Calamity Jack is written by the husband and wife team of Dean and Shannon Hale. It’s a graphic novel that combines all sorts of fantastical elements with super heroes and ends up being just plain fun.

I’m a relative newbie to graphic novels, and I’m always a bit hesitant to read them. Sometimes I’m afraid I’ll misinterpret the pictures and misunderstand the story or miss something critical. But I had nothing to fear with that here, the pictures are absolutely lovely and I was even looking at them in black and white in the ARC, the finished copy includes full pictures. Also, I fell in love with the concept of the book almost immediately, I loved the clever retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and the many interesting creatures that populate his world. I also really enjoyed the humor and found myself chuckling several times throughout.

It is a graphic novel so it takes substantially less time time to read but it’s completely enjoyable. The only small struggle in the plotline for me was not having read the first graphic novel Rapunzel’s Revenge. So when Rapunzel comes onto the scene there’s not much introduction. But knowing the other story exists helps to understand why that’s the case and has made me all the more eager to find it to read sometime in the future.

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