Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I
am doing a quick little comic book slash
graphic novel book haul. I have been on a
bit of a graphic novel buying kick. I
went to a comic shop the first time
in like a long time the other day, and I
went crazy. And I haven't been really
buying and reading graphic novels with
the same level of velocity, I don't know
if that's right word, as I have in past. So
I went a little crazy, I went a little
crazy. I've got a bunch of graphic novels
and one comic that I wanted to share
with you guys. And quick little jargon
overview: I tend to refer to anything
that is not a comic magazine as a
graphic novels, that's what I'm talking
about here. Let's get into it. The first
book that I have for you is one that I
have already finished and I really liked
it, and that is Monstress by Marjorie Liu
and Sana Takeda. Liu is the
writer, Takeda is the artist. I don't...
I'm not... I don't really know how to
describe it. I'll say it's like a kind of
steampunk, not traditional steampunk, but
it also takes place in the society
that's clearly like East Asian inspired.
It's scary. This is more of a horror comic
than I expected. It's called Monstress,
I probably should have figure that out.
I didn't realize going in just how
creepy it would be, but really liked this,
and I have ordered volume 2. So I am
really excited to continue this series.
Next I have a comic and this is, in fact,
the first comic that I've ever bought. I
always go for graphic novels, trade
paperbacks, that kind of thing. But I'm so
excited about this series, which just
came out this year, I think like early,
early 2017 is when it was released, and
so I got myself issue number one. I think
they have three issues out in total now.
I should probably what it is and it is
Victor Lavelle's Destroyer. And so what
this is, the concept of this is that
Frankenstein's monster is real, like
Frankenstein's long dead but the monster
survives. And then another storyline that
you've got going on is this brilliant,
brilliant black female scientist, her son
is shot and killed by police, so she
reanimates his body
a la Frankenstein. And then these two
storylines collide. I am so excited to
read this. I think it's really
interesting and current and the art is so
cool. I'm realizing now we're two for
two on the horror comics, and I'm a
chicken. We'll see how this goes. Even if
I get too scared, I'm very excited to
read this. Next up I have volume one of Paper Girls
by Brian K Vaughn and Cliff Chiang. I'm so
excited about this!
It's about 1980s newspaper delivery
girls who accidentally cause a rift in
time... That sounds amazing!
I've heard really good things about this
series. It's kind of been all over the
place because Brian K Vaughn is such a big
name in comics right now. I'm super
pumped. I've heard it's got some Stranger
Things vibes, so I will have this series
to tide me over as I like pace the
floor waiting for season 2 of Stranger
Things to come out, which I'm so excited
about. Next I have Giant Days volume one
by John Allison and Lissa Treiman. I'm
so pumped for this. Maddy over at The Book
Pusher, who I will link to, she was raving
about this series. I think she's read a
couple volumes of it. I only have volume
one, but whatever. To my knowledge it's
just like about a group of friends in
college, no crazy stuff going on, no
fantasy, sci-fi elements. I did a quick
little flip through and the art looks so
cool and fun. This just looks like a
super, super, super fun read! So excited to--
Ow! I just took myself in the face. I am
just so pumped to pick this up it, looks
like it's gonna be just like pure fun.
And next I have two volumes and they are
six and seven in the Saga series by
Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples. if you
don't know what this is, where have you
been. This is one of the hottest comic
series right now. I have kind of fallen
behind. Obviously I have read up to like
five so I picked up 6 & 7.
I'm so excited to read these. This series
is like a funny, graphically violent,
sometimes
has sexual content, space opera about
two warring worlds, or it's one a warring
planet and its moon, and they have these
proxy wars on other planets now. It's
about two people from opposing sides who
fall in love and have a child, and
everyone's out to get them because they
don't want this like symbol of unity out
in the galaxy, and it's it's amazing. I
love this series so much, and I am so, so,
so excited to continue reading it. Next I
have a book by one of my all-time
favorite authors. I also just think the
title slash concept of this is amazing,
and it is How to Talk to Girls at
Parties by Neil Gaiman, my fave. I just
love everything he touches.
Fabio moon and Gabriel Ba, Bah? I'm
not sure.
I should check the name. I never check author names. That is a habit that I
should probably break, considering I, you
know, do the booktube camera thing and
I'm talking about these books. We'll solve
that problem later. Anyway, to my
knowledge this book is about two guys
who go to a party, and there's like these
cool, hot ladies, but it turns out that
they're actually aliens, and I'm so
excited. And they're making a movie out
of it, and I know Nicole Kidman's gonna
be in it and Elle Fanning is gonna be in
it. It sounds dope! So, gotta read the book
before you see it. I don't even know when
it's coming out. I haven't seen the
trailer, yet but I'm pretty optimistic
that I'm gonna love this. And lastly I
have Locke and Key volume one by Joe Hill
and Gabriel Rodriguez. This is another
horror one, I think. I'm getting all these
horror comics. I'm a bit worried for myself.
I'm going to have trouble sleeping in the
coming months, I think. Anyway, this, I
again don't really know how to describe.
I should say I started reading this
years and years and years ago on a
digital copy that a friend sent to me. It
was all kinds of weird, like the
software that I was using to read it
didn't work very well so it was just not
a great reading experience. So I fell off the
train a bit, and I hadn't picked it up
since and I don't remember what happened.
So I am starting from scratch, and I
picked this bad boy up. I read like two
or three volumes of this. I should know
the basic premise, but it's just, it's
gone. So that is it! All of the comics and
graphic novels I've recently purchased. I
am so excited to like get back on the
train here when it comes to graphic
novels and comics. I love them! I love
reading them. It's so much fun.
They're so good. There's so much just raw
talent when it comes to art and story
and writing and it's just... I love it all. I
love it all! One downside to getting into
comics is because there are these
ongoing series, or you know even
completed series but there's like 20
volumes, that's a lot of, that's a lot of dough. So
we'll see how unhappy my bank is with
this decision, but right now current
Emily is super happy about it! Thanks so
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