Category: graphic novel fantasy

Phoebe and Her Unicorn vols 7 & 8

Unicorn of Many Hats

Solid, solid. Unicorn remains well drawn.

Unicorn Theatre

Another graphic novel! This time it’s about friendship and drama camp and drama and it involves seeing Marigold’s sister who has thankfully found a nasal spray that makes her stop snorting out spiders. I appreciated that detail a lot.

I always like the little vocab guides at the end in a ‘oh maybe I’ll learn words betterer’ kind of nerdlinger way.

Witch Boy 2 and 3 by Molly Ostertag

I really liked the first one, The Witch Boy, and I was excited to see what came next!

The Hidden Witch

This one focused on the fallout from the first book and got into the kinds of dangers a witch faces beyond an actual enemy. I liked the newly introduced characters and expansion of previous ones.

The Midwinter Witch

This one has moved on from consequences and explores the larger world of Aster’s family. There’s some really great scenery in this one, art-wise.

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So I like the Witch Boy series! I think that my only issue with it is that it needs a little more room to expand itself, because otherwise it feels a little anemic plot/character wise. But art, absolutely wonderful. Love the designs and scenery. And so much character in the characters in just the little we see! I love Aster and Juniper’s relationship as siblings among all the other excellent character beats.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn 5 & 6

I love Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson as, among other things, it has the best drawn unicorn ever.

Book 5: Unicorn Crossing (2017)

This one was a collection of the newspaper comics, with the ongoing plot of the Goblins which I liked because for some reason ‘Blart!’ is very funny to me as a dialogue thing. I’m slowly catching up via the volumes so I can start reading the daily comic which has been piling up in my gocomics subscription.

Book 6: Phoebe and Her Unicorn in the Magic Storm (2017)

This one’s an actual story! With Max characterization! And an ongoing Legend joke which was just delightful. Phoebe is a sweetheart. I really like her as a character, especially in this.