Meet the Author: Brad Meltzer

One of our librarians has fond memories of walking into a comic book store and seeing Mike Mignola (Hellboy) sitting at a table at a mostly unattended signing.

Those days are gone. If you want to see talent, it’s rare that they’ll show up at a comic book store. No, you’ll probably have to travel to a convention and fork over dollars before you can see your favorite artist or writer — especially if you want something signed.

That’s why it’s so cool that Brad Meltzer is going to be at the Hagen Ranch Road Library on Saturday, April 18 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. for free.

Meltzer is the author of the controversial Identity Crisis and he’s written for JLA and Green Arrow in addition to other titles (and soon Buffy).

He will be plugging his New York Times Bestseller Book of Lies, a novel about the murder of Superman creator Jerry Siegel’s father.

Tickets for speaker available beginning April 6. Two tickets per person. Limited seating available for this free presentation. Call 561-894-7500 for more details.

Graphic Novel Audiobooks!

I was doing my daily survey of the catalog to see what new graphic novels have arrived and I found a collection of graphic novel audiobook thingies!

If you follow this link, you’ll find the following DC graphic novel adaptations:

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Infinite Crisis
JLA: Batman: The Stone King
JLA: Exterminators
JLA: Superman: The Never-Ending Battle

Now these aren’t straight-up readings. They are dramatizations with a full voice-cast and music/sound effects — described (cheesily) as “A Movie in your Mind.”

I just checked out JLA: Batman: The Stone King and I’ll report on it later.