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 [...]
Week 4 Final Match-Up! Ninjas VS Fairies!
Week 3! Ninjas VS Vampires & Fairies VS Zombies
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, [...]
Week 2: Robots VS Fairies & Aliens VS Zombies!
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 [...]
Week 1: Wizards VS Vampires!
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, [...]
Week 1: Ninjas VS Pirates!
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, [...]
Naruto update
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.
Who needs words?
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 [...]
Girls just wanna…
…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 [...]
Mystics and Dimension Travel
xxxHolic and Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle are the latest manga being written by the CLAMP artist team. The two series tie in and cross over with the other as well as a variety of other CLAMP series.
Both series start out with deceptively simple storylines.
In xxxHolic, high school student Watanuki is plagued with the ability to [...]
Go West?
The space for shelving manga at the West Duluth branch has doubled! So I need to buy lots of new books for the branch. The patrons there seem to prefer boy’s manga, but I thought I should throw in a few girl’s manga titles as well.
Here are some titles I am thinking of [...]
