As we are slowing down and getting ready for our Holidays Week Vacation... we are still getting emails and other communications from those that either have read our blog posts, or bought from us before. The big question right now on their mind is... "what to find for a hard to please reader?"!

Well... if the person you are thinking of is into graphic novels, then the following is what a good graphic novel should do:  

Get your attention, keep you interested in the storyline, and have good art that complements the time period or genre of the graphic novel.

This graphic novel did just that for me!

Which was surprising, because my most recent review of Orson Scott Card's work was 'Ultimate Iron Man', which defintely did nothing for me, and actually turned me off reading the rest of that series....

(That was basically because I grew up with the original Iron Man of the 1960's by Stan Lee, and this updated storyline in an alternate timeline / Ultimates Universe just didn't get my interest. But then again I wasn't the target market for this Ultimate Iron Man series...)

However this graphic novel by Orson Scott Card, Roland Bernard Brown, Renato Arlem, Miguel Montenegro, and others, is far, far different than the first book I reviewed !

From the get go the story brought in interesting characters, the artwork was very good for the time period, and the script had a story to tell that was fascinating! The storyline is of the settling and taming of the early frontier, and what could have happened if certain important persons didn't do what we know they had done in our history books! Sounds kind of cryptic... but the storyline kept me interested!

The writing, the artwork, and the compilation of the comics into one book with a good cover would make it worth the $19.99 that is the cover price of this book.

Comics, graphic novels, and picture books don't all have to be about super-heroes. And contrary to what some may think... I do read and enjoy many genres of comics! 

Maybe I enjoy running comic con photos of super-heroines, (like Wonder Woman), a bit much in our blog here on eBay (LOL)... but I do blog on other genres like this one!

This volume was so good, that I want to continue reading the series!

Now THAT's a recommendation!

Speaking of which, Tina and I have 468+ reviews that can be seen by clicking this link, including reviews on DVDs, graphic novels, comic book compilations, and more....

(Please Note: A complimentary copy for this review was NOT provided by the publisher.)

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we also have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store!