Max Axiom STEM Adventures series

Max Axiom, “super scientist,” stars in his 9th and 10th adventures, investigating the science behind drones and robots. Each book has a brief introduction of the framing plot and then consists of Max Axiom interviewing various scientists and technicians and sometimes...

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Writing about adaptations, whether from book to movie or vice versa, is always tricky business. Can you judge a work solely in a single medium or should you review it against the another medium? Can you judge the medium solely on its own merits or will your opinion be...

Clem Hetherington and the Ironwood Race, vol. 1

The story opens dramatically with a teenager and android robot in a high-stakes race in the desert. Why are they there and what are they doing? Well, it’s a long story… The teenager turns out to be one Clem (Clementine) Hetherington and the robot is her android...

Classic Fiction series

Capstone Publishing has released six new books in their classic fiction graphic novel series. Each book is a comic retelling of classic adventure stories, retold and illustrated by talented people. They are a great addition to any library collection due to the...

Anne of Green Gables

Two aging siblings. A misplaced orphan. One sleepy Canadian town that will never be the same. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert finally came to the decision that they needed help. The two of them simply cannot handle all the work that their farm, Green Gables, requires....

Marco Polo: Dangers and Visions

Marco Tabilio’s dreamy depiction of Marco Polo recording his famous narrative Il Milione, also referred to as The Travels of Marco Polo and The Book of the Marvels of the World, begins with Marco Polo relating his many adventures to fellow prisoner Rustichello while...

Friends with Boys

Friends with Boys begins with Maggie, our protagonist, facing not only her first day at high school, but her first day of school ever. Maggie and her three older brothers have been home-schooled by their mother until they were old enough for the public high school....

The Arrival

Revisiting this wordless and timeless graphic novel demonstrates to me just how powerful and impactful storytelling can be, regardless of the medium of the telling. The Arrival was principally the first time many readers in the United States had been introduced to...

Superman, vol. 3: Multiplicity

As was the case with Trials of The Super Son, Multiplicity—the third volume of Superman set in the DC Comics’ Rebirth reality—is an anthology of Superman stories rather than a single saga. Once again written by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason, this volume is...