This book was described to me by the author as "Betty and Veronica meets Breaking Bad". Competing cliques at an all-girls school strive to outsell each other in an annual bake sale, but each team is willing to play dirty by adding a highly addictive ingredient.

A wonderfully strange first graphic novel by a well known children's book author. Fifty people are summoned in the middle of the night to the castle when the queen of their island dies. They learn that there is to be a contest to determine the new grand leader. The contestants are a mixed bunch- a witch, a priest, a warrior, a lawyer, many courtiers and the Kite Lord's daughter. They are magically flung across the land and struggle to make their way back in time to escape a deadly enchantment. A dark book with flares of quirky humor. I enjoyed it, and am curious to see where the story goes in later volumes.

Carla Speed McNeil is a master in her own created genre of aboriginal sci-fi. If you haven't yet picked up her astonishingly good Finder series I would urge you to start with the first book, as this is not a good place to start. It is, however, a delicious treat for those who have read the 1400 or so preceding pages. Jaeger is unsatisfied with his current lot in life and so decides to take on a Real Job. He winds up as a delivery boy at X-Ray's Courier service, and against the odds he is astonishingly good at it. He finds shortcuts in the city that should not exist, and manages to deliver packages to people who he should never have been able to find. He becomes so skilled that he attracts the attention of the upper management- and it turns out that excelling in this position may have been the worst mistake of his life. It's wonderful to dip into this rich world in full color. This is, both for art and for writing, one of my favorite comic series of all time.

This book packs a pretty big punch of heavy sci-fi into a short 88 pages of comics. Aria is stranded on an earth of warring tribes. She and her cat Jelly Bean dodge hunters and vicious dogs as they scavenge food and tinker with their broken mecha. Aria, inexplicably, has tools of a modern age- toothpaste, electricity, a motocycle, a wrist tracker- though the hunters roaming the ravaged city are dressed in rags and skins. There's a lot more going on here than first meets the eye. Beautifully drawn, if somewhat abrupt in the pacing and ending.

This is one of the best wordless comic books I've ever read. It manages to convey a complex and emotional narrative through careful, detailed black and white drawings. Three friends build and supply a wooden ship and set out to sea, searching for an unknown but longed for home. Full of strange twists, beautiful and sorrowful.

I went into this book knowing that it is essentially a collection of bits and pieces- I had previously read almost a third of the material in other formats. "Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains" and "The Sleeper and The Spindle" have both been released as illustrated short-of children's books; I think I read "The Return of the Thin White Duke" on Gaiman's blog; "Feminine Endings" and several of the poems were all included on the two disc set of recordings entitled "An Evening with Neil and Amanda". No matter. I think this is my favorite Gaiman short story collection to date. Perhaps seeing old friends, such as his excellent Sherlock Holmes story "The Case of Death and Honey", was what endeared this one to me over Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things - to my mind those two books contain clunkers and gems in equal measure. The star attraction of Trigger Warnings for most will likely be the new story about Shadow Moon- it is the only one original to this collection and it does not disappoint. I also love Gaimen's habit of including one paragraph in the introduction about where and when each story is from. These stories about the stories give the weaker ones a little more weight, and only add to the pleasure of the stronger stories.

This book took me over five months to read because I got really angry in the middle and set it down for two months. I likely won't have finished it except that my reading buddy finished it and told me it was worth it. I did mostly enjoy it in the end, but would be unlikely to recommend it, in protest over the bad treatment of the only two female characters.

The setting was my favorite part. Corey did a fantastic job of developing slang and cultural norms for a solar system in which humans have colonized every rock and hollowed out moon. The main character, Miller, is a cop born and raised on Ceres. His life spins out of control when a missing persons case takes him to Eros and the site of the worst bio-terrorist act in human history.

This book is a gorgeous piece of art. It contains the full lyrics of the multi-award-winning musical Hamilton as well as beautiful full page photos from the original cast performances. It also has a series of chronological essays about the development of the show and insights on it's creators. Lin-Manuel Miranda's footnotes add extra touches of humor and backstage knowledge.

Brian K Vaughan's latest comic series is as witty and inventive as any he's written. This one opens with four girls delivering the daily newspapers on "hell morning", the morning after Halloween. But there are real monsters far worse than drunk teens roaming the streets this November 1st. Beautifully drawn, fast paced and full of cliff hangers.