Part 2: Graphic Novels I'm Looking Forward To Reading

I've been browsing my to-read list of all the graphic novels/comics I'm looking forward to and there were so many! This is the second part of three lists I have for graphic novels I'm looking forward to reading. You can take a look at part 1 here.

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. 

But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer--a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake. 

                      

Thoughts: In Real Life Anda becomes the heroine that we all cherish in books. I can really get behind a girl who becomes her own main character in real life. 


Wormholes in your kitchen. Gravity failures at school. Quantum tornadoes tearing through the midwest. As with all natural disasters, people do what they always do: They adapt and survive. And if things get really bad, the Federal Bureau of Physics (FBP) is only a call away.

FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics is the story of Adam Hardy: Young, brash and smart, he's a rising star at the FBP, but when a gravity failure leads to the creation of an alternate dimension known as a "BubbleVerse," Adam is sent on a rescue mission and finds his skills and abilities pushed to their limits when he discovers his partner has a different agenda... 
     
                     

Thoughts: It's like The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter but with science. It sounds like it's going to be amazing.


The extraordinary world introduced in Paul Pope's Battling Boy is rife with monsters and short on heroes... but in this action-driven extension of the Battling Boy universe, we see it through a new pair of eyes: Aurora West, daughter of Arcopolis's last great hero, Haggard West. A prequel to Battling Boy, The Rise of Aurora West follows the young hero as she seeks to uncover the mystery of her mother's death, and to find her place in a world overrun with supernatural monsters and all-too-human corruption. With a taut, fast-paced script from Paul Pope and JT Petty and gorgeous, kinetic art from David Rubin, The Rise of Aurora West (the first of two volumes) is a tour de force in comics storytelling.

                    

Thoughts: So I admit I need to read The Battling Boy which my brother has. I want to read this prequel specifically because it stars a strong heroine and the world looks fantastic.


You wouldn’t expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie’s the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely—until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders. At stake is funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms—but not both.

It's only going to get worse: after both parties are stripped of their funding on grounds of abominable misbehavior, Nate enrolls the club's robot in a battlebot competition in a desperate bid for prize money. Bad sportsmanship? Sure. Chainsaws? Why not. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot death match? Of course!

In Faith Erin Hicks' and Prudence Shen's world of high school class warfare and robot death matches, Nothing can possibly go wrong.

                                       

Thoughts: Faith Erin Hicks is the reason I want to try this book. I loved her Friends with Boys and I'm sure I'll enjoy this one by her and Prudence Shen. I like the unlikely friendship and I want to see how everything goes down.

Once upon a time there was a little girl much beloved by a team of heroes called the Killjoys. They swore to protect her. And then a bloody battle broke out between the evil empire of Battery City and these rebels of the Desert. The Killjoys died. The girl lived.


                           

Thoughts: If anyone knows My Chemical Romance you'll know that the former band created an album centered around the Killjoys. Gerard Way was the lead singer and he's created a comic before called The Umbrella Academy that was surprisingly impressive so this should be good. 

Do you see yourself as the main character in your life?