Do you have a gory and hilarious comic book shaped hole in your life? What about one that’s full of alternate dimensions, purgatory, and a ton of nudity and blood? Than this might be something that you want to check out in the future.
4/5 Stars 160 pages Published 2021 by Vault Comics
Bill is a man who’s been forced into the role of an assassin, across too many dimensions to count. All because of his diseased wife’s ex, who’s psycho brain decided to murder them one night. He doesn’t want to hurt people, especially kill them, but he does what he does because he has to. They say he’ll eventually be able to make his way up to heaven to see his wife. That is, until everything changes, and he gets a new partner. The man that killed him.
This book is a wild ride from start to finish. Filled with murder, blood, gore, nudity, and lots of funny jokes just tossed in there, the bright colours that the art brings really livens up the story and makes it a joy to read. I think it fits perfectly. I couldn’t ask for more. The story itself was engaging, exciting, and just something I didn’t want to put down. I couldn’t get enough, and I can’t wait for the next volume, that’s for sure. At only 111 pages, it was a breeze to read through. I definitely recommend checking it out if you like any of those things.
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If you know me, you know will always love a gory graphic novel. And this is definitely one of them. Shadow Service is an addicting book that I really loved checking out. The story was extremely gripping and the art was mind boggling, I really could never have thought of anything like it in a million years. A new twist on magic powers and demon possession, I really couldn’t get enough. I can’t wait to see what the next volume is all about.
4/5 Stars 128 pages Published April 20th 2021 by Vault Comics
Following a girl named Gina, she tries to live her life as what she knows is a witch, with crippling insomnia due to her powers. This entangled with her past makes her life tough, and even her job doesn’t help that out. She hunts down people who have gone missing, and one night on one of her jobs, she finds something that she never expected. Not only a gored dead body, but a man feasting on the remains. After attacking her she finds herself kidnapped and taken to a boy named Hex, who’s actually four hundred years old.
He wants her for her powers. And he’s willing to stop at nothing to force her to help them out with what they need to do. But Gina doesn’t like that at all. Honestly a lot of this book is blood, guts, gore, and Gina running away. And that’s just how I like it. Like I said earlier, this book was so exciting and interesting that I really can’t wait to see what happens in the next volume. I loved the art a lot, especially on the monsters, demons, and gore. I definitely recommend checking it out if you like graphic novels like that!
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4/5 Stars 160 pages Published March 16th 2021 by Vault Comics
With a beautifully dark and gothic artistic style, Vampire: The Masquerade Vol. 1 is a very interesting book about, you guessed it, vampires, and a game I’ve never played before.. These vampires, however, are a little different than the usual, being part of a secret society existing alongside our own, and anyone who dares cross them or reveal their secret is bound to be hunted down and killed in cold blood sooner or later. Perfect for the comic book readers that love a dark and grungy story full of blood and mysteries or anyone who has played the tabletop game.
Starting off right in the action, we see a vampire woman killing a human girl for finding out about her kind. Clearly, they will stop at nothing to hide their secret. Having fangs and drinking blood aren’t the only things that these vampires have though, because some can also use blood magic. But there’s an internal war going on in their society, threatening to split the city into two sections, Minneapolis, and the Minneapolis separatists. And that’s never good, especially for anyone caught in the middle. And to make things worse, there’s a group of killers mutilating and taking body parts from other vampires. And they’re unlike anything I could have imagined. I had a feeling from the beginning that this was going to be a very dark bloody book, and I was right. And I loved it.
Overall, this book was a great read and I really enjoyed getting to know more about everything going on. The characters all had real problems to deal with, other than being vampires, and I really enjoyed that, especially Cecily’s. I think she’s my favourite. I also really liked that there were character sheets to fill out in the back with tons of information for those sheets. It makes me want to try to play the game! If you like dark stories with tons of blood and mystery, and lots of points of view all weaved together, than I definitely recommend checking this out!
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Looking for an insane story of the apocalypse due to a virus? Do you want to see kids really have to take things into their own hands in that kind of world? If so, this might be something you want to look into the next time you’re looking for a graphic novel to read. It really shows the gritty parts of a terrifying future fantasy, and that’s just what I love about reading comics. And who knows? You might too.
5/5 Stars 152 pages Published March 23rd 2021 by Image Comics
This book follows a family, a single dad and his two kids. After losing their mother to a virus that sweeps the world and creates a kind of chaos that destroys society as we know it, they’re forced to leave their home, sacrifice their pet, and really fend for themselves not only out in the wilderness, but in a chaotic village full of nasty people. Willing to do what they need to survive, they also end up picking up a baby along the way, and then eventually more people. It really shows the hard parts of life, like trying to live again after losing someone that means so much to you.
I loved this story from the moment I picked it up, and honestly, I knew that I would. I’m just addicted to these kinds of post apocalyptic stories, they’re so interesting and exciting to me. Yes, some parts were hard to read and hurt my heart, but I pushed through and came out clean on the other side. The art work was also a very nice addition, and really matched the story, in my opinion. I couldn’t ask for anything more from it, and I can’t wait to see what happens after this book. It really captured everything perfectly.
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Before I say anything, I just need to talk about the art for this book, because it’s just so adorable and somehow fits so well with the dark story that the plot holds, I wish I had it on my walls. It’s unlike anything I’ve read lately, and I really just can’t get enough about it. Following a group of young people in a zombie apocalypse, this one’s a little different, seeing as the zombies are attracted to sugar and food instead of human flesh. That’s not going to stop the last living people though, some have turned to cannibalism. This was a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading.
5/5 Stars 80 pages Published January 20th 2021 by Europe Comics
A family, and a group of kids with their back up against the wall, fighting for every day. That’s what this book is about. Just trying to survive. And that’s what makes a great zombie book. It’s also about a boy with powers, and a girl who’s trying to keep her family together. The worst part is yet to come though, because when an eerie green storm takes over their city, that’s when the creatures come out. Trapped out in the storm surrounded by monsters, the small group of children are forced to fight their way back to their base, and make it to safety.
This book was everything I wanted it to be and more! With the art and the unique story, I was sucked in from the very beginning, and I loved how detailed everything was. I didn’t feel like I was missing anything at all, and I would love to have a copy for my bookshelf and comic collection. I really liked that all the characters were so different and had their own struggles and still their stories tied together really nicely. I can’t wait to check out the next volume!
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5/5 Stars 160 pages Published August 4th 2020 by Image Comics
Do you love X-Men just as much as I do? People who have special powers each as unique as they are? What about a world where they’re segregated from the people who don’t have powers and the government demonizes them? Than this book will be perfect for you. Not only do they have their own powers, but occasionally, they can combo their powers together, creating even stronger ones. Don’t expect this book to be completely straightforward though, because there are some crazy twists in the story even I didn’t expect.
At the beginning, we see a young man and woman in an alley, making graffiti. Pretty harmless, right? Well not to everyone. Because special Variant officers come and take them down, treating the one they catch as a hardened criminal, and taking her far away and not letting her see the light of day. She’s missing, and the only person that can help her is Charlie, the young man who was with her, who secretly films the assault on Nona and uploads it for the world to see. But is he doing it for the right reasons?
He then joins up with a team of women who are determined to change the world, and how people see and treat Variants, the people with powers. But it’s going to be a long road before they get justice, and before the officers even begin to see them as people. But they’re just as much people as anyone else, most of them barely having any powers at all. The world needs to change, and they’re going to do whatever they can to do it.
This book was one that I knew as soon as I started it, I was going to be obsessed with. I love the art, it’s so cartoony and amazing and it just fits the story so well, even the violent parts that aren’t so innocent. I also love the bright colours in this, as a girl with coloured hair, I always love a main character with brightly coloured hair like me. I couldn’t get enough of it. And I can’t wait to check out the next volume. Definitely check it out if you get the chance, and even if you don’t think you would love it, I think you should just try it out. I’m sure you’ll be as obsessed as I am.
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Hey everyone! I’m posting a bonus today, because I like to break up the cover reveals on my blog so there’s a little variety, you know? So here we go! My favourite books I read last month.
First off, Leonardo 2 by Stephane Levallois.
Planet Earth, engaged in an intergalactic conflict, owes its salvation to the clone of Leonardo da Vinci and to the rebirth of his genius. Author Stéphane Levallois has created the fantastic universes of many of the big Hollywood blockbusters (Alien, King Kong (Skull Island), Harry Potter and many others). The result of two years of elaboration and work, this space opera exemplifies his talent in two areas that he masters to perfection: the universe of science fiction and art. To build his story and compose his boards, Levallois draws from the painted and drawn work of the Renaissance master, selecting a large number of drawings and paintings by Leonardo to represent the characters, vessels or even the architectures in his story. The grand scale result is stupefying as Leonardo’s everlasting visions are successfully projected into a stunning futuristic setting.
Second is The Cup and the Prince (Kingdom of Curses and Shadows #1) by Day Leitao.
One prince wants her out. Another wants her as a pawn. Someone wants her dead.
Zora wants to win the cup and tell them all to screw themselves.
Yes, 17-year-old Zora cheated her way into the Royal Games, but it was for a very good reason. Her ex-boyfriend thought she couldn’t attain glory on her own. Just because she was a girl. And he was the real cheater. So she took his place.
Now she’s competing for the legendary Blood Cup, representing the Dark Valley. It’s her chance to prove her worth and bring glory for her people. If she wins, of course.
But winning is far from easy. The younger prince thinks she’s a fragile damsel who doesn’t belong in the competition. Determined to eliminate her at all costs, he’s stacking the challenges against her. Zora hates him, hates him, hates him, and will do anything to prove him wrong.
The older prince is helping her, but the cost is getting Zora entangled in dangerous flirting games. Flirting, the last thing she wanted. And then there’s someone trying to kill her.
Third is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins.
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.
The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute… and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
The fourth book is Girl Minus X by Anne Stone.
Fifteen-year-old Dany is trying to survive with her little sister, Mac, in a world collapsing under the weight of a slow, creeping virus that erodes memory. As their identities slip away from them, the late-stage infected are quarantined by the Ministry of Disease Control in prison-hospices, military camps where some of Dany’s family have already been taken.
When a new and more virulent strain of the disease emerges and Dany begins to experience symptoms, the sisters are cast into crisis. As they try to escape the city together with Dany’s best friend, Eva, and history teacher, Mr. Faraday, Dany comes to see the ways in which her own fear has carried her trauma with her. As her past erodes, Dany’s present flickers into full fluorescence.
Elegant and thoughtful, Girl Minus X is a novel in which a young girl navigates her trauma in a world that can’t help but forget.
And the last one is Echoes of War (Echoes Trilogy #1) by Cheryl Campbell.
Decades of war started by a genocidal faction of aliens threatens the existence of any human or alien resisting their rule on Earth. Dani survives by scavenging enough supplies to live another day while avoiding the local military and human-hunting Wardens. But then she learns that she is part of the nearly immortal alien race of Echoes—not the human she’s always thought herself to be—and suddenly nothing in her life seems certain.
Following her discovery of her alien roots, Dani risks her well-being to save a boy from becoming a slave—a move that only serves to make her already-tenuous existence on the fringes of society in Maine even more unstable, and which forces her to revisit events and people from past lives she can’t remember. Dani believes the only way to defeat the Wardens and end their dominance is to unite the Commonwealth’s military and civilians, and she becomes resolved to play her part in this battle. Her attempts to change the bleak future facing the humans and Echoes living on Earth suffering under the Wardens will lead her to clash with a tyrant determined to kill her and all humankind—a confrontation that even her near-immortal heritage may not be able to help her survive.
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I’m going to be honest, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting myself into with this book, and even though I had read the description, It really didn’t prepare me for what really happened. In this graphic novel is a collection of breathtaking works of art, and they are woven into an equally breathtaking story. I never thought scifi could blend so seamlessly with this style of art, and really Leonardo Da Vinci in general, but here I am, blown away and in awe of this book. I really enjoyed it, if you haven’t gotten the message yet.
5/5 Stars 96 pages Published October 15th 2020 by NBM Publishing
In the future, Earth has been ravaged. The only people left are aboard The Renaissance, a ship circling the planet. But they’re not safe yet. An intergalactic ship has been tormenting the survivors with threats of war and destruction, and they’re going to keep their promise. And the only hope that humanity has, is that by cloning Leonardo Da Vinci, they wish to tap into his genius and allow him to create weapons of mass destruction. However, things don’t go exactly how they could have hoped.
With a beautiful art style unlike any of the other graphic novels I’ve read I think ever, this is a book that would really stand out on my shelf. Not only because of the art, but also the story. Woven together are pieces of their present day Leonardo 2 putting his master plan into place, and snippets of the original Leonardo’s life. He’s haunted by his past mistakes, and hopes to correct them in this new life he’s been given. And I think that’s exactly what he does.
Overall, I don’t think I’m going to forget this graphic novel for a really long time. I want to re read it, and hold it in my hands, and that’s why I hope I can buy it sometime in the future. I would love to let my friends and family borrow it. I want everyone to know about it. And that’s really just that. I couldn’t get enough of it, and I can’t recommend it enough. Definitely check it out if you see it around, I think you’ll learn some new facts about Leonardo Da Vinci, just like I did.
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Need something short and sweet to fill a gap in your reading? Than this is the book you should grab. Bloody, hypnotic and attention grabbing, Dracula, Motherf**ker is really just perfect, in my opinion. I powered through it very quickly, it being only about eighty pages, and I’d love to have a copy of it on my shelf, just to have, you know?
4/5 Stars 72 pages Published October 13th 2020 by Image Comics
Dracula’s brides have been around for just as long as the big man himself has. Following a corpse photographer, he stumbles on something he’s going to with he never did. The brides are out for blood and revenge, and they won’t let anyone get in their way of their plan, to take Dracula out. After years and years of him using them to steal their power, making him think he wants them and then tossing them aside like they’re nothing, they’re sick of it.
Overall, I thought that the story was short but really interesting and gory. Just what I love in a comic book. I found that the art style was beautifully hypnotic, and perfectly captured the story. I’d love to have this on my bookshelf just so I could look at it again. Even if you don’t like gory comics, I think that you should check this out if you think it’s interesting, because I really loved it.
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