books: comics & graphic novels - top sellers     books:       A People's History of American Empire Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, ... Metropolitan Books, 2008 A People's History of American Empire This book is everything I thought it would be and more. I recommend it to all but be prepared to become angry with the stories Zinn shares. The service by the vendor was great too. It was in perfect shape and delivered quickly.             Batman: The Killing Joke Alan Moore, Brian Bolland DC Comics, 2008 And the joke's on... who? Batman is my comic book. These are the characters I keep coming back to, the Killing Joke is a great stop along the way. The Joker is perfect in this book. He's laughing, joking, even doing a song and dance routine, and he's dead serious throughout everything. ...             Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) Jeff Kinney Amulet Books, 2008 Diary of a Wimpy Kid I am a reading specialist for an elementary school. The hardest thing I have is getting kids into a book. Diary of a Wimpy Kid has done it. One student in my class read and bragged about and now all of them want to read it. I read it before letting the kids after ...             The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 Charles M. Schulz Fantagraphics, 2008 "Nyah to you, Lucy! And nyah to you, too, Charlie Brown!" 1967 and 1968 were both great years in Peanuts. This was sort of the beginning of the Peanuts gang of the "later" days. Many of the cartoons found their way in You'll Flip, Charlie Brown, You're Something Else, Charlie Brown, You're You, Charlie Brown and You've Had ...             The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need Daniel H. Pink Riverhead Trade, 2008 Dan Pink at his creative best Dan Pink took his own advice from A Whole New Mind and created a career guide that is spot on for a generation that makes its own rules. (Rule #1, always know where your phone is and answer every call or text or Tweet.) Even if you don't "get it", give a copy to every ...             Watchmen Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons DC Comics, 1995 There Was Something Magic Back Then... I can remeber it all so clearly, picking up "Watchmen" for the first time in the late 80's...shortly after devouring Frank Miller's "The Dark Night Returns". The Watchmen treats us all like adults, and gives us the depth, detail, artistry, and excellence that ...             In Odd We Trust Dean Koontz Del Rey, 2008 “The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the ...             The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 The Censors Win One In hindsight, censorship so often seems ridiculous. It seems silly now that anyone was trying to keep readers from reading _Tom Jones_ a couple of centuries ago, or that seventy years ago, movies could not show married people sharing a double bed. A less familiar ...             Warriors: Warrior's Return (Warriors) Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley TokyoPop, 2008 Good, but not Totally Satisfying This book/comic was good, and i really liked some of the drawings, but parts of it seemed to not completely follow through with the other books. Mainly The Sight, in which Graystripe and Millie were attacked when they were at the gathering. However, in this book, ...             Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 4th Grade Class Top Ten Winner Our review is for the book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It was written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. The Genre is a graphic Novel, With comedy Gregory Heffley is a wimpy kid. He has a little brother Manny and an older brother Rodrick. They both ruin everything ...             Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller DC Comics, 1997 Masterpiece Miller's version of Batman reflects Bob Kane's concept about the Dark Knight: a brooding, lonely crimefighter, obsessed by his parents' death. "The Dark Knight Returns" is a cornerstone: it redefines the essence of the character, finally obliterating the facetious ...             Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home Joss Whedon, Andy Owens Dark Horse Comics, 2007 Graphic SF Reader This is great. At least until the investigate the fate of one of Buffy's doubles issue, but Whedon totally nails this for the story arc part, and the art is pretty reasonable, too, if a little shakier on some of the minor characters like Andrew, etc. With ...             The Crass Menagerie: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Stephan Pastis Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008 Price per cartoon, plus quality, makes this volume a bargain! Do you ever wonder what goes through a cartoonist's head (assuming they have one) when they concoct those cartoons? In the The Crass Menagerie, Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis shares his thoughts, trials, and tribulations for many of his strips. ...             Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2004 Excellent... "Persepolis" is a great read. In less than two hours, you'll know more about Iranian history than you probably ever did. I, for one, felt positively ignorant as I learned of the Shah, the Islamic revolution, the Communist sympathizers... all told through the eyes of a ...             X-Men: Messiah Complex Mike Carey, Ed Brubaker, ... Marvel Comics, 2008 The biggest event to hit the X-Men in ten years is here! Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren't there to meet it - The Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since House of M! Collects X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot, Uncanny ...          products you might be interested in search for books 1967-1968, adventures, childhood, comic-book, menagerie, persepolis we recommend There Was Something Magic Back Then... randomly chosen music: Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream / McNair, Asawa, Lloyd, Bostridge, ...