July 1, 2012

July Reads

Enter the names of the graphic novels you reviewed in July.  Enter in this format Name (Book by Author) i.e. Reader (The Big Book by Sir Writes A-Lot).  Any problems leave a comment and I'll get to it.

1. Mervi (Avengers: Under Siege by Roger Stern and John Buscema)  17. Joseph (B.P.R.D. Being Human)  
2. Nicola(Yow! Drawn & Quarterly Presents A "John Stanley Library" Grab-Bag for Free Comic Book Day 2010)  18. Joe(Batman:The Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, Jock and Francesco Francavilla)  
3. Nicola (Holliday by Nate Bowden)  19. Sandy (Soulless, vol 1 by Gaile Carriger)  
4. TFrances (Sandman Vol. 4)  20. Larissa (Death - High Cost of Living & Time of your Life by Neil Gaiman)  
5. TFrances (Persepolis 1)  21. Nicola (Reed Gunther,The Bear Riding Cowboy: Volume 1 by Shane & Chris Houghton)  
6. TFrances (Persepolis 2)  22. Nancy (The Mythology Class by Arnold Arre)  
7. TFrances (Sandman Vol. 5)  23. Tom (TRON: BETRAYAL by Jai Nitz)  
8. Nicola (Rogue Trooper, Vol. 1 by Gerry Finley-Day)  24. Jim (Punisher Max: Kingpin)  
9. Joe(The Authority by Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch)  25. Joe(Heart by Blair Butler and Kevin Mellon)  
10. Nicola (Baby's in Black by Arne Bellstorf|)  26. Nicola (The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Tim Conrad)  
11. Sandy (Maximum Ride, vol. 3 by James Patterson)  27. War and Pieces (Karissa's Reading Review)  
12. Mervi (X-Men: the Second Coming)  28. Sandy (Maximum Ride, vol 4 by James Patterson)  
13. The Good Prince (Karissa's Reading Review)  29. Nicola (xenoholics Vol. 1)  
14. Nicola (Jack Vance The Moon Moth by Humayoun Ibrahim)  30. Sunset by Chritos Gage  
15. Prince of Elves (Karissa's Reading Review)  31. The Dark Ages (Karissa's REading Review)  
16. Nicola (Bloody Chester by JT Petty)  32. Sandy (Arisa, vol. 2 by Natsumi Ando)  

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Individual Books Read Up and Including July:

Jason Aaron:  Punisher Max: Kingpin (Jim)


Ninomiya Ai: Are You Alice? Vol. 1 (Healiel)

Natsumi Ando:  Arisa, Vol. 2 (Sandy)

Anthologies: Tall: Great American Folktales (Nicola)

Arnold Are: The Mythology Class (Nancy)

Hiroyuki Asada: Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 1 (Larissa); Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 7 (Nicola); Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Vol. 8 (Nicola)

Atsuko Asano: NO.6, Vol. 1 (Healiel)

Penelope Bagieu: 
Cadavre Exquis (Larissa); La Page Blanche (Larissa)

Frank Beddor: 
Hatter M, Vol. 1 (Karissa); (TFrances); Hatter M, Vol. 2 (TFrances); Hatter M, Vol. 3 (TFrances)

Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (Bex)

Arne Bellstorf: Baby's in Black (Nicola)

Brian Michael Bendis: Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel (Nicola)

Hannah Berry: Britten and Brulightly (Chris@Nerfreader)

Ned Bowden: Holliday (Nicola)


Raymond Briggs: 
When the Wind Blows (Nicola); Ethel & Ernest, a true story (Nicola)


Joe Brusha: Neverland (Karissa)

Kurt Busiek: 
Superstar: As Seen On TV (Jim Black);
Avengers: The Morgan Conquest (Mervi); Avengers: Assemble, vol.1 (Mervi); Avengers Assemble, vol. 2 (Mervi); Avengers: Living Legends (Mervi)

Blair Butler:  Heart (Joe)

Gail Carriger:  Soulless, Vol. 1 (Sandy)

Michael Cavallero: The Wizard of Oz (Tom)

Scott Chantler: Two Generals (John)

Scott Ciencin: Power at the Plate (Nicola)

Clamp: X 3-in1. Vol.1 (Nicola); X 3-in-1. Vol. 2 (Nicola)

Daniel Clowes: The Death-Ray (Kat)

Tim Conrad: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Nicola)

Paul Cornell: Batman & Robin: Dark Knight, White Knight (Karissa)

Willow Dawson: Hyena in Petticoats, The Story of Suffragette Nellie McClung (Nicola)

Keith R.A. DeCandido: Star Trek :TNG: Perchance to Dream (Mervi)

Nunzio DeFillipis: The Avalon Chronicles #1 (Nicola)

Guy DeLisle: Burma Chronicles (Larissa); Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (Larissa)

Ian Edington:  Leviathon (Nicola)

Garth Ennis: The Boys, Vol. 9 (TFrances); The Boy, Vol.10 (TFrances)

Gerry Finley-Day: Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth Vol. 01 (Nicola)

Christos Gage:  Sunset (Nicola)

Michel Gagne: The Saga of Rex (Karissa)

Neil Gaiman: The Sandman #1: Preludes & Nocturnes (TFrances); The Sandman #2 (TFrances)The Sandman #4 (TFrances); The Sandman #5 (TFrances); Death: The High Cost of Living (Larissa); Death: Time of Your Life (Larissa)

Rick Geary: The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans (Nicola)

Graphic Classics: Vol. 22, African-American Classics (Nicola)

Alan Grant: Judge Andersen: The Psychic Crime Files (Nicola)

Justin Gray: Trailblazer (Jim Black)

Jim Henson: Tale of Sand (Jean-Paul)

Herge:
Cigars of the Pharoah (Aaron); The Blue Lotus (Aaron); The Broken Ear (Aaron); The Black Island (Aaron); King Ottokar's Sceptre (Aaron); The Crab with the Golden Claws (Aaron); The Shooting Star (Aaron); The Secret of the Unicorn (Aaron); Red Rackham's Treasure (Aaron); The Seven Crystal Balls (Aaron); Prisoners of the Sun (Aaron); Land of Black Gold (Aaron); Destination Moon (Aaron); Explorers on the Moon (Aaron); The Calculus Affair (Aaron); The Red Sea Sharks (Aaron); Tintin in Tibet (Aaron); The Castsifiore Emerald (Aaron); Flight 714 (Aaron); Tintin and the Picaros (Aaron)

Faith Erin Hicks: 
Friends with Boys (Nicola); Zombies Calling (Nicola)

Joe Hill: Locke and Key #1: Welcome to Lovecraft (Tif)

Gareth Hinds: The Odyssey (Tom)

Shane Houghton:  Reed Gunther,The Bear Riding Cowboy: Volume 1 (Nicola)

Humayoun Ibrahim: Jack Vance's The Moon Moth (Nicola); (Karissa)

Jeff Jensen: Green River Killer: A True Detective Story (Nicola)

Jeff Johns: The Brightest Day, Vol. 2 (Tom); The Justice League, Vol. 1: The Origin (Nicola)

R. Kikuo Johnson: The Shark King (Tom)

Antony Johnston: The Coldest City (Nicola)

Chigusa Kawai: Alice the 101st, Vol. 2 (Reading Challenged)

Kazu Kibuishi: Amulet #5 (Karissa)

Robert Kirkman: 
Super Dinosaur, Vol. 1 (Nicola); 
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 (GuadiRC); (Tom), The Walking Dead, Vol. 2 (Tom); The Walking Dead, Vol. 3 (Tom); The Walking Dead, Vol. 4 (Tom) (TFrances); The Walking Dead, Vol. 10 (Joseph); The Walking Dead, Vol. 11 (Joseph); The Walking Dead, Vol. 12 (Joseph)

Tite Kubo: Bleach, vol. 37 (Kat)

Lang, John: Lone Hawk: The Story of Air Ace Billy Bishop
 (Nicola)

Joseph Lanzara: 
Dante's The Inferno: The Graphic Novel (Tom); (Nicola)

Tony Lee:
Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur (Tom); Doctor Who: The Forgotten (TFrances)

Jeff Lemire: Animal Man, Vol. 1 (Tom)

Robert James Luedke: Eyewitness: Unknown God (Tom)

Brian Lynch: Angel, vol. 6: Last Angel in Hell (Larissa)

Ellie Mamahara: Double Cast (Reading Challenged)

David Michelini: The Avengers: Nights of Wondergrore (Mervi)

Mike Mignola: B.P.R.D.: Being Human (Joseph); 
Masks & Monsters (Joseph)

Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba: Daytripper (the misanthropologist)

Alan Moore: 
Tom Strong, Book 3 (Mervi); Tom Strong, Book 4 (Mervi); Tom Strong, Book 6 (Mervi)

Leah Moore: Doctor Who: Through Time and Space (TFrances)

Grant Morrison: Judge Dredd: Crusade & Frankenstein Division (Nicola)

Mozchops: Salsa Invertebraxa (Nicola)

Ted Naifeh: 
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom (Karissa); Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics (Karissa); Courtney Crumrin's Monstrous Holiday (Karissa)


Jai Nitz: Tron: Betrayal (Tom)

George O'Connor: Hades: Lord of the Dead (Nicola)

Héctor Germán Oesterheld: El Eternauta (GuadiRC)

Megumi Osuga: 
MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 7 (Nicola); MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 8 (Nicola); MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 9 (Nicola); MAOH: Juvenile Remix, Vol. 10 (Nicola)

Greg Pak: Alpha Flight, Vol. 1 (Jim Black)

JT Petty: Bloody Chester (Nicola)

James Patterson: Maximum Ride, Vol. 3 (Sandy); Maximum Ride, Vol. 4 (Sandy)

David Peterson: 
Mouse Guard: Fall of 1152 (Karissa); Mouse Guard: Winter of 1152 (Karissa)

Peyo: The Smurfs #8: The Smurf Apprentice (Tom); The Smurfs #10: The Return of Smurfette (Tom)

Mike Raicht: The Jungle (Karissa)

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg: Cowboys and Aliens (Tom)

Greg Rucka: Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (Tom)

Marjanne Satrapi: Embroideries (Larissa); Chicken with Plums (Larissa); Persepolis 1 (TFrances); Persepolis 2 (TFrances)

Bob Schrek: Jurassic Park: Redemption (Tom)

Mark Schultz: Tom Strong, Book5 (Mervi)

Chris Schweizer: Crogan's Loyalty (Nicola)

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Manga Edition (TFrances)

Hiroshi Shiibashi: 
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 5 (Nicola); Nura:Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 6 (Nicola); Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 7 (Nicola), Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 8 (Nicola)

Brian Smith: The Stuff of Legend #3: A Jester's Tale (Karissa); Voltron Force, vol. 1: Shelter From the Storm (Nicola)

Scott Snyder: 
American Vampire Vol.1 (Tom); American Vampire vol. 2 (Tom); Batman: Black Mirror (Tom); (Joe)

Kean Soo: Jellaby (Nicola); (Chris@Nerfreader); Jellaby:Monster in the City (Nicola)

Nadja Speigelman:  Zig and Wikki in the Cow (Tom); (Nicola)

Ashley Spires: Binky, The Space Cat (Karissa)


John Stanley:   Yow! Drawn & Quarterly Presents A "John Stanley Library" Grab-Bag for Free Comic Book Day 2010 (Nicola)


Roger Stern: Avengers: Under Siege (Mervi)

Studio Ghibli: 
The Secret World of Arrietty, vol. 1 (Nicola); The Secret World of Arrietty, vol. 2 (Nicola)


Mary M Talbot - Dotter of her Father's Eyes (Nicola)


Brandon Terrell: Riptide Pride (Nicola)

Yumi Tsukirino: 
Fluffy, Fluffy Cinamoroll, Vol.1 (Nicola); Fluffy, Fluffy, Cinnamoroll, vol. 2 (Nicola)

Sara Varon: Bake Sale (Karissa)


Zeb Wells: X-Men: Second Coming (Merv)

Scott Westerfield:
Ugly's: Shays Story (Karissa)

Joshua Williamson:  Xenoholics, Vol. 1 (Nicola)

Willingham, Bill: Fables #4: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Karissa) (Larissa); Fables #5: The Mean Seasons (Karissa); Fables #8: Wolves (Karissa); Fables #10: The Good Prince (Karissa); Fables #11: War and Pieces (Karissa); Fables #12: The Dark Ages (Karissa); Fables #16:Super Team (Kat)

Marv Wolfman: Teen Titans: Games (Jim Black)

Craig Yoe: Bob Powell's Terror, Vol. 2 (Kat)

Jane Yolen: The Last Dragon (Nicola); (Chris@NerfReader

Kiiro Yumi: Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 7 (Nicola