Teen Read Month Read Beyond Reality Tournament!
In a very close vote, Ninjas beat Vampires and Fairies beat Zombies!
So this week it’s:
NINJAS vs FAIRIES!
This could actually be a close match, power wise.
Ninja are fast, have a variety of powers (real and illusion), but they are mortal.
Fairies can vary in size from inches to human size, have [...]
October 26, 2009
Categories: Books, Graphic novels, library, manga . Tags: Fairies, Ninjas, Teen read month, tournament . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
Teen Read Month Read Beyond Reality Tournament!
NINJAS vs VAMPIRES!
Will Recca’s flames toast the vampires? Or will he be overwhelmed by the strength and speed of the Vampires of the Cross Academy? Maybe they will be outnumbered by the bunshin of Naruto? Or perhaps Karin will… okay I can’t really see her fighting, [...]
October 22, 2009
Categories: Graphic novels, manga . Tags: Chibi Vampire, Fairies, Flame of Recca, Karin, Naruto, Ninjas, Recca, Vampire Academy, vampires, zombies . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
Teen Read Month Read Beyond Reality Tournament!
ROBOTS vs FAIRIES!
The Good Neighbors by Holly Black and Ted Naifah tends to make me think of a Terry Pratchett quote
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They [...]
October 12, 2009
Categories: Books, Graphic novels, manga . Tags: aliens, Fairies, Good Neighbors, Mr. Spock, Robots, Star Trek, Superman, Transformers, Vogelein, zombies . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
Teen Read Month Read Beyond Reality Tournament!
Some wizards and vampires are frankly too adorable to fight.
Negima!? Neo! – Negi Springfield, mage in training and master of battle magic. He is backed by his fearsome and strangely skilled class 2A. No quidditch jokes, please.
Chibi Vampire – Karin doesn’t need to drink blood, [...]
October 1, 2009
Categories: Books, Graphic novels, manga . Tags: Chibi Vampire, Courtney Crumrin, Graphic novels, Karin, magic, manga, negima, Negima!?Neo!, Night Things, Vampire Knight, vampires, wizards . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
Teen Read Month Read Beyond Reality Tournament!
NINJA vs PIRATES!
For Team Ninja we have Uzumaki Naruto of the Naruto manga! With his massive ninja powers, he can overwhelm an opponent with his Shadow Clone Technique, making hundreds of copies of himself. There’s power in numbers, folks! He can also use the explosive Rasengan technique, [...]
October 1, 2009
Categories: Graphic novels, manga . Tags: Flame of Recca, manga, Naruto, Ninja, Ninjas, One Piece, pirates, Polly and the Pirates, Read Beyond Reality . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
I started out as a Marvel fan. I read Spider-man, then got into the Avengers, then, of course, the X-Men. Then I became a DC fan, then manga.
Marvel started to disappoint. Then they decided to cut the number of mutants at the end of the House of M and had mutant [...]
June 16, 2009
Categories: Graphic novels . Tags: comic books, Graphic novels, Marvel comics, Wolverine, X-men . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
Viz is putting out a ton of Naruto books in the next three months. Three or four volumes a month.
Keep an eye on the Manga and Graphic novel bookletter for the new arrivals.
February 3, 2009
Categories: Graphic novels, manga . Tags: Naruto, VIZ . Author: dplmanga . Comments: 1 Comment
Visual literacy (or, as it is colloquially known, visuacy) is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading. — Wikipedia
In other words (if [...]
February 2, 2009
Categories: Graphic novels, manga . Tags: Gon, Graphic novels, Owly, wordless . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
It time for the Teen Summer Reading Program! Signing up is painless!
Teens get a card and when you get nine clips from the card, you can turn it in for the drawing and prizes! The grand prize drawing includes $50 cash cards from US Bank.
Anyway, just to tie back in to [...]
June 23, 2008
Categories: Graphic novels, library . Tags: Reading program, manga, Graphic novels, graphic nonfiction . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment
…kick butt and change the world!
Spider-Girl is May Parker, a future daughter of Peter Parker, the amazing Spider-man. She was originally created for a one-shot imaginary story, but was so popular that Marvel continued with her and other “next generation” heroes. And super-hero teens can have a whole set of problems. Her [...]
June 20, 2008
Categories: Graphic novels, manga . Tags: A-Next, Agatha Heterodyne, Avengers, Avengers Next, Foglio, Gaslamp Fantasy, Girl Genius, Marvel Adventures, Spider-Girl, Spider-man, Spidergirl, Spiderman, Wild Thing, Wolverine . Author: dplmanga . Comments: Leave a Comment