Spell Checkers, Vol. 2: Sons of a Preacher Man

Spell Checkers #2

by Jamie S. Rich, Nicolas Hitori De (Illustrator), Joëlle Jones (Illustrator)

There are two new kids at school. Twin brothers - one straight-laced and buttoned-up, the other a rebel in a leather jacket - and they've transferred in with trouble for the Spell Checkers. Jesse finds romance, but for Cynthia, it's rivalry. She and the good brother compete for student body president, while Kimmie tries to find out who murdered the last one. Dark magic is afoot, as well as dark humor, in the second mystical volume of Oni's latest hit series!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Young Adult

152 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2011

About the author

Rich is an author of both prose (Cut My Hair, I Was Someone Dead, and The Everlasting) and comics (the two-volume series Love the Way You Love; the Spell Checkers series). His third full-length novel, Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?, was released by Oni Press in the summer of 2007. He regularly collaborates with artist Joelle Jones, including the Oni graphic novels 12 Reasons Why I Love Her and You Have Killed Me. Rich most recently wrote It Girl & the Atomics for Image Comics and A Boy and a Girl with artist Natalie Nourigat. He also serialized his fourth novel, Bobby Pins and Mary Janes , online.

Reviews

[Karen JEC · Rating 2 out of 5]

More gruesome and less magical than the first volume. I’m not really getting into the series after all but I’m glad to have made it to the second volume at least before making up my mind about it.

Favourite Quotes:

"I see what you see, so try not to traumatize me."

"No boy has ever given me flowers before. They aren’t a language I speak."

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I bought volumes 1-3 at Comic Con last year. I read volume 1 last month and it was by far the worst thing I read last year, maybe ever, so why did I read volume 2 you ask? Because I had already paid for it, and partly a bad trainwreck that I can't look away from and partly a belief that it had to get better.
And it did... slightly. I didn't want to strangle the main characters this time, but they were still extremely obnoxious.
I will read volume 3, because it is paid for, then all three will get sold to the used book store, because that much vapid - ness can not be on my book shelf with my other books.

[Lady Entropy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it as well, as the stakes were higher than the first, but the characters were starting to get a little grating. I am all for sass, but they were outright nasty to each other, to the point where you wondered "why"? In the first book, there was a reasons. Here? Not so much.

[Hyzenthlay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as the first, but still pretty decent. I had a hard time telling some of the characters apart.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as the first one since there wasn't that much magic but it did a good job with pop culture references.