Ok, so maybe I exaggerate, but this summer brings high temperatures, days at the beach and ample choice when it comes to what GNs to read.
First up we have Cowboys and Aliens out in paperback on June 28, to get you excited about the movie starring Harrison Ford (yum) and Daniel Craig (double yum) that comes out in July. This is not your average cowboy western. You certainly do have the requisite cowboys and indians (eek, somewhere HR is cringing from my un-PC lingo), but enter into the picture aliens who have designs to annihilate everyone and it's a horse of a different color!
Next is my fave of the group, The Griff, on sale July 19. This also focuses on the popular theme of alien invasions, but the characters are ever so slightly less conventional. The leader of this motley crew is Mo, a snarky, Gothy goddess, who along with Steve, a skateboard-punk, Curt, a buff commando expert in weaponry, and a chain-smoking professional squirrel (yep, you read that right) team up to save the world. In a word – hysterical. Watch authors, Christopher Moore and Ian Corson, discuss their work at WonderCon.
Finally, we have the paperback release of The Clockwork Girl on August 23. This is a really sweet story of Tesla, a mechanical creation of Wilhelm the Tinkerer, who with the help of her friend Huxley, a boy mutant, learns what it means to be human. Along the way they fight robots, break into ancient fortresses and travel to the depths of the ocean, so it's not all mushy. The movie comes out in October, and you can watch a behind the scenes clip here.
Ok – is that enough choice? First 10 commenters to tell me which graphic novel appeals most and why get a copy.
-Annie
From the fabulously entertaining mind of Christopher Moore comes The Griff, a graphic novel about aliens intent on destroying Earth, and the misfits who try to stop them.