Books
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If given the opportunity to speak with Joan Cooney and the other surviving Sesame Street founders, the first question I would ask them is “Do you think it worked?” Did Sesame Street help the audience of economically disadvantaged kids whose plight was the inspiration for the show? Even though Sesame Street and its characters are…
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American Vampire, Vol. 4 by Scott Snyder My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t remember the previous volumes well enough so I have to ask is Volume 4 the first time the vampires in American Vampire have a little “color” to them? The book begins with an American Indian vampire and concludes with an…
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Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team by Bill Willingham My rating: 5 of 5 stars I picked up Fables, Volume 16 from the library, after reading Bill Willingham’s introduction to Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ Unwritten. His heralding the age of the LAF (Literary-, Animal-, Fairy Tale- based comics) Triumvirate made me curious about the differences…
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ImaJunation’s Bad Days is one of my favorite sources for superhero parodies. POSSIBLE SPOILERS WARNING! I liked the movies (the new ones and the old ones) and the TV shows (the cartoons and the live-action), but it wasn’t until I played the Arkham City video game that I actually wanted to read a Batman comic.…
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Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick My rating: 3 of 5 stars My kids and I agreed that it isn’t as good as Hugo though it is nearly twice as thick. This doesn’t mean it is a bad book, however. In fact the story was a very good one. I was just not happy with the balance…
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The Neverending Story is my first thing that came to my mind when I thought about the stories I’ve read and seen about books with magic powers. WARNING: Potential Spoilers! In his introduction to Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ first volume of Unwritten, Bill Willngham cleaves the history of comic book stories into two periods:…
Vincent Young 