Graphic Novel Review: The Unwanted by Diablo, Mark Michaels, Juan Romera, and Jason Arthur

**Cross posted from the ML Vault.** Diablo Publications, 2008 ISBN: N/A Availability: New, Used and digital             In The Unwanted, a demon is inadvertently released in a juvenile detention center when a staffer brings home an amulet from Tibet.  As the demon proceeds to hunt down the kids, a teacher in the juvenile detention center and […]

Graphic Novel Review: Weirdling by Mike Dubisch

**Cross posted from the ML Vault** Strange Fear, 2007 ISBN:  978097898113 Available: New     Anna Mandretta is a crew member on a space ship in the middle of fighting a war against the alien Xax.   She starts dreaming that she is a famous surgeon at Miskatonic Hospital centuries earlier dealing with a child who is […]

Graphic Novel Review: Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith

**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Dark Horse Books, 2004 ISBN: 1569719357 Available: New and Used     Criminal Macabre introduces us to Cal McDonald, a hard-drinking, drug-using detective with a ghoul sidekick by the name of Mo’lock.  McDonald has to uncover who is behind a plot to turn the usual Vampires and Werewolves of Los Angles into super […]

Graphic Novel Review: Hack/Slash: The First Cut by Tim Seeley, Stefano Caselli, and Federica Manfredi

**Reposted from our archives** Devil’s Due Publishing, October 31, 2005 ISBN:   1932796428 Available: New and Used     A collection  of the first few Hack/Slash stories put out by Devil’s Due. Hack and Slash follow the adventures of Cassie Hack the daughter of a Slasher (think Michael Meyer) who has dedicated her life to track down […]

Graphic Novel Review: Road of Bones by Rich Douek, art by Alex Cormack

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IDW, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684055982 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology  ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It’s 1953. Roman Ivanovich Morozov is a prisoner in the Siberian gulag of Kolyma for slandering Stalin, given 25 years of hard labor as punishment. He and his fellow prisoners are forced to work in harsh conditions. If the frozen […]

Graphic Novel Review: Spectre Deep 6 by Jennifer Brody and Jules Rivera

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Spectre Deep 6 by Jennifer Brody and Jules Rivera Turner, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684424139 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Spectre Deep 6 tells the story of a diverse team of black ops called “Spectres”, an elite squad of soldiers who died in the line of duty and were reanimated by military scientists […]

Graphic Novel Review: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

**Reposted from the Circulation Desk.** Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781946335319 Available: Paperback  ( Bookshop.org ) Prince Prospero, trying to avoid a deadly plague, the Red Death, ravaging the land, walls himself up inside his abbey along with a number of other wealthy nobles. To combat the boredom, the prince hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms […]