Ripley's Believe It or Not

author: Ben Meares
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.56
book published:
rating: 3
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date added: 2019/04/07
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Ripley's Believe It or Not' by Tony Isabella and Ben Meares is a graphic novel that immediately took me back to when I was a kid and had the Ripley's cartoon books to thumb through.

Using a framing story of people visiting the Ripley's Odditorium's, this collection features some famous stories that have been featured by Ripley's Believe It or Not. A railroad worker is impaled by a spike and lives, but his personality changes for the worse (who can blame him?). A cat in a nursing home seems to know when people will die. A superstitious woman builds an odd house to try to confuse the ghosts that haunt it.

I loved reading these stories as a kid and this graphic novel brought all the weird, ghoulish times right back again. The art is decent enough. The framing story just feels like it gets in the way, but the short stories included are just fun.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Zenescope, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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