Bone: One Volume Edition94 reviews Jeff Smith Cartoon Books, 2004 HUGE book, worth the read! + One of my favorites + Bone: One Volume Edition + Read the most critical reviews... Ignore them and buy the comic             Will Eisner's The Spirit8 reviews Darwyn Cooke, Jeph Loeb DC Comics, 2007 Awesome. + Darwyn Cooke brings The Spirit back to life + refreshing + Beautiful art, impractical dust jacket.             Sparks: An Urban Fairytale2 reviews Lawrence Marvit SLG Publishing, 2002 True Modern Fey + A Fantastic Tale into the Heart of a Woman and her Friend. This is a poignant, often sad fantasy about the life of a girl who considers herself a failure, leading a fairly miserable life even with her skills and a decent job. It truly lives up to its moniker of fairy tale, for it is as all good lore: Gritty, supernatural, with a few morals to impart and a ...             Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things18 reviews Ted Naifeh Oni Press, 2002 great art, fun writing + Graphic SF Reader + +++ I'd put it in the same category as "Bone" and "Sparks: An Urban Fairytale", for fun story-telling, great art, strong female protagonists, and sly humor. Also recommended for anyone who liked "Thief of Time" or "Something Wicked This Way Comes" as a kid.             Good-Bye, Chunky Rice (6th Printing)21 reviews Craig Thompson Top Shelf Productions, 2005 A Master-Piece! + Sweet, sweet, poignant and sweet + drifting + Poignant story of leaving and love             The Compleat Moonshadow15 reviews John Marc DeMatteis, Kent Williams, ... DC Comics, 1998 Compleat Indeed! + Muth's best + Startling work, a unique masterpiece. + Better reading + A work of art             Box Office Poison34 reviews Alex Robinson Top Shelf Productions, 2001 All I can say is Wow... + Real People, Real Story, Real Art + This is as good a time as I've had... + Friends + Irving Flavor             Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile48 reviews Bill Willingham Vertigo, 2002 Decent detective story + Off to a Great Start + Very Good But Not Spectacular Start + Fairy Tale characters in the real world...             Pedro and Me36 reviews Judd Winick Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2000 funny-sad-moving + "Pedro and Me" is poignant and powerful. + A truly touching portrait... + Wonderfully haunting.. + AWESOME!!!             Lio: Happiness Is a Squishy Cephalopod10 reviews Mark Tatulli Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2007 Can't wait for the next book! + Lio + Wonderfully dark! + SSH's Review #2 + Lio: Happiness is a squishy cephalopod             Blankets122 reviews Craig Thompson Top Shelf Productions, 2003 Get your emo kleenex out. + I really enjoyed this! + Beautiful story with appropriate illustrations + Delightfully painful             American Elf Volume 1: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries Of James Kochalka5 reviews James Kochalka Top Shelf Productions, 2004 His Best Work Yet! + An Artist's Life - As An Elf + more kochalka + Sha-zammm! + rhythms of life....             Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction (Hellboy (Graphic Novels))34 reviews Mike Mignola, John Byrne Dark Horse, 2003 fantastic + Surprisingly Great Story; Weak Binding + Great Book + Less reviewing, more buying. + I LOVE HELLBOY!!             Torso14 reviews Marc Andreyko Image Comics, 2001 My first Bendis, Won't be my Last! + 1930s Serial Killer Stalks Cleveland + Very Good. Well Paced and Reads Likea A Novel I've heard good things about Brian Michael Bendis and finally got around to reading one of his works. Torso is a graphic novel that tells the true-crime story of a 1930s serial killer at work in Cleveland, Ohio, who leaves mutilated bodies around town with feet, hands and heads removed. At the ...             Black Hole42 reviews Charles Burns Pantheon, 2005 One of the best books i've ever read + Blackest Despair captured brilliantly in comic form + Teenage Wasteland This is not only an incredible graphic novel, filled with top notch and telling illustrations, it's also one of the best written pieces of modern fiction that I've read. It captures the fear, insecurity, confusion, sexuality, and perversion of high school and teenage life in an incredibly detailed ...             The Three Paradoxes3 reviews Paul Hornschemeier Fantagraphics, 2006 Good Trip + One to ponder... Ok, so everyone's favorite game these days is to bash Hornshemeier for being a Ware ripoff. Honestly, people either aren't looking close enough or completely miss the point. I found his latest collection of work to be profoundly gripping and fluid in a way that I don't think I've ever read ...             The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture25 reviews Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2007 Totally absolutely loved it + Wonderfull! + Really cool book. + A marvelous, "Maus"- like work of art!             Castle Waiting15 reviews Linda Medley Fantagraphics, 2006 An amusing foray into the fantastic + Castle Waiting is wonderful! + First Graphic Novel + A Castle of Enchantment - Bookwyrm Chrysalis Review + Only the Beginning             The Goon Volume 1: Nothin' But Misery (Goon (Graphic Novels))8 reviews Eric Powell Dark Horse, 2003 Superior Comic Book Making + I laughed, I gasped until my eyes bugged out + Great fun but too similar to Hellboy + Dark Horse hit a Homerun picking Powell up. + Great stuff             The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book92 reviews Bill Watterson Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1995 "I've tried to return some of the fun, magic, and beauty I've enjoyed in other comics. " + This guy is a philosopher! + An essential addition to the essential comic strip + He's a little preachy + Love this book