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Dec 06, 2011 Raina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: graphicnovel, creepyish, sci-fi, ya

The title is no joke. This island is very bad.

Although Ghostopolis's setting may have appeared darker than this, I was far more creeped out by the content here. We meet all kinds of warped and lethal animals, including the villainization of one of my most favorite icons. The illustrations of the bad, bad things are spikey, unnatural, and assymetrical. Very very ugly for a book this cartoony. There is a dark otherworldly reason the island is the way that it is, and an unfortunate family ends up ...more

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Jun 10, 2011 Rachel rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels, book-talk, read-it-in-2011

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Imagine that you’ve been marooned on a deserted island. Has everyone in this room been asked what they would do in this scenario? Everyone? What’s the one thing you would bring with you? Matches? A hatchet? A volleyball named Wilson? What’s the first thing you would do? Make Fire? Find fresh water? Build a shelter? Well I assume we probably all have the same picture in our heads as to what this dersert island looks like, right? Palm trees, White sand, coconuts… etc. I think It’s also as Booktalk:
Imagine that you’ve been marooned on a deserted island. Has everyone in this room been asked what they would do in this scenario? Everyone? What’s the one thing you would bring with you? Matches? A hatchet? A volleyball named Wilson? What’s the first thing you would do? Make Fire? Find fresh water? Build a shelter? Well I assume we probably all have the same picture in our heads as to what this dersert island looks like, right? Palm trees, White sand, coconuts… etc. I think It’s also assumed that you are the only one on that island. However in this book, the tricky thing about this about this deserted island, is that it’s not all that deserted. This island in this book is Bad Island, and unfortunately, on Bad Island you are never alone.

Reese is forced to take part in a family vacation, even though he’s old enough and responsible enough to stay at home on his own. But his Dad has a crazed commitment to quality family bonding time, and when he’s in this kind of mood, it’s no use arguing with him. So Reese says a reluctant goodbye to his friends, his videogames and summer football camp.
His Dad recently invested in a small Sailboat just in case his wife and kids suddenly had a desire to leave civilization behind and travel around on the ocean in a tiny floating box without electricity, a flushing toilet or a shower. Has anyone here been on a boat before? Not a big boat, where you can hardly feel the waves, but a small one, where you are constantly moving up and down? Has anyone ever experienced sea sickness before? Nothing says quality bonding time like group vomiting off the side of a ship together. You probably already know this, but boats are expensive. Even a little one, like the one Reese’s family is sailing around cost his Dad an arm and a leg. They couldn’t afford a lot sailing real estate, suddenly it’s like they all live in one small bedroom with a really low ceiling. Don’t get me wrong, family is an important thing, but so is personal space. They are tense and queasy and cramped.
You might be surprised how fast a fun family sailing trip can go downhill. Especially when a freak summer storm hits and after a night being buffeted around on 30 foot high waves, they end up shipwrecked on an island. Survival is the first Reese and his family need to think about. Food and water, check. They can salvage those things from the shipwreck. And a shelter they can build. Now they just need to get off the Island. They need to figure out how to leave. But this is Bad Island, and Bad Island doesn’t want them to leave. Ever. Survival just got a little more challenging.
This book is written and illustrated by one of my favorite graphic novel authors, Doug TenNapel. The illustrations in this book are in full color. If you like graphic novels, this one is a must read. ...more

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Dec 12, 2012 Kit rated it really liked it

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