You can visit Wil's bandcamp page and purchase a copy of him narrating this book, with extra asides and anecdotes not included in the written version.
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"Why would you not want to build infographics about comic books?!" Tim Leong (Author and Illustrator) in an interview with LifeHacker in July 2013.
I checked this book out from the library, thinking that I'd enjoy the graphics but likely have to diligently trudge through a mass of script as well. I was totally off the mark! Not only did I not have to trudge through any of the contents, but I occasionally had to pull deals with myself to put the book down after the next picture and go to sleep!
Super Graphic is OH. SO. PRETTY. as well as informative, quirky, and unique - ironically the same things I look for in my comic books, graphic novels, and..well..pretty much everything. At only 196 pages and sizing in at 9.4 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches (23.88 x 18.8 x 1.5 centimeters), this paper back might seem a little on the dinky side for a standard coffee table book (which usually come hardbound, three times as thick, and weighing in at a couple of pounds minimum). Don't let that fool you - this book was made to be looked at. Besides, since when did underestimating a superhero by it's size and appearance ever work?
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*SPOILER ALERT*
I feel as though it has fallen from an interestingly based criminal series to one of conspiracy. I would have much preferred the author explore the possibilities of crime by ghosts rather than take the (seemingly) more easy road of chalking it up to a secret society which intends to take over the world.
Also, I felt the main character's conviction and smarts slip in this instalment, pandering to her blonde, southern-belle stereotype a lot more. I had been glad to find a YA novel which depicted a strong female lead (even if she was obviously still coming into her own, given she IS a teen) that challenged these stereotypes, both to the readers and to the international characters she came into contact with in the book.
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