Months ago, the Queen mentions to me that her Library (she's head of her town's library board & volunteers there every week) has a huge selection of graphic novels located in the "Teen" fiction section. Today, when Slick and I were at ours, we looked. Sure enough, they had a huge collection of Manga and a decent sized selection of Graphic Novels.
I read the first tonight. Titled Identity Crisis, it's a murder mystery involving the Justice League. Imagine someone knows the identities of all the superheroes and decides to target and kill their loved-ones. Imagine that the murders are so well-orchestrated that it perplexes them all, even Batman. Who will die next? What lengths will the heroes go through to protect their own?
Under this mystery lies another one, perhaps even darker than one than the threat of more deaths. How far do capes really go to protect their identities? How many lies are told to protect Truth, Justice & the families behind the mask?
Brad Meltzer scribes a masterpiece. Rags Morales & Michael Bair bring it to life. Check for it at your local library. If they don't have it, then it's totally worth the money to buy it for your own collection. It was so good, I'm almost sorry I know the ending now.
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Our local library has the same section but with a dearth of DC/Marvel options. Mostly it is Japanese manga. I tried one at random (picked the first issue of a random set) and I was thoroughly confused.
There is some weird shit happening in those books. I've got to find a "introduction to manga" list and start reading one of those.
BTW, check out the books on tape, novels, and videos in that section. That's where all the cool stuff is located in our library...Buffy, Firefly, Artemis Fowl, etc.
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