Graphic Novel Review – The Runaways

At first I was not too attracted toward this story. It had too much of a manga feel to it, and I don’t care for that particular style. The only thing that kept my interest was the writer, whom I have reviewed a few times. Bryan K. Vaughan, together with Adrian Alphona, got this story of Runaways going for Marvel Comics.

Graphic Novel Review – The Watchmen

The graphic novel world has a variety of subjects for one to read.  Most of them are easy reads that combine a quick story with some nice graphics.  Sometimes what you get to read is so complex yet well structured that it hits you like a ton of bricks.  That was my experience with The Watchmen.  Yes, I know I’m twenty years late, and there are probably a ton of reviews about how marvelous it is.  Still, as a new person entering the graphic novel world, I feel compelled to share what I’ve absorbed from this work.

Graphic Novel Review – The Hood

After having read a few dozen graphic novels this past year, I’ve started to track previous works of the writers I’ve liked so far.  That’s how I came across The Hood.  Written by the creator of Y: The Last Man, Bryan K. Vaughan, this story brings us the perspective of a villain and his inner demons and who he really is; yet that might be more rethorical than anything else.

Graphic Novel Review – Pride Of Baghdad

As I’ve explained before, I don’t consider myself a conoceur of graphic novels, being that I’ve only been reading them on a regular basis for less than a year.  Yet, I have been lucky enough to get a good vibe from briefs and summaries of the stories and so far, most of my selections have been good ones.  The latest one I’ve read, was one created by Bryan K Vaughan, the guy that made Y: The Last Man.  That was good enough for me to give it a try.  So I bought Pride of Baghdad, without having a clue what it was about. 

Graphic Novel Review – Various Zombie Stories

As you probably have noticed, most of my reviews for graphic novels are for stories that involved zombies.  I will admit its a guilty pleasure of mine.  Among the stories I’ve reviewed are Dead Eyes Open, The Damned and most importantly my all time favorite, The Walking Dead.  Aside from those stories, there are many others that I’ve read during the past few weeks that although interesting, I did not feel I should dedicates a whole review for each one.

Graphic Novel Review – The Damned: Vol.1 Three Days Dead

I guess I just keep finding twist to the typical zombie story.  This book has a few twists of its own.  The Damned takes us thru the life death of Eddie, a tough guy, working for the mafia during the Prohibition Era.  Back when double crossing somebody or just looking like you might pull a double cross on someone with power meant only one thing…you sleep with the fishes, or the cement or the worms, ya follow?

Graphic Novel Review – Dead Eyes Open

What started out as a purchase for another zombie book, turned out to be something quite different from my expectations.  Dead Eyes Open, is a complex book that brings the reader an opportunity to see society thru the eyes of the most unusual of its members…the dead.

Graphic Novel Review – The Invisibles

Complex and Intense.  These are the best words to describe this graphic novel.  One of the best and most original works to come out of the nineties, The Invisibles, by Grant Morrison is a graphic novel with much excitement, pop magick, rebellion, universally lawless and most importantly it tends to expand your imagination and the limits of what you tend to believe.

Graphic Novel Review – The Walking Dead

This has been without a doubt, the most captivating graphic novel I’ve read in a long time (which isn’t that long of a time but still stick with me…it’s good).  The Walking Dead takes an approach to zombies that goes hand in hand with what regular fans enjoy the most: ongoing carnage, suspense and drama and yes of course…zombies.  But it also deals with human emotions and the survival instinct dormant in all of us (well must of us). 

Graphic Novel Review – Chronicles of Wormwood

This is another one of the graphic novels I’ve come accross lately.  I’m quite picky regarding what I read (well that’s not completely true…not so long ago I read  a few of The Simpsons Comics), but nevertheless, this story seemed very unorthodox and quite pushy in religious concepts which tends to be my favorite kind of reading material lately.  Wormwood brings us a very unusual story of friendship and family issues in a supernatural kind of way.