Hellboy in Hell, Library Edition by Mike Mignola, art by Mike Mignola Dark Horse, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-50670-363-3 Available: Hardcover Hellboy in Hell, Library Edition contains storylines originally collected in the trade paperbacks The Descent and The Death Card, and takes place after The Storm and the Fury. In the opening chapter, we witness Hellboy’s liberation from an abyss by Sir Edward Gray, followed […]
Category: angels/demons
Anime Crash Course: Inuyasha
April 1, 2018Inuyasha is one of the essential anime series. It certainly is the one that got me into the genre. Inuyasha is about a teenage girl, Kagome, who discovers she’s the reincarnation of a powerful priestess when a demon attacks her ad she falls through an old well at a shrine and ends up in the […]
Review: Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
May 31, 2016Alexis, a budding photographer and anti-popular-kids activist, lives in the oldest house in town. Like all old houses, this one has a long and strange history, and some very odd things begin to happen after a photo shoot in the backyard. Her younger sister, thirteen year old Kasey, starts behaving very strangely: her eyes flash […]
Review: Demon Queen by Richard Lewis
May 19, 2016Jesse has grown up in the foster care system, never knowing his real parents. Unfairly seized by Homeland Security, he is released to the Mindells, a foster family living in the town of Longview. As Jesse begins to settle into his new community, Honor Clarke moves to town, dealing with the death of her father […]
Review: Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo
April 28, 2016Candlewick Press, 2006 ISBN: 9780763632069 Available: New High school English teachers will cheer to see this accessible, visually attractive retelling of Beowulf by the British Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. The language used in translations and retellings is often a barrier preventing teens from experiencing the impact of the dramatic battles between heroes and monsters. While […]
Review: Hexed by Michael Alan Nelson and Emma Rios
May 21, 2015The cover chatter boasts this is ″the new Buffy″ to which I say meh. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely loved this graphic novel, from ″Lucifer″ herself, to the bold colors and art. But this isn’t Buffy. For one Lucifer is a thief, mainly she steals from demons, and often she steals things back for […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz
May 7, 2015by Dan Brereton, Hector Gomez and Sandu Florea The Dust Waltz is the first BtVS graphic novel, set very early in the series, in the early high school years. It sees Buffy and the gang, plus some, trying to save Sunnydale from a feud between two ancient sisters. In their tradition the sisters have brought […]
Review: Mercy by Rebecca Lim
October 10, 2014Mercy is the first book in a new paranormal romance series, and the name of the narrator of the story. At first, one is uncertain who or what Mercy is, however, it may well be that Mercy is either an angel or a fallen angel. Either way, she travels from person to person, occupying their bodies […]