FGNW: Free Graphic Novel Week starts tomorow!

That's right: In honor of my 1st Blogiversary, tomorrow will kick off a week-long give-away of free graphic novels!

Here's how it will work:

Every morning I'll announce at least two graphic novels that I'm giving away for free that day. To enter for a chance to win, send me an email with your name, your postal address, which graphic novel you want, and a sentence or two telling me why you want it. That's it--it's just that easy!

Please put 'FGNW' and the title of the graphic novel you want in the subject of your email.

You can enter once per day (but only once)--that means that you have to choose which of the two graphic novels you want. Also, you can only win once, so if you are picked you can't enter any more. But you can keep entering each day until you win.

Entries must be received by 11:59 pm EDT, and the winners will be announced the next morning. Then I'll announce the next two graphic novels, and we'll continue all week.

Of course, there's some fine print:

* You must be 18 or older, and you must live in the United States.

* Winners are chosen by me, based on whatever criteria I decide to employ that day. All decisions are final.

* If you are chosen to win, your name and entry will be used on this blog for the announcement of winners.

* All of the graphic novels will be registered on BookCrossing, and there may be a registration sticker inside the front cover. In other words, there won't be any collectible value to these--they're meant to be read!

Come back tomorrow morning for the announcement of the first two graphic novels I'm giving away!

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Today's cover is Sky Ape: Waiting for Crime, which I'm assuming is by artist Richard Jenkins.

Strange thing about my copy of this comic: I got it in a trade via BookCrossing, and someone has gone through and used white-out to remove all of the curse words. Now granted, pretty much all of the cursing in here is gratuitous, and honestly I'm not a big fan of gratuitous swearing when a simple $#%@! would work just as well. But still, defacing the text of a comic because you don't like the language used, that's uncool.

As for the comic itself, I liked it, certainly a lot more than I did the original Sky Ape collection. There's still an element of the ridiculous, but the story actually coheres into a narrative that can be followed. The story by Philip Amara, Tim McCarney & Michael Russo finds Kirk Madge, aka Sky Ape, and his crew traveling back in time to stop a group of home contractors from ruining ancient buildings (like pyramids and whatnot) with vinyl siding and hot tubs. It's a bunch of silly fun.

Hmm, this Monkey Cover entry has managed to turn into a quick review. So: Rating: 3 (of 5).

(standard disclaimer about apes not really being monkeys applies)

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(Be sure to come back to this blog later today for our big First Blogiversary Give-Away Announcement!)