It's October, so time for some good Halloween and Horror recommendations. Scary Godmother by Jill Thompson - This series started out as more of kids picture books and became a comic later, but it's still in the comic community and printed by a comic company. The books have been reprinted a few times, but recently were collected in one large collection with the comics in another collection. The basic story is about Hannah Marie, a young girl who is frightened by her cousin and his friends on Halloween. This leads Hannah to meeting her Scary Godmother, a Halloween version of a fairy godmother (and we find out later Scary was trained as a fairy godmother and witch). Scary helps Hannah frighten her cousin and his friends and then Hannah begins adventures in a world of Halloween with monsters and ghouls as her best friends. Manifest Destiny by Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark take a rag tag band of soldiers and criminals to sc...
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