This past week I read ‘Kerry and the Knight of the Forest’ by Andi Watson it was a delightfully thick YA graphic novel that reaches over 260 pages. The story is about a boy named Kerry who gets lost in the woods and a waystone helps him find his way out of the forest.

‘Baba Yaga’s Assistant’ was geared towards the young adult audience, but at the same time had some pretty adult themes of the death of family members, while discussing the importance of finding one’s own life path based on the values and wisdom established by multi-generational households.

One of my favorite things about this is the repartee between characters. It is reminiscent of the 90s in the sense that the original Image Comics superhero teams were built from a similar story premise and the 90s movies were also a great era of witty banter.

I really enjoyed ‘The Return of Thelma the Unicorn.’ It read like a poem and the illustrations were entertaining for kids and fun to look at for adults as there were enough visual jokes and references that gave me a chuckle.

Frankly, I was very impressed by the quality of the story. I immediately connected with the characters and found the story’s backdrop of Eastern Africa engaging. Beserat is great at instilling some cultural-specific terms and actions that serve as a nod to his Ethiopian audience and as a cross-cultural educational piece for an uninitiated western audience.

I have always been a cat person, so I found the game itself a delight to read. I do not know Bellingham personally, but it is greatly apparent that he loves cats and the magic system he created for cats is fun and creative.

I really appreciated how the writers and artists utilized Baum’s original series and did not rely on the more well-known film version of the characters. The writers of the stories also understood many of the characters and lands in the 13-book series, including people like the Shaggy Man and Ozma.

I wanted to first thank all of my guests for being a part of my podcast. When I started it at the beginning of last February, I had no idea that we were going to be facing such a tough year.

Talking to them has been equal parts inspiration, social connection, and therapeutic. I have been consistently humbled and encouraged by the conversations and I am looking forward to seeing where next year will take us. In our inaugural year, we were able to produce 50 shows!

As a reader, I became connected to the world before I was connected to the characters. At the end of the book, I was really excited to see more. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a volume 2. Not sure if Zander Cannon even made one

This past week we interviewed Beserat Debebe from Etan Comics. I had a great time talking with him about his new Kickstarter project, Hawi (Issue 2).

I also attempted to interview the famed Scott Serkland of Serkworks Lab, but my internet was acting funky so I postponed the interview for later in the weekend.

I haven’t read the x-men since the mid 90’s (shortly after the Age of Apocalypse event) and with this reboot, I decided to give it a go again. 

I read the first for issues of the six titles that have come out and I ranked them from the one I will continue to read to the ones I will stop reading.