He comes by such dark magic honestly, as his father has retired from his famed monster-hunting career to be a college professor. The young man’s revenge is to trap the bully in hallucinations and nightmares. The first volume begins with a young man taking revenge on a former classmate who bullied him for possibly being gay (non-spoiler: he is). LOVE this creepy family of monster-hunters. ![]() The series The October Faction by writer Steve Niles and artist Damien Worm, color assist by Alyzia Zherno, and lettering by Robbie Robbins and Shawn Lee ( Amazon / Goodreads) It feels out of place in the series, and luckily was not continued in Volume 6. Forgotten yet again, Asa runs into a burglar and tries to stop him on her own, a decision that leads to an unlikely alliance.”Ĭontent warning: Volume 5 has a secondary storyline where a teen girl secondary character is objectified and almost assaulted. But no one bats an eye when she doesn’t return-not even as a storm approaches Nagoya. When Asa’s mother goes into labor yet again, Asa runs off to find a doctor. But there’s more to her kidnapper and this storm than meets the eye. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom-and not a soul notices. “In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. The series Asadora By Naoki Urasawa, translated by John Werry ( Amazon / Goodreads) Publisher Archaia put out parts 1 and 2 of three, but never the third, so you really have to get the self-published complete edition. (This is also known in our house as “that book about poor Monkey Girl” and if you read it, you’ll see what we mean.) C-Man and I both had a great time reading it, and it stands up perfectly on re-reading. The art is cartoonish in style, but never silly, and always just exactly enough to get the job done, nothing extra or wasted. It’s very much a tale of “man versus organized religion run amok,” but grounded in Irro and Hari’s personal experience and relationship as things around them get worse and they’re forced to fight back. Sadly under-recognized desert-based fantasy about monster-hunter Irro and his assistant Hari facing off against a cult that wants to destroy all monsters – with no regard for the drastic side effects on the people in their town. Just sayin’.)Ĭity in the Desert By Moro Rogers, lettered by Deron Bennett ( Amazon / Goodreads) ![]() (I’d buy a sequel, though, if it turned up now. It says it’s Volume 1, but lucky for us it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, since there was never a second installment. I loved the diversity of the team, not just in terms of gender and race, but also in personality, and the X-Files vibe was right up my alley. The second case for this unlikely team brings them to a small town, looking for an explanation for an animal attack… that looks suspiciously like werewolves. Together they must track down a rogue researcher whose experiments with a retrovirus now have a body count. A murder case where the dead body has an invisible head brings him into contact with Detective Joely Huffman and two CDC agents. Randal Horne, a physician who killed one of his patients by using a drug his colleagues knew was unsafe. Sherwood ( Amazon/ / Goodreads)Ī moody, dark supernatural cop drama centered around Dr. You know, like happens all the time in small rural towns.Ĭan Brian redeem his academic failures by cracking the case? Will he ever figure out that Freddie is just as much of a nerd as he is and she’d kiss him if given half the chance? And just how many Bigfoots are rampaging through the forest outside of town? Plenty of geek pop culture jokes here, and characters you can’t help but like.īad Medicine written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, drawn by Christopher Mitten, colored by Bill Crabtree, and lettered by Douglas E. He’s called home by his sheriff dad to consult on a murder case in his hometown… alongside cute lady Freddie Roth, a long-ago school friend whose academic career has gone much more smoothly. Our hero is Brian Wegman, an anthropology post-grad whose dissertation may never get approved. The nerd monster-hunting comic I never knew I needed. The Beast of Wolfe’s Bay by Erik Evensen, with color assists from Jeff Fugelsang and letters by Matt Talbot ( Amazon / Goodreads) Please let me know via my contact form if you find something yikes in a book I recommend. Obviously a re-read years later might reveal a problematic aspect I didn’t pick up on back then. (Disclosure: Amazon links are affiliate links.)Īny book on this list I loved at the time I read it, whether I had a chance to write a review or not. ![]() ![]() Strange beasts lurking in the darkness, and sometimes also the people who hunt them? Sign me up! So here are a few of my favorite graphic novels about monsters for you to peruse.
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