The Incredible Rockhead vs Papercut!

Incredible Rockhead

by Scott Nickel, C.S. Jennings (Illustrator)

Chip Stone, a.k.a. the Incredible Rockhead, has yet to meet his match -- until now. Rockhead is up against an enemy designed to defeat him -- Papercut! With the entire school watching, this paper tiger is looking to cover Rockhead in the most action-packed game of paper, rock, scissors the world has ever seen. Is this the end of our boulder-headed hero, or will Rock find a way to hammer Paper into pulp?

Genres: Graphic Novels

40 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

Growing up, Scott Nickel wanted to be a comic book writer or a mad scientist. As an adult, he gets to do both. In his secret literary lab, Scott has created more than a dozen graphic novels for Stone Arch Books featuring time travel, zombies, robots, giant insects, and mutant lunch ladies. Scott's NIGHT OF THE HOMEWORK ZOMBIES received the 2007 Golden Duck award for Best Science Fiction Picture Book.

When not creating crazy comics, Scott squeezes in a full-time job as a writer and editor at Jim Davis' Garfield studio.

Check out Scott’s monstrously funny syndicated comic strip, EEK!, at Go Comics: http://www.gocomics.com/eek/

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beware Rockhead! Papercut is out to get you! Can I share something here: I never got this! I never won when I did this as a kid! Seems to me I was told all sorts of 'reasons' why the other kid won - and I could never figure out if it was true or not! Hope all my GR friends don't think any less of me - kind of funny to admit this!

[Nancy Jo Lambert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to be honest and admit I did not think this series would be particularly good. However, I was pleasantly surprised. This is another great easy graphic novel for kids. I like this series because it can be read in one sitting (by an early reader or a parent), it has a good, clever story, it also seems to have a great arcing story line. A nice recommend for kids.

[Nick · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed by both the story and the format. The story is funny enough that some kids might like it, but so short that it is over too quickly. Taking pages out of an already very short book to do fake video game ads was a cheesy idea, and the expensive binding makes it overpriced for the length of the story. Also, the pacing of the story is very rushed.
The entire premise of this brief story is to take the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors and turn it into a superhero battle. Yep, that's it. The main character has a head that turns into rock, so an evil scientist turns the school bully into paper, because paper covers rock. Then, the hero's friend turns out to have created a sidekick costume for a character called "Scissorlegs," which works out because scissors beat paper. No, really. It was in the story just like that.
Kids who have read everything else vaguely related to a graphic novel, and still want something more, might be willing to kill a few minutes with this book while waiting for something better. If they make it to the end of the book, they might create their own characters, which the book does encourage. That kept it as two stars, rather than one.
In general, though, this is a step down in quality from Nickel's Buzz Beaker stories, which are better and much more fun.

[Nikki in Niagara · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first book in this series I really did not like at all but with the this, the third in the series, I'm more open to it's appeal for children. I still think Rockhead is a dumb superhero. He smashes things with his head, which turns into a rock, but his head is so heavy he can't move on his own and he needs a push to get started. In this story the villain Papercut is out to get Rockhead and as we all know paper covers rock (in the old game) and Rockhead may just have met his match until a new superhero comes along to help him out. And now it looks like, as in typical superhero tradition, Rockhead will now have a sidekick. Honestly, I'm not too keen on this but kids will probably find it fun especially since the book is set up like a real comic book with fake advertisements to boot! RL: 1.3.

[Marcie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I disliked this down to the fake ads for videogames based upon the series. I just think there are so many better, more creative grapjix novels and comic books out there. Too little plot for my taste.

[Elaina]

review book for the Apollo Jr High library in which I work

[Arelys Torres]

want to readed