My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1

by | Nov 30, 2018

In My Brother’s Husband, writer and artist Gengoroh Tagame takes a heartfelt look at what it means to be a family and gay in Japan. After sending his young daughter Kana off to elementary school, divorced stay-at-home dad Yaichi is surprised to find on his suburban...

Death Be Damned

by | Nov 29, 2018

Wyoming, 1873. Miranda Coler wakes, submerged in the creek, her body buzzing with flies. She stumbles to her house near the creek, to find her home in disarray and her husband and daughter dead inside. After burying their bodies, she rides to South Pass City, vowing...

Renegade: Martin Luther, the Graphic Biography

by | Nov 28, 2018

Graphic memoirs are a great way to relay historical information to audiences who may never pick up a giant prose biography. Renegade: Martin Luther, the Graphic Biography takes a deep dive into the life of Martin Luther, the instigator of the Protestant Reformation in...

Mech Cadet Yu, vols. 1-3

by | Nov 27, 2018

Mech Cadet Yu, from writer Greg Pak and illustrator Takeshi Miyazawa, is a love letter to mecha action series. Hotshot pilots control machines of war under orders from more mature commanding officers. Gundam, Voltron, Pacific Rim, and Macross fans, take note of this...

The Dam Keeper, vol. 2: World Without Darkness

by | Nov 26, 2018

Picking up immediately after the events of the first part, The Dam Keeper: World Without Darkness opens with Pig, Fox, and Hippo entering a new town they didn’t know existed. With their new friend Van, the three struggle to find their way home in time to warn their...

Alpha: Abidjan to Paris

by | Nov 23, 2018

When I heard Barroux, the illustrator of Alpha: Abidjan to Paris, talk at the American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference in July 2018, he explained why he wanted to bring the story of Alpha to life. He’d met a man who emigrated from Africa to France and...

James Bond 007: Case Files, vol. 1

by | Nov 22, 2018

I love espionage fiction, but I almost always hesitate before I pick up anything James Bond related. The original novels are tinged with some pretty blatant racist and sexist overtones, and most of the movies aren’t much better, in my opinion. That being said, I do...

About Betty’s Boob

by | Nov 21, 2018

Scene 1: A lone crab crawls against a black backdrop. Scene 2: It is joined by several more crabs. Scene 3-6: They crawl towards a naked, sleeping woman while her boyfriend sleeps next to her. They congregate closer and closer towards her left breast, ultimately...

Reborn, vol. 1

by | Nov 20, 2018

One existential question has haunted humans since time immemorial: Is there life after death? If there is life after death, what does that life look like? How do we get there? Does what we do in this life affect our next life? Reborn by Mark Millar and Greg Capullo...

Dark Fang, Vol. 1: Earth Calling

by | Nov 19, 2018

Potential alternate subtitles for Dark Fang, Vol 1: Earth Calling: It’s Vampires and the Environment It’s Very Adulty Here’s a vampire story line I haven’t seen before! And, let me tell you, I’ve read a lot of them. Dark Fang, vol. 1: Earth Calling is less sparkly...