Review: Search For Atlantis (DC Super Hero Girls Graphic Novels #7) by Shea Fontana

Search for Atlantis 

(DC Superhero Girls Graphic Novels #7) 

Written by Shea Fontana 

Art by Yancey Labat 

October 2, 2018 

DC Comics 

Source: finished copy from pub for review 

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The team is back and ready to rescue Mera's home in DC Super Hero Girls: Search for Atlantis! 

Things are going swimmingly for new students Mera and Raven until afield trip to Mera’s hometown of Atlantis when they find that the underwater city has vanished! Batgirl, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Bumblebee, Raven, Miss Martian, and Starfire discover that Atlantis has been shrunk and bottled by the powerful villain Brainiac. This gigantic problem calls for a small solution and to infiltrate Brainiac’s bottled city collection, Bumblebee and Raven combine technology with magic to shrink the heroes. But will they save the lost city of Atlantis or will their little plan lead to even bigger trouble? 

DC Super Hero Girls: Search for Atlantis continues to develop the relationships forged in DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis, Hits and Myths, Summer Olympus, Past Times at Super Hero High, Date with Disaster! and Out of The Bottle. Written by Shea Fontana, this story is perfect for ages 6-12!

The super awesome girls of Super Hero High are back in another fantastic graphic novel adventure! In Search For Atlantis readers are introduced to new students, Mera and Raven, and join the heroines as they rescue the wondrous underwater world of Atlantis and navigate the tricky world of high school. There’s also a fun and humorous Teen Titans origin story. 

Once again, author Shea Fontana offers young readers an exciting, fast-paced, and immersive adventure featuring beloved DC heroines. Full of cool super hero gadgets, captivating powers, engaging characters, awesome settings, thrilling storylines, and laugh out loud humor, Search For Atlantis, like the other books in this graphic novel series, gives young readers an age appropriate and accessible way to enjoy all the thrills, origin histories, and complexities of the DC superhero world...while, of course, focusing on the super heroines of this world. Fontana awesomely explores female empowerment and female friendships while offering smart, brave, capable, and admirable heroines. Labat’s crisp art is engaging, kinetic, and pops with fun colors. 

Search For Atlantis is another exciting, captivating, and well-crafted addition in this fantastic graphic novel series! 

MY RATING

4/5 Cupcakes

Shea Fontana is a writer for film, television and graphic novels. Her credits include developing and writing the DC Super Hero Girls animated shorts, TV specials, movies and graphic novels; Polly Pocket (developed and story editor), Doc McStuffins, The 7D, Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets (wrote show bible and first season), Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (story editor), the new Muppet Babies series; two Disney on Ice shows where she wrote new material for the worlds of Mickey Mouse, Inside Out, Disney Princesses, Finding Dori, Frozen, and other Disney and Pixar properties; and the feature film, Crowning Jules. She has also written for top comic titles including Justice League, Wonder Woman, Batman: Overdrive (coming 2019), Catwoman/Looney Tunes, and contributed anthology pieces starring Deathstroke and Teen Titans. 

Her DC Super Hero Girls graphic novels have been New York Times Best Sellers. Her debut graphic novel, Finals Crisis, was honored with Diamond's 2016 Gem Award for Best All-Ages Graphic Novel, and DC Super Hero Girls: Past Times at Super Hero High won the 2017 Gem Award for Best All-Ages Graphic Novel as well as the Comixology Reader's Pick award for Best All-Ages Graphic Novel of 2017 and was nominated for a Ringo Award. 

She lives in sunny Los Angeles where she enjoys hiking, hanging out with her dog, Moxie, and changing her hair color. Using the secret identity “Shea Q. Off,” Shea played roller derby until her tilted knee caps forced her into early retirement.

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Giraffe Problems Blog Tour (review)

Giraffe Problems 

Written by Jory John 

Illustrated by Lane Smith 

September 25, 2018 

Random House BFYR 

Source: pub for review 

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Penguins aren't the only animals with problems. . . . A second hilarious collaboration from picture-book superstars Lane Smith and Jory John! 

Can you guess what's making this giraffe self-conscious? Could it be . . . HIS ENORMOUS NECK Yes, it's exactly that--how on earth did you figure it out? 

Cyrus the giraffe can't understand why his neck is as long and bendy and, well, ridiculous as it is. No other animal has a neck this absurd. He's tried disguising it, dressing it up, strategically hiding it behind bushes--honestly, anything you can think of, he's tried. 

Just when he has exhausted his neck-hiding options and is about to throw in the towel, a turtle swoops in (well, ambles in, very slowly) and helps him understand that his neck has a purpose, and looks excellent in a bow tie. 

Jory John and Lane Smith have truly outdone themselves in this companion book to Penguin Problems.

Poor Cyrus the giraffe has a big problem: his neck! It’s just too long, too odd, too necky. And no amount of ties, bow ties, scarves, or hiding helps. But an unexpected conversation and new friendship with a turtle may just have Cyrus seeing his neck in a whole new way.  

Jory John’s Giraffe Problems is a cleverly funny and endearingly uplifting picture book. Little readers will be charmed by Cyrus’ laugh-out-loud predicament and Jory John’s precocious and amusingly posh text. Lane Smith wonderfully brings Cyrus and the turtle to life through engaging illustrations and masterfully creates great movement and textures. 

With pages of humor, a sweet message, and lovely illustrations, Giraffe Problems is sure to be a bedtime hit!

Jory John is a New York Times bestselling author of books for both children and adults. He is a two-time E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor recipient.  

Jory's work includes the New York Times bestselling novel The Terrible Two, the award-winning Goodnight Already! series and the national bestseller All my friends are dead. His most recent picture books are Penguin Problems (illustrated by Lane Smith) and Quit Calling Me a Monster! (illustrated by Bob Shea). 

Jory's forthcoming picture books include The Bad Seed (illustrated by Pete Oswald) and Can Somebody Please Scratch My Back? (illustrated by Liz Climo). 

Jory has also written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Believer, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and BuzzFeed, among many other publications. His projects have also been featured in The Best American Nonrequired Reading.  For more than six years, Jory worked as the programs director at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and educational center in San Francisco's Mission District, founded by Dave Eggers.