Monster Graphic Novels: Monster Dinosaur
This third Monster graphic-novel import is, well, it’s kind of insane. But in exactly the same way that a sugar-rushing seven-year-old would plot an inspired flight of fancy. It’s about a dinosaur-drawing contest that brings the creatures to life in a battle for dinosaur supremacy that, completely reasonably, devolves into all kinds of running-amok mayhem. Throughout it all, French master cartoonist Trondheim’s twin weapons of hilarious understatement and goofy dissonance make the lunacy sing out loud and clear. And the solution to the rampaging mortalosaurus that’s destroying the whole town? Well, it’s just crazy perfect. Don’t make the mistake of missing out on this series. Grades 1-4. --Ian Chipman