A review by shane_tiernan
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman

4.0

I read this a long time ago and now, since I have a bunch more of the comics, I decided to read the whole series. This is some pretty heavy reading for comic. Not a ton of action but lots of words. Fortunately the words are interesting and the art was pretty neat sometimes. The most shocking thing about this was Mr. Gaiman's picture on the back - what a dashing young man. Lately I've been seeing videos of him looking like a grizzled old man who just woke up, so there's quite a difference.

This first graphic novel is "pure Gaiman". Legends and magic and song, characters who aren't what they seem to be and characters you always thought about as "campy" or "silly" made interesting and serious. Definitely looking forward to more.