Graphic Novel Review: Deadpool: World’s Greatest: Civil War II

*Covers Issues #14-19 of Deadpool: World’s Greatest comics. ISBN: 978-1-302-90148-6* Deadpool has been trying to get his life together, and it’s kind of worked. He runs a business, the Mercs for Money. He has a wife. He has a kid. He’s somehow managed to become an Avenger. But balance is not something that Deadpool is […]

Graphic Novel Review: Just Beyond: Monstrosity by R. L. Stine, illustrations by Irene Flores, inks by Joana Lafuente

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.**    BOOM! Studios, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781684156979 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comixology  (Bookshop.org |  Amazon.com )   Ruthie and Ezra Dillon’s father Matthew and uncle Frankie have purchased the old Hollywood movie studio, Monstrosity, known for the best horror flicks of the 1950s. Matthew’s dream is to resurrect the defunct studio and produce […]

Book Review: The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear, Volume 1 edited by Daniel Chabon

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Dark Horse Comics, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781506721200 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org ) Dark Horse’s reprints of EC Comics’ The Haunt of Fear allows readers who have never been exposed to these great comics experience horror comics from the 1950s which were originally published between May 1950 and April 1951. Volume one collects The […]

Graphic Novel Review: Blackest Night written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis

**Reposted from the ML Archives**   While Marvel Comics was the first to take advantage of zombies’ growing popularity by zombifying some of their most beloved heroes in Marvel Zombies, DC has now joined the fetid flesh party with Blackest Night.  Unlike Marvel Zombies, in which Marvel lets the action take place outside the normal settings of the Marvel universe, […]

Graphic Novel Review: Dusk Vol. 1 by David Doub

**Cross posted from the ML Archives** David Doub, 2009 ISBN:  978-0-578-01436-4 Available:  New     Dusk is David Doub’s first graphic novel.  The book has four chapters.  The first chapter jumps into the story without providing much background, but the reader easily picks up that Eve is the willing servant to Vampire Lord Ash, and that the two […]

Graphic Novel Review: High Moon v1 Bullet Holes and Bite Marks by David Gallaher

**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Zuda Comics, 2009 ISBN: 9781401224622 Available: New      High Moon presents an intriguing mix of horror and western. High Noon started out as a webcomic at the Zuda Comics site and won a competition where the viewers of the site voted for their favorite comic.  The premise is fairly straightforward. Cole, a criminal who […]

Graphic Novel Review: Hollow-Eyed Mary by Andre Duza

**Cross posted from the ML vault.** Devil’s Due, 2009 ISBN: 9781934692585 Available: New   One hundred percent rage and violence, Hollow-Eyed Mary is a brutal, vivid tale of a woman wronged and killed, and back for revenge. Raised by a twisted doomsday cult, Mary is after more than revenge. She wants to use the end of the […]

Graphic Novel Review: Deadpool vs Sabretooth

ISBN: 9780785196198 Deadpool has found success, both in our world and in the comic world. At this point he runs his own merc crew, and is a legit Avenger. While I appreciate more serious toned comics and reflections of real world issues through super powered storytelling, the Deadpool comics are treasures (IMHO) for embracing the […]

Graphic Novel Review: Zombie Tales Vol. 1 by Andrew Cosby, John Rogers, Keith Giffen, Michael Alan Nelson, and Johanna Stokes

BOOM! Studios, 2007 ISBN: 1934506028 Available: New and Used     Zombie Tales is a full color collection of zombie stories.  The authors are a collection of comic book and television writers who take a unique approach and fresh look at the zombie genre.  The stories range from the humorous to the horrific, and some are even touching. […]

Graphic Novel Review: American Cult edited by Robyn Chapman

**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Silver Sprocket, 2021 ISBN-13: 978-194550963 Available: Paperback (  Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) American Cult is a graphic history of American religious cults dating from colonial America to the present. According to editor Robyn Chapman, the eighteen pieces in American Cult turn a critical eye to the cults and their behavior, but recognize the very human faces that entered […]