Fantasy
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Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan My rating: 5 of 5 stars In terms of format, Tales from Outer Suburbia is the complete opposite of The Arrival (the first Shaun Tan book I read). Where The Arrival is wordless and told exclusively through a series of gray, black, and white illustrations, Tales from Outer
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Domovoi by Peter Bergting My rating: 2 of 5 stars I’m part of the group on Goodreads.com that really wanted to like the book more than I actually did and I do blame my own ignorance as an obstacle. I think maybe even a superficial knowledge of Sweden and its folklore would have been helpful
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It would have been too easy to include the trailer or a clip from the move adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events at the beginning of this review. Cary Grant’s “Hoodoo” skit in The Bachelor and the Bobbie Soxer does a better job at describing the subtle wordplay and humor in Snicket’s
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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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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:
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The risk of any sequel is that it could potentially denigrate the original that inspired it. Like when Paramount, MTV, and Nickelodeon joined together to attack the Asian American community and Airbender fans by insisting on casting all White actors as lead characters in the Asian influenced story (Learn the full story at racebending.com). OK,
Vincent Young 