Wow, was this bad. I mean. Seriously. Really, really, really bad. I don’t know what kind of crack all the reviewers are smoking, but I definitely want to get my hands on it if it would make a book this bad seem that good. I know that there’s no accounting for taste and all, but some books should just be universally accepted as bad.

I was really excited about it, too, because I love libraries and librarians, and I loved the idea of a superlibrarian. Only, I already have a librarian superhero, Giles, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Giles is way cooler than Libris. Oh, sure, Libris is immortal, but that’s about all his has going for him in this graphic novel, which seems simultaneously ripped off from about 12 different sources, with a heavy dose of Buffy.

I also really, really, really, really loathed the sections where we see Rex interacting with his editor, maintaining some kind of weird fiction that he wrote the book. I hate it when fiction books get all weird and self-referential, and graphic novels are no exception to my hatred. Aside from the fact that the dialogue was just stupid in those scenes, they were also just so not necessary that they made my head hurt.

People somewhere obviously liked this, and that’s great for them, but I think I’ve read the worst book of July already, and it’s only the first!

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Rex Libris: I, Librarian, by James Turner. Published 2007, 184 pages. Graphic novel.