Chad Roe, the CEO of the Eter-No-Mark marker corporation, comes under financial peril and public scrutiny when he is sued because vandals have covered the city with graffiti via his indelible markers. This sends Chad into a downward spiral, and a night of heavy debauchery. When he awakes the next morning, he finds that he has been “tattooed” from head to toe by his own product.
Chad’s nightmare bleeds into one of a larger scale–the next day is September 11, 2001. Plagued by anxiety about the recent events, the newfound social outcast hits the road, and travels across the country, carousing and meeting new people.
Can’t Get No is a post-modern story about a man trying to find himself in unsure times. Chad’s character seeks to find redemption in an unforgiving world,and the reader must decide - does his character deserve to be forgiven? Dark, complex and strange, this graphic novel would best suit an adult audience with its intricate writing and mature themes. An unusual read, Can’t Get No is a wonderfully esoteric view of our modern world and society.
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In this second volume of this highly popular manga, serialized in the magazine Shojo Beat, enthusiastic and naive Nana Komatsu moves to Tokyo to live with her boyfriend, Shoji. It is on the train there that she meets tough-girl Nana Osaki. When the two get to the city, they part ways. Nana K. decides to stay with Shoji until she can get her own place, though after a bit, their living situation makes her apprehensive.
Emboldened by her move, Nana K. seeks out her own place and finds the perfect apartment. When she goes to see it, another person–Nana O.–is also there to see the same apartment. Struck by the serendipity of the moment, the girls decide to share the place.
A story about two girls who are total opposites, trying to make it in a city by themselves for the first time Nana is an excellent shojo (girls’) series, that unlike many of the other sugary shojo stories, offers real substance to its reader.
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An intertwining tale of two magical and troubled lives, Ruby is a gripping mix of fantasy and reality.
Ruby has always been different. Not just because she hides things.
She sees things. She hears things. She knows things. Her father has always ignored it. But she knows it’s real.
She moves across the country, to LA, to take a job as a nanny. She wants to be able to leave herself behind. An ex-boyfriend shows up at her employer’s door. Some things are easier said than done.
She leave LA and travels to England. Here the magic is stronger than ever. In the midst of what feels like only lies, she finds a family, her dream, and even herself. What started as a good cover story turns into a reality, freeing her from life-long demons.
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Geeky Reed Richards is not having an easy time in high school. Brainy, but bullied, he relies on the help of burly best friend Ben Grimm. When Reed unwittingly enters his teleportation device in the school science fair, his life is forever changed when his is then recruited to an elite government school for gifted kids.
At his new school he meets Sue and Johnny Storm and his future nemesis Victor Van Damme. Victor and Reed are both equally smart and very competitive and butt heads over conflicting ideals. Skip ahead five years later and now Reed is working out in Nevada with Sue, Johnny and Victor on a large-scale teleporation project. Just before they make their test run, old friend Ben Grimm reappears to help. When the project goes mysteriously and horribly awry, the four find themselves mutated, each with a different power, in which for some, is an incredibly difficult adjustment.
The Fantastic Four is a classic tale of angst and not fitting in, and how in one day, in one moment, everything can change. Fans of other Ultimate titles may enjoy this volume, though fans of the recent Fantastic Four movie may be disappointed due to the differing storylines. Regardless, this volume is an action packed superhero romp and a great introduction to this classic team.
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Tom Henderson’s life is full of unusual trials, chief among them, perhaps, being the unfortunate nickname thrust upon him in seventh grade. As if it weren’t bad enough that he’s a geek, and has only one real friend, and that’s only really because of the alphabet.
His father died when he was young, his mother is in a constant self-induced state of unawareness, his step-father tried too hard, and his sister seems to have alternate personalities. School is even worse.
After the accidental pummeling of one of his chief tormentors, he gets a small boost in reputation, but it doesn’t last. Girls? Well, after his one incredible experience at a party, all he’s left with is someone who seems not to exist. His life becomes all about mysteries and riddles.
While searching for a book in his basement, he stumbles upon what he comes to call the CEH library–books owned and read by his father throughout the sixties. Mystery number 1: What really happened to him?
But this isn’t enough to hold Tom over…he can’t stop obsessing over his mystery girl either. Mystery number 2: Who was she and where is she now?
Amidst all the questions is the constant renaming of his band with his alphabetical friend, Sam Hellerman. Both having received instruments as early Christmas presents, they even get to start trying to play as a band…though it proves much more difficult than either was expecting. They get incredible points for creativity, however.
Lost in a whirlwind of questions, and seemingly alone in a world of Catcher Cult members, just where will our King Dork end up?
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Living in the projects with a drugged-out dad and a mom who’s never there, Iggy Corso has had a tough life. So when he’s kicked out of school for a misunderstanding, Iggy decides that he’s going to do something good–something so good that it makes the papers and everyone will welcome him back and see what a great person he is. Iggy sets out with his friend Mo–a wealthy older boy who has “denounced” his wealth and lives in squalor–to help him find his good deed. Mo has gotten in some trouble with Freddie, the same drug dealer who supplies to Iggy’s parents. Mo owes Freddie a large amount money for some drugs, and he goes back to his affluent neighborhood to ask his mom for money, and brings Iggy along. Mo’s mom tries to help Iggy, and there he gets more ideas about his potential heroic act.
When Iggy finally formalizes a plan to carry out his good deed, everything becomes chaotic and confusing, up to the final shocking scene that ends the novel.
Poignant and moving, Saint Iggy is a gripping tale of a boy who can’t get a break, no matter what he does. Reading this book will put its reader through the entire gamut of strong emotions: anger, sadness, anticipation and fear. A book that everyone should read, Saint Iggy will give its reader something to think and talk about long after they’ve finished the novel. These are characters that won’t let you go–and you won’t want to let them go yourself.
Fanboy (aka Donnie to his mom) wants three things in this life: a copy of Giant Size X-Men #1; a chance to meet Brian Michael Bendis and show him his own graphic novel, Schemata; and a third thing that he won’t tell anyone, because he’s afraid it won’t happen. Beat up in gym, ignored in school by his best friend, and dealing with his new stepdad and pregnant mom, Fanboy is just waiting to go to the Comic Con where he can finally meet Bendis and show him Schemata (which he just knows Bendis will love).
Enter Kyra, a goth girl with a mysterious past and a totally destructive attitude. The two form an unexpected friendship when she sees him getting pounded on in dodgeball, as the teacher stands oblivious talking to someone else. As the two precariously try to get through the daily grind of high school, they learn that the things that they want aren’t always as important as they’ve thought them to be.
A hilarious story, Fanboy and Goth Girl has a little fan-service in it for all comic book fans, geeks, goths, and those who just feel invisible and overlooked in high school. Full of angst and anxiety and humor, this is definitely one of the best books of 2006. Look for it in October, when it hits the stands (and the library!)
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Leo Caraway considers himself to be at a slight disadvantage. You see, he has a genetic hijacker in his bloodstream–and how can he be held responsible? He knows nothing about the man who contributed half of his DNA, other than his name, which he really only stumbled onto by chance. Until he reads his best friend’s English Term Paper, that is.
After years of unanswered questions from his mother, Leo learns one simple internet search would have given him all he wanted to know. McMurphy, the genetic hijacker, just so happens to be the front man for one of Punk Rock’s all-time beloved bands–Purge. And as fate would have it, right on top of this discovery comes the news that Purge is reuniting for a tour. With his scholarship to Harvard lost to him (and unfairly at that), Leo concludes the only thing to do is find and confront this King Maggot and try to get the money from him.
In an unlikely turn of events, Leo goes from Young Republican (which was actually an unlikely event in itself) to Roadie, landing a summer job with Purge. With his mother in denial, his father having confronted the King to ensure his safety on the trip, and his best friend no longer speaking to him, off he goes.
Along the way, he learns quite a bit, though not all that much about being a Roadie. Nothing turns out at all how he’d imagined, but in the end, it’s actually all for the better.
Very quick and funny read, from the first sentence to the last.
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Ruben Ford has always felt things. Other people’s thoughts, other people’s feelings… It makes him different, but he’s never minded it, really. Until the night he’s alone in the backseat of a car in the rain, and alone in the dark on a deserted moor with his sister Rachel, about to be dead.
The police don’t seem to know what they’re doing when it comes to investigating Rachel’s death. Ruben’s brother, Cole, has taken to assaulting the press, and his mother just wants to be able to bury her daughter. With their father in jail, the boys knows it’s up to them.
Cole sets his mind to going out to where it all happened, and following in Rachel’s footsteps. Ruben sets his mind on going with him, with or without Cole’s approval. Along the way they uncover a great deal–about themselves, about their past, about life, and the conspiracy of events into the middle of which their sister just happened to fall.
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When her sister Azalea is exchanged with a Changeling, suddenly the stories Poison has read all her life become real. With the help of Fleet, the only person in the marshes to understand her, Poison sets off to get her sister back.
So begins a journey from the realm of man to the realm of phaerie, from certainty to illusion, from youth to…
Along the way, unlikely friendships are formed and enemies are earned, and the many mysteries Poison has always puzzled over slowly unravel into an even more mystifying reality.
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