kellyhager 's review for:

The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel, Volume 1 by P. Craig Russell, Neil Gaiman
4.0

I hope when they make it into a movie, they give it to Tim Burton, because this reminded me of old-school Tim Burton, really awesome Tim Burton--the Tim Burton of Beetlejuice, not Planet of the Apes and that monstrosity he called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Sorry if you liked it--I am fiercely loyal to the original, the one where Willy Wonka didn't seem insane and creepy--at least, not the ENTIRE TIME.)

Anyway.

The Graveyard Book is about Nobody "Bod" Owens, a young boy who grows up in a graveyard (and is raised by said graveyard's inhabitants) after an assassin kills his parents and older sister. He doesn't entirely fit in (seeing as how he isn't dead) but he has friends and family. If he leaves the graveyard, he risks the assassin finding him and killing him.

Really, really fun book.