The Return of Zita the Spacegirl
Ben Hatke
ISBN: 9781626720589
Juv: Graphic Novel, human girl navigates alien menaces trying to keep herself and her friends safe.
This is the third (and last?) installment of the Zita the Spacegirl graphic novel series. (Parts 1&2 reviewed here)
After Zita gets her best friend accidentally teleported off Earth into a universe full of aliens and marvels, she manages to get him sent home through a series of adventures chronicled in the first two volumes. Unfortunately for her, a copy-bot impersonates her, resulting in her being branded as a criminal and incarcerated on a rocky asteroid, which is where we start.
Zita keeps her spunky attitude pretty intact as various friends (old and new) appear like clockwork to help Zita and the other unfortunate captives escape the brutal clutches of the Screed Dungeon Lord, and to prevent the Screed from using the final (?) portal device to invade Earth itself!
Lots of stuff going on, and lots of characters to remember from the last installments, plus a few more interesting characters to learn to love. The ending is bittersweet, with a not-so-subtle hint towards further adventures (which I would be all about, just FYI) that Zita and Joseph will undertake with their assorted and colorful friends.
Showing posts with label Legends of Zita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legends of Zita. Show all posts
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Short Reviews: June 2013. Zita the Spacegirl, Hereville: Mirka, Garden Princess
Zita
the Spacegirl: Far from Home (Book 1), &
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl (Book 2), Ben Hatke (author & illustrator)
ISBN: 978-1596436954 & ISBN: 978-1596438064
Summer 2011 & June 27, 2013
Juv Graphic Novel: In the first installment, Zita jumps into a space portal to save her best friend from being sacrificed on a far-away world as a prophecy fortold, picking up a crew of random down-and-out lifeforms along the way. In the second, a holographic recorder-bot sees a poster for the now-famous Zita, and impersonates her, while Zita gets branded a criminal in her attempts to rectify the situation. BOTH EXELLENT, although book 2 gives short shrift to the backup characters from book 1, and sets Zita up to head off alone, so we may not get much of them in book 3 either, which is sad.
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (vol 1) and
How Mirka Met a Meteorite (vol 2), Barry Deutsch.
ISBN: 978-0810984226, 978-1419703980
Spring 2011, June 26, 2013.
Juvenile Graphic Novel: Odd little fairy-style stories with a kick-ass heroine that reminds me strongly of the Hale's Rapunzel's Revenge. Orthodox Judaism does feature strongly, but it's less religious and more cultural.
Garden Princess, Kristin Kladstrup. ISBN: 978-0763656850
June 26, 2013
Juvenile fantasy, "ordinary princess" style. Adela isn't beautiful, and doesn't like to be "princessy" - she'd rather garden. But when her very handsome friend and her equally beautiful step-sister get invited to a garden party by mysterious Lady Hortensia, Adela just has to come along to see the garden. Hortensia is a HORRIBLE name, the story isn't too original, but - turning a thieving guest into a magpie and an "ordinary" princess into a dandelion is delicious, and the scenes of lovestruck courtiers failing miserably at housekeeping were hysterical.
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl (Book 2), Ben Hatke (author & illustrator)
ISBN: 978-1596436954 & ISBN: 978-1596438064
Summer 2011 & June 27, 2013
Juv Graphic Novel: In the first installment, Zita jumps into a space portal to save her best friend from being sacrificed on a far-away world as a prophecy fortold, picking up a crew of random down-and-out lifeforms along the way. In the second, a holographic recorder-bot sees a poster for the now-famous Zita, and impersonates her, while Zita gets branded a criminal in her attempts to rectify the situation. BOTH EXELLENT, although book 2 gives short shrift to the backup characters from book 1, and sets Zita up to head off alone, so we may not get much of them in book 3 either, which is sad.
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (vol 1) and
How Mirka Met a Meteorite (vol 2), Barry Deutsch.
ISBN: 978-0810984226, 978-1419703980
Spring 2011, June 26, 2013.
Juvenile Graphic Novel: Odd little fairy-style stories with a kick-ass heroine that reminds me strongly of the Hale's Rapunzel's Revenge. Orthodox Judaism does feature strongly, but it's less religious and more cultural.
Garden Princess, Kristin Kladstrup. ISBN: 978-0763656850
June 26, 2013
Juvenile fantasy, "ordinary princess" style. Adela isn't beautiful, and doesn't like to be "princessy" - she'd rather garden. But when her very handsome friend and her equally beautiful step-sister get invited to a garden party by mysterious Lady Hortensia, Adela just has to come along to see the garden. Hortensia is a HORRIBLE name, the story isn't too original, but - turning a thieving guest into a magpie and an "ordinary" princess into a dandelion is delicious, and the scenes of lovestruck courtiers failing miserably at housekeeping were hysterical.
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