Alan Cowsill

Written by Alan Cowsill and Illustrated by Lalit Kumar Sharma, World War One takes readers on a journey through the war to end all wars. Following a sequence of actual British soldiers, the award-winning graphic novel uses dark humor and vivid illustrations to bring World War 1 to life. As a veteran, I admire sneaky humor. As a teacher, I appreciate the book's focus on causes of the war, inhumanity of battle, technological advances, and scope of a war laden with lessons for the world to remember. This book is useful to those just beginning their study of the topic and those with deep prior knowledge of WW1. The illustrations really are something! It didn't win Comic Con's 2014 award for best graphic novel writer, penciller, and inker team for nothing.… (more)

i really enjoyed this book. it takes 200 superheros and gives a small account of orgin (now how they became, necessarily) and what their main powers are, a little about them and of course genealogical connections. one of the reason i so love the super hero world is that it really is modern mythology. it all ties together like mythology does as well. now i know you're saying 'duh' but it is deeper. i did learn a few things and some physical or genealogical facts i didn't know and that was fun. it wasn't just all of the popular ones as well. although it wasn't so obsure that you'd never heard of any of them either.… (more)