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Today’s topic is: All about the visuals: Top Ten Favorite Graphic Novels/Comics or Ten Comics on My TBR or Top Ten Favorite Picture Books
I don’t have ten favorites, however I do have 5 faves and 5 on my TBR.
Top 5 Favorite Graphic Novels/Comics:
Who is Wonder Woman? by Allan Heinberg
Synopsis from Goodreads:
In this volume from acclaimed writer Allan Heinberg (The OC) , the Amazon warrior Diana has gone missing, leaving Donna Troy to take up the mantle of Wonder Woman! When Diana returns, she goes under her former alias Diana Prince, acting as a secret agent and member of the Department of Metahuman Affairs. Her first assignment is to save Donna Troybut will she re-take the role of Wonder Woman?
Deadly Class, Vol. 1: Reagan Youth by Rick Remender
Synopsis from Goodreads:
It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he’s failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical.
Collecting the first arc of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Fear Agent) and rising star artist WESLEY CRAIG (Batman). Experience the 1980s underground through the eyes of the world’s most damaged and dangerous teenagers. Collects DEADLY CLASS #1-6.
Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Hot in the City by Amanda Conner
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains … and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad Hardin and a slew of comics’ best artists including Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Tony S. Daniel, Paul Pope, Walter Simonson and Art Baltazar!
Collects HARLEY QUINN #0-8.
Jessica Jones: Alias Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Collects Alias #1-9. Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed super hero — but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the amazing abilities of the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, she never found her niche. The self-destructive would-be Avenger is now the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations — a small, private-investigative firm specializing in superhuman cases. When she uncovers the potentially explosive secret of one hero’s true identity, Jessica’s life immediately becomes expendable. But her wit, charm and intelligence just may help her survive another day. Thrust into the midst of a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels, has Jessica burned too many bridges to turn to old friends for help?
I have a spoiler free review here.
Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their attraction is instant and electric, and Clementine find herself in a relationship that will test her friends, parents, and her own ideas about herself and her identity.
I have a spoiler free review here.
Top 5 Graphic Novels/Comics on my TBR:
Wire and Nerves, Vol. 1 by Marissa Meyer
Synopsis from Goodreads:
In her first graphic novel, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller Marissa Meyer follows Iko, the beloved android from the Lunar Chronicles, on a dangerous and romantic new adventure — with a little help from Cinder and the Lunar team.
In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new, action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold. When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers’ leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the bestselling series.
The Fade Out: Act One by Ed Brubaker
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Brubaker and Phillips’ newest hit series, The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true. The Fade Out is Brubaker and Phillips’ most ambitious project yet!
Collecting: The Fade Out 1-4
Monstress Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones.
Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren’t the heroes everyone thinks they are.
But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona’s powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Synopsis from Goodreads:
When Coraline steps through a door in her family’s new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth.
But there’s another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Some of the graphic novels on my favorites pile aren’t all 5 stars but they have stayed with me and are definitely worth the read. The ones on my TBR have made me eager to read them ASAP, however some other books are on my priority list. I think I’ll just try to read one graphic novel per month. What are you thoughts? Have you read some of these? And if yes, what did you think? Let’s chat in the comments!
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I loved Monstress so much! The images alone were stunning! I’m also looking forward to reading Wire and Nerves.
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Yay!! This makes me really excited to read Monstress. I want to read Wires and Nerves but after I finish Cress and Winter =)
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These sound super awesome! I will definitely read Wires and Nerve very soon 😊
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy Wires and Nerves =)
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Thanks! I hope you do too 🙂
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Reading a graphic novel version of Coraline would be so cool! I’ve never read any version of it before or watched the movie, but I love Neil Gaiman. Great list!
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I have never read anything Neil Gaiman *shame on me* lol so this would be my first. I’m excited!
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These all look fantastic. Great post!
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Thanks sweets!
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Thank you so much!
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These all looks super cool! Hope you enjoy reading them! 😀
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Thanks sweets!! Do you plan on reading any?
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I’m hoping to read Monstress by Marjorie! 🙂
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Awesome! I hope we both love it =)
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These look so awesome! I’ll have to check them out!
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you enjoy them =)
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Monstress and Wires & Nerves are on my list for sure! But now I am very intrigued by The Fade Out. I am not sure how this is the first time I am learning of it?! Oh and Coraline, because I fail and still have not read ❤ Not sure if I ever mentioned how I lost "mother of the year" by taking my daughter to see that and it ending up scaring her. I own a copy of the filmm (huge Burton and Gaiman fan) and she still will not watch it with mme 😦 Love the topic ❤
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I still haven’t read any Gaiman so this for sure would be my first time *hides face full of shame* lol
I would love to read Wires and Nerves but I will have to wait till after I read Cress and Winter. That’s still on my TBR.
Sorry to hear about your daughter but I’m pretty sure you’re still a great mom every single day and year ❤
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Haha she needs to suck it up. Coraline was not that scary hehe.. okay maybe the button eyes.. le sigh 💕
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lmao!
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Great picks for this week Gretchen. I haven’t read many graphic novels myself but I do have Wires and Nerves on my to-read list and I can’t wait to get around to it when it’s finally released (then again I think that’s got more to do with the fact that it’s Marissa Meyer rather than the fact that it’s a graphic novel). I have read and loved Nimona though, it’s amazing so I hope you love it too, so I guess maybe this is a genre I need to check out a little more! 😀
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I cannot wait to read Wires and Nerves but that will be after I read Cress and Winter. Which I still haven’t read *shame on me*
All I hear are great things about Nimona so I cannot wait ❤
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Well in that case hopefully the release of Wires and Nerves will make you want to get through Cress and Winter! 🙂 They’e both amazing books and I’m sure the graphic novel will be as well.
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yes!!!!
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I am so curious to hear your thoughts on both Monstress and Coraline, Well Mostress for reasons you already know (LOVED IT!) & Coraline because I have yet to read it & you know how I feel about Uncle Gaiman *hehe* LOVE Wonderwoman, I actually have a few of her comics in digital format but was hoping to pick up the latest re-vamped volumes. Great picks this week twin <3!
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I’ve read some of the re-vamped Wonder Woman and I liked it so far, I need to read it all over again though lol. Thank you!
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I just admitted this on Lilly’s TTT post, but I’ll tell you my dirty little secret too. I’ve never read a comic book ((hides head in shame)). I have read a few illustrated editions (Harry Potter, A Monster Calls, etc. etc.) but that is the closest I’ve come. I am not opposed to them, I just haven’t had any desire to pick them up. I am going to make it a goal to pick one up this year!
I read Coraline this past October for Halloween! Perfect Halloween read for me since I’m a bit of a wuss lol I would love to read the illustrated edition!
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That’s okay!!! Some types of books aren’t for everyone! I hope you like them. Btw, there are some kid friendly graphic novels for when your kids get older maybe you both can pick up and do a Kids Corner 😉
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Baaaaaahhhhh you are brilliant! What a fantastic idea! My son is a reluctant reader, but enjoys graphic novels (like Diary of a Wimpy Kid) so I know he’d love comic books… Do you have any recommendations for any appropriate for a 10 year old?
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I haven’t read any children’s graphic novels, BUT!!! My friends kid who’s that age really likes Raina Telgemeier. He’s read Smile and Drama. I think they have those in all libraries =)
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Yes! He really enjoyed those books too 😊 At first I was a little hesitant because I was prejudiced about graphic novels at first… shouldn’t kids be reading “real books”? BUT I then realized that reading is reading and I should just be happy his face isn’t glued to a screen 😅
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Yes!!!! I love that!! I’m happy he enjoyed those books =)
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YES. I adore graphic novels. I don’t think they get the credit they deserve in the bookish world. I’m actually a bit jealous I didn’t think of this one myself. 🙂 Blue is the Warmest Color and Wires and Nerve are both on my graphic novel TBR shortlist. I can’t wait to read them both. I am really interested to see how my visualization of The Lunar Chronicles characters transfers. Coraline and Nimona are both AMAZING. Gaiman is brilliant. And Noelle Stevenson is definitely someone to keep an eye out for as she keeps making graphic novels. Gorgeous art, brilliant and diverse stories.
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OMG thank you! You just got me super hyped to read some of these now. I am also super curious about Wires and Nerves but I cannot read it till I finish Cress and Winter lol. I don’t want to get spoiled for those books or be lost in confusion at all lol. I’m hoping to tackle some of the TBR this month. I love reviewing these and I realized that I don’t review graphic novels enough on my blog either. Blue is the Warmest Color is just a beautiful message that will have you crying in the end. ugh so wonderful!
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It’s been a long time since I’ve read a graphic novel which made me cry (Maus, I’m looking at you!). I am looking forward to it. I hope that you made good progress on your graphic novel TBR
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Thank you!
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