by Stjepan Šejić Death Vigil volume 1 was a nicely put together graphic novel with an intriguing plot and interesting characters. It was fast paced and there was always something happening, which also made it hard to stop reading. It’s dark and humorous and the characters are well developed. I read this as an e-comic, and at time I found some of the dialogue to be a bit hard to read, but I have a feeling it might be because of the resolution of the e-copy. It may be a lot better in the hardcopy. I can say that I did feel like the ending was a bit rushed and I would have loved for the author to spend a few more pages there to really wrap up this great story, but overall I truly enjoyed it. It’s well worth checking out. You can pre-order it at Amazon
by Tom Hoefner The Unlikely Adventures of Race & Cookie McCloud: Curses and Tacos is the second book in a series and I’ve also done a review on the first if you want to check that one out too. After really enjoying the first book in this series, I hoped this one would be just as fun as the first, and I was not disappointed at all. This second novel picks up right where the first one left us with a huge cliffhanger and now we’re tossed right into the action where the two main characters has to get along with two hilarious vampires in order to take down a werewolf. The characters, Race and Cookie, keep developing and you start to get the feeling that they are starting to enjoy working together, despite the fact that they are immensely different. I truly enjoy reading about these two and listen to all of their harmless banter as the story goes on. Their somewhat dysfunctional relationship is entertaining and makes this story humorous despite the fact that it’s dealing with monsters and what could be rather dark topics if written for YA or adults. Just as the first book in the…
