work to be released by the online website. The story is a mixed of fantasy and reality, reality which is based on the oppressed era for Black people (1930s America). [...]
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 [...]
07.Nov.2009 American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
American Born Chinese is a graphic novel comprised of three interrelated stories: an American-born Chinese boy who tries to fit in at his school, the legendary Monkey King, and an American boy who is extremely embarrassed by his visiting cousin who fits into the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype. The stories come together at the end [...]
12.Sep.2009 Kabuki: The Metamorphosis by David Mack
I first heard of Kabuki from Carl’s blog and picked it up from the library not long ago (a review that makes me run to the library to get a copy is sure one hell of a great review). Somehow my library had only Kabuki: The Metamorphosis, which after halfway reading I found out was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
