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    Dark Horse Brings Tomb Raider Back to Comics

    Lori Henderson, March 3, 2014 | Young Adult

    Recently, the video game Tomb Raider and its main character Lara Croft got a reboot, taking Lara back to her beginnings as an archaeologist and tough adventurer. Dark Horse Comics has picked up on the popularity of the video game and has a new ongoing series coming out which continues Lara’s story from where it […]

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    Review: Star Wars: Ewoks – Shadows of Endor

    Mike Pawuk, January 13, 2014 | All Ages, Graphic Novels, Reviews

    Star Wars: Ewoks – Shadows of Endor Written and Illustrated by Zack Giallongo Published by Dark Horse Comics ISBN 978-1-61655-174-2 80 pp. Even though Dark Horse Comics will be losing the Star Wars license at the end of 2014, they have made they’ve made quite a wonderful selection of stories since 1991. The books have […]

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    First Second announces new trilogy from Faith Erin Hicks

    Brigid Alverson, November 5, 2013 | Graphic Novels

    First Second made a big announcement yesterday: They will publish The Nameless City, a new trilogy from writer and artist Faith Erin Hicks. Here’s the blurb: An unlikely friendship forms between Nameless City native Rat, and Kai, whose country has recently conquered her city. The two of them must find common ground between their cultures […]

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    Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Detective Diary Vol. 1

    J. Caleb Mozzocco, October 15, 2013 | Manga, Reviews

    Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Detective Agency Vol. 1 Written and drawn by Takumi Yoshimura Dark Horse, $9.99 At what precise point does the expansion of a franchise cross over from abundant to ludicrous? Take the 1995 giant robot, teen angst and Christian iconography anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, for example. Ignoring the other […]

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    Roundtable: Our favorite holiday graphic novels

    Brigid Alverson, December 10, 2012 | Graphic Novels, Roundtables

    With the air filled with holiday tunes and the TV schedule filled with holiday specials, we thought it would be an opportune time to recommend some of our favorite holiday-themed graphic novels as well. I’ll start with Craig Yoe’s Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories. I love a big, colorful treasury like this, and […]

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    Review: P.C. Cast’s House of Night: Legacy

    Brigid Alverson, July 11, 2012 | Reviews, Young Adult

    I was pretty dubious about House of Night: Legacy, when I first picked it up. Does the world really need another graphic novel about a school for vampires—preciously spelled “vampyres”? The answer turns out to be yes, if it’s this one. I’m not familiar with the Casts’ prose novels, on which this is based (it […]

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    Links: Leapin’ lizards!

    Katherine Dacey, September 12, 2011 | News

    True or false: when Harold Gray originally pitched Little Orphan Annie, the lead character was, in fact, a boy named Otto. Brian Cronin has the answer in his latest Comic Book Legends Revealed column, in which he looks at this famous Depression-era strip. It’s time for the annual Top Shelf sale, in which everything but […]

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    Links: Level Up, Air Bender!

    Katherine Dacey, August 29, 2011 | News

    Coming soon from Dark Horse: an all-new Avatar: The Last Airbender comic written by Gene Luen Yang, author of American-Born Chinese and Level Up! Yang seems bullish about the project. “The pencils I’ve seen have been pure comics bliss,” he reports. “I giggled when I first saw them. Out loud. No joke. I sounded exactly […]

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    Links: Boys don’t read?

    Katherine Dacey, May 16, 2011 | News

    Over at The Huffington Post, author Charles London tackles a question that’s been on many educators’ minds of late: how can teachers and parents encourage boys to read more? His argument is that boys are readers, but the kind of material that appeals to them often falls outside the canon of approved kid-lit. “Even when […]

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    The Reading Pile – April 4

    Katherine Dacey, April 4, 2011 | Reviews

    Welcome to another edition of The Reading Pile! This week, fellow GC4K contributors Snow Wildsmith and Mike Pawuk join me for a roundtable discussion about new and noteworthy titles for teens. On the agenda: X-Men,  Star Wars, and Dave Roman’s eagerly anticipated new series Astronaut Academy. SNOW: I’ve been reading a wide variety of graphic […]

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