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Tag: Young Adult
This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story | Review
Blue Beetle wraps a story about immigration and conflict in a superhero tale of a teenage boy whose superpowers come with a command to prepare the earth for incoming aliens.
Visitations | Review
A heart-wrenching story about a young man who puts his mother on a pedestal only to realize she is only human.
Planeta Blu | Preview
Four teenagers are called upon by the animal kingdom to hold off environmental catastrophe in this new YA fantasy tale by hip-hop artist Tem Blessed.
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Spider-Man Fake Red | Review
Esther checks out the new Spider-Man manga from Viz, Spider-Man: Fake Red.
Review: Banned Book Club
Esther tries something new with a look at 'Banned Book Club,' the story of a group of college students in South Korea who are determined to read books banned by their autocratic government.
Review: Anne Frank’s Diary: A Graphic Adaptation
Anne Frank's Diary is just one person's account of the Holocaust, but it's an account that many people can relate to.
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Exclusive Preview: He-Man: The Eternity War #2
Most of our previews are for comics for young children; this one is pitched at an older audience (it’s rated 12+) but it’s based on a toy many of us remember from our childhoods: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He-Man: The Eternity War has He-Man, She-Ra, and Teela leading their troops in a […]
Dark Horse Brings Tomb Raider Back to Comics
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 […]
Preview: Sabrina: The Magic Within, vol. 4
Back in the middle of the manga boom, the Archie folks moved the character Sabrina the Teenage Witch to a manga style, written and mostly drawn by Tania del Rio. The format stayed the same, though—full-color monthly comics, not the black-and-white digests manga readers are accustomed to. Last year, they started re-releasing the comics as […]
Cybils Graphic Novel Finalists Announced
The shortlists have been released for the 2013 Cybils (the Children and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards), and they should look awfully familiar to our readers—many of the nominated books in the Elementary and Middle Grade category made our list of the best graphic novels of 2013, and Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite made […]
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