comic book superheroes – Looking For a Good Book

February 28, 2025

VELVETEEN VS. THE EARLY ADVENTURES – Seanan McGuire

Wow. WOW! This is 100% a five star book! I have been aware of author Seanan McGuire’s “Velveteen” series for a number of years now, but I hadn’t been motivated enough to crack open one of the books – for no particular reason other than that I’ve a lot of books in my TBR pile Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Short Fiction

August 1, 2022

SHADOW AVENGERS – Carrie Harris

Doctor Strange has been preparing for the arrival of Dormammu – a being who rule the Dark Dimension – and formed the Shadow Avengers as a small, super-hero army to do battle with the dark entity and his supporters when the time comes. The team consists of Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and the Black Panther. Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Middle Grade, Reviews, Young Adult

November 20, 2019

SUPER BOYS – Brad Ricca

Well this was informative! It’s pretty hard not to know who the character of Superman is, but naming the creators of Superman might be much more challenging to most people. Fans of comics and graphic novels likely already know of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and even someone like myself – very much on the Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, MEMOIR, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

4 stars, Biography, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Graphic Novels, non-fiction, Reviews, superheroes

August 5, 2019

JUDGE DREAD: YEAR ONE: CITY FATHERS – Matthew Smith

So, perhaps I shouldn’t have tried reading this book. I am not really very familiar with Judge Dredd from the comics or graphic novels or even with the movie version. But I wanted to be. I had made an assumption that a book with “Year One” in the title would help me better understand the Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

February 18, 2019

HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS

What is it about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe that it manages to have a lasting appeal? I was not aware that there had been a newspaper comic strip (daily and Sunday). 1,674 days worth of comic strips. So when I saw that Dark Horse gathered as many of these strips as possible Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, Uncategorized

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Graphic Novels, Reviews, superheroes, Television, Young Adult

October 10, 2018

THE SPECTACULAR SISTERHOOD OF SUPERWOMEN – Hope Nicholson

GRAPHIC NOVEL WEEK Of course this isn’t, technically speaking, a graphic novel, so why should I include a review during my Graphic Novel Week? As the subtitle boasts: “Awesome female characters from comic book history.” Every character mentioned here comes from comics, whether strips or books, print or digital, and comics of course, are the Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, GRAPHIC NOVEL, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Entertainment, Graphic Novels, History, non-fiction, Reviews, superheroes

September 26, 2017

STAN LEE: THE MAN BEHIND MARVEL – Bob Batchelor

Like many baby-boomers, I grew up reading comics and thinking of Stan Lee as that crazy but lovable uncle who knows how to talk to kids. Plus, he worked in comics – how cool is that?! While I was big into comics for much of the 1970’s I didn’t really stay with it, but I Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, GRAPHIC NOVEL, MEMOIR, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

4 stars, Biography, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Entertainment, Graphic Novels, non-fiction, Reviews, superheroes

July 17, 2017

WHAT IS A SUPERHERO? – Robin S. Rosenberg & Peter Coogan, editors

You can hardly turn around today without seeing a movie or television show featuring a superhero and they’re often on the covers of magazines and there are novelizations of their stories. And of course there are the comic books and graphic novels from which many of them sprouted. But what is a superhero? Such is Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, GRAPHIC NOVEL, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Entertainment, essays, non-fiction, Reviews, superheroes

March 17, 2017

MARVEL’S CAPTAIN AMERICA: SUB ROSA – David McDonald

I approached this book with trepidation after being less than impressed with the other two volumes in this ‘series’: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Castaways and Marvel’s Thor: Dueling With Giants. My caution was confirmed. This book is a bit better than “Castaways” but not quite as interesting as “Dueling With Giants.” Here, Captain America Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, ENTERTAINMENT, YA

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, comic book superheroes, Entertainment, Reviews, Young Adult

February 15, 2017

FUTURE QUEST, VOLUME 1 – graphic novel

GEEK OUT! THIS IS AWESOME! It is great to be in a time when it’s fashionable to admit to being a geek. In my youth I often tried to hide the fact that I was ‘into’ geeky things, but the geeks have taken charge (thanks Steve Jobs and Bill Gates) and we can cop to Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, Uncategorized

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Entertainment, Graphic Novels, Reviews, superheroes, Television

October 4, 2016

MONSTRESS #5 & #6 – graphic novel/comic

I absolutely love how this story is developing. For those of us used to reading the longer format (graphic novel), reading this as individual comics gets frustrating because it is over so quickly. Still, writer Marjorie Liu manages to pack a lot of information and story build into a short space. In this issue we Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

4 stars, 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Graphic Novels, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

September 30, 2016

MONSTRESS #3 & #4 – comic book

Issue #3 of this outstanding comic, Monstress, brings back the excitement (and evil) that made the first issue so thrilling. We get more questions than answers, but they are the questions the reader has likely started to ask – who is Maika? Where did she come from? Can she control her own abilities? Why does Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, Uncategorized

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Graphic Novels, Reviews