Aaron Alexovich

This comic book hits the creepy/cute note that a lot of young teens and preteens love perfectly. The art is dark and crowded, but different styles of lettering and speech balloons make it possible to keep track of who is saying what. Variations in format keep adding bits of story from different perspectives: a newspaper article, a school essay, advertisements, Serenity's memories, and fantasies, and comics, and voiceovers from The Narrator. I usually love texts with a Narrator, but this one sneers so much at almost every character that I do not care for him.… (mere)

Invader Zim, Volume 1 picks up where the Nickelodeon series left off, with Zim attempting to conquer Earth on behalf of the Irken Armada with robot Gir as his classmate Dib tries to thwart his plans while railing to an indifferent world that an alien invasion is on the way. Fans of the television series will find the stories and characters they love in these books, complete with the antics and occasional lack of continuity that make Invader Zim the cult favorite it remains. This volume collects the first five comics from Oni Press, written by Jhonen Vasquez and Eric Trueheart with pencils by Aaron Alexovich and inks by Megan Lawton.… (mere)