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(Part 2 by Janee Trasler! Both comics courtesy of Dos Juanas!)

(from Jana’s extracurricular blog project with friend Janee, Dos Juanas. Bookmark that one, too!)

A nature tale about wetlands survival and the cycle of life unfolds as a suspense thriller, complete with a murder conspiracy and a plot twist involving just who really is the villain in the tale. Carol and Matt Dembicki’s “Mr. Big” delivers in its revelation of nature as an unsentimental and logical system that still [...]

The 1970s was a great decade for weird science fiction — in fact, it was probably the last time that clunky pluck and scrappy strangeness combined with doom and gloom social satire in order to create some real oddities. By 1977, “Star Wars” had ushered in a more facile and flashy vision of science fiction [...]

In “The Ride Home,” Joey Weiser brings the fairy tale beings of a world long gone into the modern one with rollicking results.
Nodo, the van gnome (that is, a gnome who inhabits a family van, as one might have inhabited the forest or a bridge or something in legends) is happy in his vehicle, but [...]

It’s an old lesson, but one that each generation has to learn for itself in its own way — be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
For a kid, that sounds like a promise, to be sure, but any adult with his or her fair share of realistic luck — that is, [...]

I went through that phase, the one I imagine many others do, where you begin to believe that Charles Schulz and his comic strip “Peanuts” is trite. The funny thing is that it’s not the comic strip that actually brings you to this conclusion — it’s the over exposure. You trudge through life being mentally [...]

The second release in Toon Books’ new line of easy reader graphic novels, “Silly Lilly,” is a charming affair by French author/illustrator Agnes Rosenstiehl. In a series of seasonal sketches, a young girl named Lilly is followed through her reactions to the changes.
That’s a funny thing about being a kid — before you are really [...]

Kaput and Zosky are aliens of the worst kind, with only three things on their minds — killing, killing and killing. Aside from that fixation, their only real goal is to dominate a world — any world — and their only real preference is to do so in the most violent, painful, awful way possible. [...]

In “Jack and the Beanstalk,” a boy reached the sky via a giant vegetable plant and a world of human-centric wonder was revealed. “The Clouds Above” skews all that , with a mysterious junky staircase leading a cat named Jack and a boy name Simon (who’s hardly simple) to another world of wonder, but this [...]