Books by Phil Foglio
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review 1: I would like to actually give this book 3 and half stars, or 3 and three quarters, but since I can't I am giving it only three, since it just couldn't make the leap to four stars. If you enjoy steampunk and a fast paced read it was funny and interesting, but there was a certain ...
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review 1: If you've seen the movie Hairspray there's the line of "You're joinin' this program already in progress!" And for me this truly was the case, this was the first of the books I'd read, and I'm totally unfamiliar with graphic novels.That said, I was a little confused with things a...
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review 1: This was my first foray into Steampunk/Fantasy/Sci-Fi and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the novelization of the on-line graphic novel Girl Genius. So if you want pictures go on-line, but I think my imagination served me well. Agatha Clay is a young woman frustrated by the disc...
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review 1: I borrowed this from the library hoping it was the first volume. Sadly my local library doesn't seem to have the first volume, so I'll just have to track it down myself.Obviously this is not the beginning of Agatha's story. I found it very easy to read. It's not so overly complic...
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review 1: Featuring their Hugo acceptance speech! And, as promised, A Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance & Mad Science!Featuring the emperor of cats, a romantic moment where a woman tells a man that she'll hate him forever (which makes him happy, but a minute later, he realizes a sma...
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review 1: This is the 7th TP book in the Girl Genius series. This continues to be a super fun and laugh-out-loud series filled with fantasy, steampunk goodness, and a little romance.Agatha has finally arrived in Mechanicsburg and is hoping to finally enter the mechanical fortress that was...
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review 1: This is the eighth TP in the wonderful Girl Genius gaslight fantasy graphic novel series. These books are just so much fun! This was one of the best books in this series so far.Agatha has finally made it into Heterodyne Castle, now she needs to repair the castle. Except the ca...
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review 1: I had been wanting to read the Girl Genius graphic novels for a long time. When I ran into this Ominbus at Half Price Books I was super excited. This was a highly amusing and entertaining read. It has a complex story, wonderful characters, a fantastic world, and is a hilarious...
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review 1: The 10th volume of GG is a mixed bag. The spark/minion cross-talk is brilliant, laugh-out-loud goodness, and the onion-peeling of the plot (and the castle) is fascinating -- but there's a lot of ... well, internal repetition here: personality transfers, Agatha/Lucrezia conflicts...
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review 1: An installment in the continuing story. With spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.First page is their Hugo acceptance speech, with Agatha interrupting to figure out the cause. It's not mind-control worms.It opens easily enough, with guards watching over the rejoicing in Mechanic...
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review 1: Just love this series! Agatha is my kind of gal. The illustrations are, as always, wonderfully detailed and fun to look at with unexpected little touches. As the story progresses I find myself having a hard time putting the book down. In fact, I read this in one sitting this morn...
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review 1: In volume 8 of Agatha Heterodyne's exciting adventures, Agatha is back in her family seat of Mechanicsberg but to hold it, she'll need the help of the (sentient) castle, which means getting inside it and repairing it, while dealing with the fractured mind that mostly wants to kil...