WHO'S ON TOP: GRAPHIC NOVELS

TOP 5 GRAPHIC NOVELS:

HARDCOVER:  

1. CEMETERY GIRL, BOOK 1, by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Don Kramer

2. BATMAN, VOL. 3, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

3. INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US, VOL. 1, by Tom Taylor and Jheremy Raapack

4. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY EARTH, by Isabel Greenberg

5. BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland

SPOTLIGHT:

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY EARTH

Isabel Greenberg

Before our history began, another now forgotten civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he paddles from his home in the North Pole to the South Pole. There, he meets his true love, but their romance is ill-fated. Early Earth's unusual and finicky polarity means the lovers can never touch.

As intricate and richly imagined as the work of Chris Ware, and leavened with a dry wit that rivals Kate Beaton's in Hark! A Vagrant, Isabel Greenberg's debut will be a welcome addition to the thriving graphic novel genre.

PAPERBACK:  

1. PERSEPOLIS, by Marjane Satrapi

2. FUN HOME, by Alison Bechdel

3. MAUS: A SURVIVOR’S TALE, VOL. 1, by Art Spiegelman

4. MARCH: BOOK ONE, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

5. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, by Julie Maroh

SPOTLIGHT:

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Julie Maroh

Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their attraction is instant and electric, and Clementine find herself in a relationship that will test her friends, parents, and her own ideas about herself and her identity.

First published in French by Belgium's Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe's largest. The film Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

MANGA:  

1. NARUTO, VOL. 64, by Masashi Kishimoto

2. MONSTER MUSUME, VOL. 2, by Okayado

3. ATTACK ON TITAN, VOL. 10, by Hajime Isayama

4. YU-GI-OH! ZEXAL, VOL. 4, by Shin Yoshida and Naohito Miyoshi

5. ATTACK ON TITAN, VOL. 1, by Hajime Isayama

SPOTLIGHT:

MONSTER MUSUME, VOL. 2

Okayado

It's bad enough that Kimhito is stuck hosting not one, not two, but threesexy Monster Girls--and is forbidden by law to touch any of them, no matter how much they come on to him--but now, he's going to have to marry one of them! Which will it be: the sensuous, serpentine Miia; Papi the Harpy, who has boundles enthusiaism and absolutely no personal boundaries; or the noble (and extremely busty) centaur, Centorea? Kimhito decides to get to know each one of these unearthly creatures a little better before he makes his choice--with disasterous results!

And that's not all the strange and titillating world of Monster Girls has in store for our hapless hero. See what new adventures, mishaps, and fan service await Kimhito in Volume 2 of Monster Musume!