Tank Girl: The Gifting
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| Author | Brian Azzarello |
| ISBN | 1595823581 |
1 1/2 stars. A disappointment in multiple ways. The entries are so brief that the classic noir elements aren't given room to develop or to surprise. These are more vignettes than stories, and only a few have something fresh or original to offer.
A collection of noir by definition will exploit...
Despite his "fantastically glossy and luxuriant beard," AND, his unequalled swaggering skills, the Pirate Captain has lost the coveted Pirate of the Year Award again . . . that makes almost as many times as Susan Lucci lost out on the Daytime Emmy. Perhaps it's time to consider a career move. Let's see...
| Author | J.P. Martin |
| ISBN | 1590172396 |
If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent...
| Author | G. Xavier Robillard |
| ISBN | 0061650684 |
Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!
Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it—but he couldn't fend off middle management.
The Superhero lifestyle is...
| Author | Kevin Smith |
| ISBN | 0936211784 |
Ah. A must have for anyone who's all about Kev and the View Askewniverse. Or whatever.
It's nice to see tie-ins that you otherwise wouldn't, have characters from one movie reference things that happened in a different one... and of course, to see Randal deal with porn crazy Elves helping an overburdened...
| Author | Gail Simone |
| ISBN | 1401215165 |
Tranquility is like any other small town in America, except for one fundamental difference--it's the town where super-powered beings go in order to retire and raise families. From the Golden Age to the Modern Age, heroes and villains alike reside in Tranquility and it creates a unique blend of personalities...
From the creation of the earth to the ultimate showdown between the forces of good and evil, this is the greatest story every told...as you've never seen it before.
A graphic novel adaptation of the Holy Bible, The Manga Bible tells the story of God's relationship with His people, from the creation...
| Author | Van Jensen |
| ISBN | 1593621760 |
One of the best things about my job is when my boss wants me to read and write a review about a certain book that I never intended to read but thoroughly enjoyed. (Let me tell you, I have read some stiiiiiinkers!!) Anyways, I was minding my own business, surfing the web and reading anything besides the stack...
| Author | Tim Sale |
| ISBN | 1401217052 |
This stunning hardcover collects the amazing online comics based on the smash-hit, Emmy Award-nominated NBC show HEROES!
This volume -- featuring a cover by comics legend Alex Ross -- also includes an introduction by Masi Oka (Hiro), all 34 chapters of Season One, and Tim Sale's artwork as...
| Author | Ross Collins |
| ISBN | 0439901006 |
It's off to ancient Greece for a split-your-side funny take on the politics of junior-high popularity.
In ancient Greece lived a little girl called Medusa Jones. Medusa was a Gorgon, but apart from that, pretty normal. So she has snakes for hair instead of gorgeous blond ringlets like Cassandra....
| Author | Peter Milligan |
| ISBN | 1840234946 |
I enjoyed Tank Girl: The Odyssey immensely. That's all I can really say for certain of this very weird, very fragmented, comic reading... experience. It is an experience. A ride. A journey. An odyssey!
If I had to pin down a core, recurring element of this wildly fluctuating spectacle of a book,...
| Author | Alan Grant |
| ISBN | 1840237252 |
After watching the movie, I had to read the graphic novels, but unfortunate for me, even at age 16, I didn't know how bloody expensive graphic novels were! So I bought the only "Tank Girl" on the shelf at my local comic book store. $20. Are you serious? ..yes
Anyway, upon buying the book, I felt stupid...
| Author | Stéphane Melchior-Durand |
Débarquée à la frontière du Grand Nord flanquée d'une horde de Gitans, Lyra compte bien sauver son ami Roger des Enfourneurs et retrouver son père, Lord Asriel. Un bataillon de fabuleuses sorcières, un pilote d'aéronef et surtout Iorek Byrnison, le terrible ours en armure, font route avec...
| Author | Robert Crumb |
| ISBN | 1840727160 |
The R. Crumb Handbook is a brand new take on the life, trials and ideas of one of the most influential cartoonists of the last 40 years. Wry, self-deprecating, and candid, this is an exceptionally revealing and unexpectedly moving visual biography. Crumb is thoughtful and enlightening, with insights...
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 8496415201 |
This review is a more positive one than mine: http://comicsalternative.com/episode-...
and in it I am reminded that in 2002 this story, Grip, was released in five separate color issues and told that a four page intro was added to give you some "explanation" or back story for the tale.
Grip...
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 1401213499 |
This is another Justice League #1, so it’s yet another re-launch of the group.
Remember when an issue #1 meant something? Nostalgia and Ka-ching?
I do.
Vaguely.
The big three (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) are trying to come up with the brand spanking new roster...
GoGo Monster has become a reference buoy in my life. When I am adrift (and I am often adrift, sometimes pleasantly sometimes harrowingly) and I need to catch some sight or sign of home, some home lived only ever within my skin, some look-back to a complex of early feelings - feelings of awkwardness and alienation,...
| Author | Jen Malone |
| ISBN | 1481486608 |
Love Actually meets Adventures in Babysitting in this hilarious novel written by seven authors about seven classmates who are preparing for a crazy night at their middle school dance.
Lynnfield Middle School is prepped and ready for a dance to remember, including an awesome performance...
| Author | Anne Fleming |
| ISBN | 1554989167 |
When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building.
Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be?
As Kid soon discovers, a goat...
| Author | Dave McKean |
| ISBN | 0964206951 |
Rediscover Dave McKean's lost masterpiece! Pictures That Tick is a collection of McKean's groundbreaking short comics stories from the 1990s and early 2000s. A true iconoclast, McKean mixes illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and digital art for a comics experience unlike any other....
| Author | Art Baltazar |
| ISBN | 1616554142 |
This one makes perfect sense. Marvel have been doing their Skottie Young-drawn Marvel baby variant covers to enormous success and I’d go so far as say Young’s AVX parody, A-Babies Vs X-Babies, was better than the real thing. Maybe this is a Japanese influenced move? I don’t know. Either way, having...
| Author | Matthew Loux |
| ISBN | 1596438495 |
The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these prestigious summer jobs. And as for the applicant pool . . . well, these kids come from all over history.
When Delia finds herself working at the Time Museum, the last thing...
