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Animorphs Graphix #6
The Capture: The Graphic Novel
The sixth adventure of the wildly popular, bestselling sci-fi series by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant returns in this new full-color graphic novel series, adapted by Chris Grine.
It was bad enough when Jake found out his older brother was one of them. It was even worse when Tobias stayed in his morph too long. But nothing compares to the horror the Animorphs are about to face -- nothing.
The Animorphs have discovered the location of the Yeerks’s new base. They’ve even figured out how to get in -- and they have a plan to hit those alien slugs where it hurts.
But they were never prepared for Jake to fall into a Yeerk pool. For Jake to become a human controller. The enemy.
It’s a race against the clock as the Animorphs face their biggest challenge Save Jake before the Yeerk can expose them all …
It was bad enough when Jake found out his older brother was one of them. It was even worse when Tobias stayed in his morph too long. But nothing compares to the horror the Animorphs are about to face -- nothing.
The Animorphs have discovered the location of the Yeerks’s new base. They’ve even figured out how to get in -- and they have a plan to hit those alien slugs where it hurts.
But they were never prepared for Jake to fall into a Yeerk pool. For Jake to become a human controller. The enemy.
It’s a race against the clock as the Animorphs face their biggest challenge Save Jake before the Yeerk can expose them all …
208 pages, Hardcover
First published March 4, 2025
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March 7, 2025
This was a solid book to potentially end the graphic novel adaptations on, so I’m glad we made it here.
Overall I’m hella impressed with what Grine has done with the series - the way it has stayed true to the original energy, with some much needed updates here and there.
Spoilers from here out!
For The Capture in particular I was very surprised by the way Grine decided to depict the yeerk while it was controlling Jake. I thought it was an odd choice to have it basically look like Jake’s evil twin. I think it lent for some cool visuals, but idk that it conveyed the feeling of being invaded by an alien being. I’ll have to think on that!
Also how the HELL could they leave out Jake seeing the Crayak in a fever dream!? I was so HYPED for space Sauron 😔
But really - those are some petty complaints, this book was a great adaption and I hope we get more, but am so happy with the fact we got any of these at all! Truly a great time to be an Anifan.
Overall I’m hella impressed with what Grine has done with the series - the way it has stayed true to the original energy, with some much needed updates here and there.
Spoilers from here out!
For The Capture in particular I was very surprised by the way Grine decided to depict the yeerk while it was controlling Jake. I thought it was an odd choice to have it basically look like Jake’s evil twin. I think it lent for some cool visuals, but idk that it conveyed the feeling of being invaded by an alien being. I’ll have to think on that!
Also how the HELL could they leave out Jake seeing the Crayak in a fever dream!? I was so HYPED for space Sauron 😔
But really - those are some petty complaints, this book was a great adaption and I hope we get more, but am so happy with the fact we got any of these at all! Truly a great time to be an Anifan.
May 2, 2025
While I have to admit that, if you had to wrap this series early, this is the best place to end, it makes me sad that this is (probably, since I can’t find confirmation but I can get context) the last book we’re (again, probably) getting. The lack of Crayak kind of seals it in my mind.
Because damn, this book is so key to set up to how the book not only grows, but how the characters are slowly destroyed by war. That of course, shows the amazing themeing that Applegate had from the beginning, and damn I would have loved to see it played out here.
Besides that, all my favourite bits are from later in the series. That said, this was an amazing redo of the series and I have loved every minute of it.
Because damn, this book is so key to set up to how the book not only grows, but how the characters are slowly destroyed by war. That of course, shows the amazing themeing that Applegate had from the beginning, and damn I would have loved to see it played out here.
Besides that, all my favourite bits are from later in the series. That said, this was an amazing redo of the series and I have loved every minute of it.
June 30, 2025
3.5
Disappointed that it left out some major foreshadowing. Overall pretty good though.
Disappointed that it left out some major foreshadowing. Overall pretty good though.
March 5, 2025
I really enjoyed these graphic novels. I read the series when I was a kid and had them all at one point. I hope do the rest as graphic novels or at least the megamorphs.
June 8, 2025
I really hope they continue reimagining this series in graphic novel format! The Capture was wonderfully done, showing Jake getting infested by a Yeerk and how the gang dealt with that.
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September 7, 2025I have been waiting for The Capture ever since I heard about the plans for the graphic novel adaptation, and this did not disappoint! The greyscale Jake in his own head with Temrash-as-Jake in color? Brilliant.
May 24, 2025
things got intense!!
June 3, 2025
Just some more fun Animorphs content. This volume goes HARD with the morphs. We get to see the kids transitioning into bugs multiple times and it’s just the worst (but also, I’m impressed by the art direction with these still). The world building feels on pause here and we don’t get any really major climactic moments. This almost feels like a bottle episode that then focuses on what the kids can do to fight off the control of a Yeerk, and in that way, it provides a lot of satisfying interpersonal drama. This felt like a compelling two-parter television episode, but something that might come mid-season to raise some stakes without too much wheel spinning. Would have loved to see a bit of the fallout with Vizzer-3 at the end too, but that might be where we open next time?
November 16, 2025
I mean, I'm "enjoying" the story as much as this sort of story can be "enjoyed," I guess. It's a dystopian horror where they have to fight their own friends and family, who are captives of an alien race that slips into their bodies and take control. Feels pretty bleak, especially when there are untold numbers of the (invasive) aliens, and no one knows how many, or who is under their control.
The odd volume of the original series I read was particularly hard to read since it felt like things were just stagnating in a specific status quo so the series would never end, which doesn't help the feeling of bleakness. Part of that is I haven't managed to find enough of the books in sequence to tell if there was any progress one way or the other. Luckily, the graphic novel versions are releasing such that it's easier to keep up with them than finding the older originals, though it feels like the early books get a lot more progress than the later books because they have to reach a certain status quo before maintaining it.
Anyway, most of what happens in this volume specifically revolves around Jake and his brother Tom, and preserving the secret of the alien invasion from the non-possessed humans. The most headway they get is testing out more animal morphs for viability (social insects are out, after the ant experiment) and finding out a lot of key information regarding the Yeerks, through . It's pretty decent, though the general setting is still what keeps me from giving a solid 5-stars. (I gave that to book 3 mostly because I loved the improvements from the original.)
Recommended for fans of the series, sort of a hard sell to newcomers, as far as it being in the middle of the series. (At least start with the first one!)
The odd volume of the original series I read was particularly hard to read since it felt like things were just stagnating in a specific status quo so the series would never end, which doesn't help the feeling of bleakness. Part of that is I haven't managed to find enough of the books in sequence to tell if there was any progress one way or the other. Luckily, the graphic novel versions are releasing such that it's easier to keep up with them than finding the older originals, though it feels like the early books get a lot more progress than the later books because they have to reach a certain status quo before maintaining it.
Anyway, most of what happens in this volume specifically revolves around Jake and his brother Tom, and preserving the secret of the alien invasion from the non-possessed humans. The most headway they get is testing out more animal morphs for viability (social insects are out, after the ant experiment) and finding out a lot of key information regarding the Yeerks, through . It's pretty decent, though the general setting is still what keeps me from giving a solid 5-stars. (I gave that to book 3 mostly because I loved the improvements from the original.)
Recommended for fans of the series, sort of a hard sell to newcomers, as far as it being in the middle of the series. (At least start with the first one!)
May 20, 2025
Is this the last of the Animorphs Graphix comic book series? Will Chris Grine never touch pen to paper to bring to life another of the Applegate/Grant masterpieces? I certainly hope it isn't the end. I know a lot of others are feeling the same way.
The Capture is... rough. It bookends what started in The Invasion quite nicely, being a Jake-Centric book and focusing on his relationship with Tom as the driving force of conflict. When Jake learns that Tom is occupying a higher position within the Yeerk invasion than previously thought, he is put in a difficult position. Do he and the other Animorphs thwart the Yeerk plan to take over a hospital, thus putting Tom's life at risk? Or do they back off, and allow the Yeerks to infest countless innocents who go to the hospital for routine procedures and emergencies? It's a difficult moral quandary, and we all know how well the Animorphs books cover those.
I liked the way that Grine depicted Jake and his internal monologues - which take up a generous portion of the original text. The last third of the book was incredibly exciting, and had me on the edge of my seat. Of course, the same could be said for the second third of the book as well... And yes, the cockroaches were particularly disgusting and a delight to see and read. I can imagine this book will have a lot of cross-gender appeal due in part to some of those grosser scenes, ha.
I hope this isn't the end of the series, even if this is a pretty natural stopping point. It feels (and rightly so) like the story is only JUST starting to begin after all. The introduction of Visser One, Visser Three's human morph...
C'mon Scholastic, give us more!
The Capture is... rough. It bookends what started in The Invasion quite nicely, being a Jake-Centric book and focusing on his relationship with Tom as the driving force of conflict. When Jake learns that Tom is occupying a higher position within the Yeerk invasion than previously thought, he is put in a difficult position. Do he and the other Animorphs thwart the Yeerk plan to take over a hospital, thus putting Tom's life at risk? Or do they back off, and allow the Yeerks to infest countless innocents who go to the hospital for routine procedures and emergencies? It's a difficult moral quandary, and we all know how well the Animorphs books cover those.
I liked the way that Grine depicted Jake and his internal monologues - which take up a generous portion of the original text. The last third of the book was incredibly exciting, and had me on the edge of my seat. Of course, the same could be said for the second third of the book as well... And yes, the cockroaches were particularly disgusting and a delight to see and read. I can imagine this book will have a lot of cross-gender appeal due in part to some of those grosser scenes, ha.
I hope this isn't the end of the series, even if this is a pretty natural stopping point. It feels (and rightly so) like the story is only JUST starting to begin after all. The introduction of Visser One, Visser Three's human morph...
C'mon Scholastic, give us more!
April 22, 2025
I mean, I should be thankful.
Not like I was really expecting something grand when it came to the confrontations within his own mind when the MC got infected with THE ENEMY, but seriously? Him, but in black clothes?
Like I said, should be thankful since it could've just been him alone with menacing words, or heaven forbid, him just talking to an ACTUAL SLUG.
During an operation that goes slightly awry, the de-facto leader of the guerilla resistance to the invasion of brain-control slugs accidentally gets one of the slugs in his noggin. Thus, his friends stage an amazing intervention of stopping the rogue animal morpher til the alien mollusk dies of its natural nutrition. Kinda tense and for a critter that's lived so much longer than these children, it sure gets outsmarted at every turn because of home field advantage. Per the slug's words "YOUR PLANET IS TOO COMPLICATED!"
Not like I was really expecting something grand when it came to the confrontations within his own mind when the MC got infected with THE ENEMY, but seriously? Him, but in black clothes?
Like I said, should be thankful since it could've just been him alone with menacing words, or heaven forbid, him just talking to an ACTUAL SLUG.
During an operation that goes slightly awry, the de-facto leader of the guerilla resistance to the invasion of brain-control slugs accidentally gets one of the slugs in his noggin. Thus, his friends stage an amazing intervention of stopping the rogue animal morpher til the alien mollusk dies of its natural nutrition. Kinda tense and for a critter that's lived so much longer than these children, it sure gets outsmarted at every turn because of home field advantage. Per the slug's words "YOUR PLANET IS TOO COMPLICATED!"
September 28, 2025
I'll be sad if this is the end of the graphic novels. I absolutely love the series Animorphs and I was so glad I could get a piece of nostalgia and childhood back. With this sixth book, they're finally starting to delve into the more complicated themes of war and hope. There's still a layer of humor and lightness, but I'm starting to see the dark days that lie ahead.
Overall, Chris Grine did a pretty good job of summarizing this book, even though I would've liked if the part about the Yeerk and Jake had been a little bit longer. The images, the art style, the colors are all pretty great and I loved seeing the Animorphs transforming. Insects have a bigger role in this book and it was nice to see how the Animorphs are realizing that all creatures have their use in our world.
I'll be on the lookout if they ever decide to continue the graphic series, but overall, I'm really glad Animorphs has been presented to the newer generations. This is a very lovely series and I do recommend it to all who love YA and sci-fi!
Overall, Chris Grine did a pretty good job of summarizing this book, even though I would've liked if the part about the Yeerk and Jake had been a little bit longer. The images, the art style, the colors are all pretty great and I loved seeing the Animorphs transforming. Insects have a bigger role in this book and it was nice to see how the Animorphs are realizing that all creatures have their use in our world.
I'll be on the lookout if they ever decide to continue the graphic series, but overall, I'm really glad Animorphs has been presented to the newer generations. This is a very lovely series and I do recommend it to all who love YA and sci-fi!
May 8, 2025
This had so many awesome morphs in it! Hands down, best illustrations of the series so far. Just grotesque perfection and all the weird awkwardness of reshaping their bodies in an entirely ungraceful way.
My son was annoyed his favourite line didn’t make the cut, but not all the banter can fit in here I suppose. (It was in Jake’s head, and along the lines of “Shut up.” “No, I like annoying you.”)
I’m always surprised by just how dark these are for children’s book. There’s some straight up terrifying themes and I would caution those with sensitive or young children to look it over before passing it over to be read.
My son was annoyed his favourite line didn’t make the cut, but not all the banter can fit in here I suppose. (It was in Jake’s head, and along the lines of “Shut up.” “No, I like annoying you.”)
I’m always surprised by just how dark these are for children’s book. There’s some straight up terrifying themes and I would caution those with sensitive or young children to look it over before passing it over to be read.
March 5, 2025
It is still such a treat to get these books in this format! The art is really well done, especially all the morphs and the aliens. The overarching story is so impactful, and it deserves all the best. And this book in particular is one of the really exciting ones. I love how Chris Grine was able to show the internal communication that was going on! Can’t wait for the interview with him that is bound to happen on the podcast Animorphs Anonymous.
March 5, 2025
While a full fledged animated Animorphs series is unlikely in the future, at least the comic books are the closest thing that'll get to it. Even though it pretty much follows the book's beat for beat, I don't mind. It keeps the Animorphs spirit alive and there's honestly very little you can do to 'improve' from the original books anyhow. While the art style isn't the ideal rendition I was hoping for, I'm still happy that it stays true to the characters and am awaiting the next book eagerly.
June 6, 2025
This is currently the last graphic novel in the series out and there's no released plans of any other. I hope it continues in some incarnation because its another entry point into the Animorphs world for young readers.
This book is the yeerk one. And the way they did the visuals to represent those interactions worked well. The non-graphic book benefits from the one perspective. This version shows others as well.
This book is the yeerk one. And the way they did the visuals to represent those interactions worked well. The non-graphic book benefits from the one perspective. This version shows others as well.
August 14, 2025
The art is gorgeous. The morphs are satisfyingly gross, of course, and I will maintain that Animorphs is a horror series, especially body horror. I really liked the way the Yeerk and Jake switching contrasts as the story goes on. It is so subtle that I didn't notice until they finally switched. I hope we keep getting other graphic novels, but if we don't, at least I'm satisfied with the way they did the Capture. It's a quintessential Animorphs book.
March 6, 2025
Every one of these and Chris grine gets better and better at making the animal forms emote and seem, well, human. My only problem with it is they removed the bit where as the yeerk controlling Jake dies Jake gets a vision of crayak finally noticing him. That part chilled me to the bone as a child in the 90s.
March 12, 2025
I am pretty annoyed that this is most likely the last Animorph Graphic novel we get.
No David. Tragic.
This was as good a one to go out on as any other. I love seeing the Jake/Yeerk POV in this one. I was wondering how Grine was going to pull it off, and he did it really well. The artwork as usual was lovely.
No David. Tragic.
This was as good a one to go out on as any other. I love seeing the Jake/Yeerk POV in this one. I was wondering how Grine was going to pull it off, and he did it really well. The artwork as usual was lovely.
March 12, 2025
Another amazing Animorphs adaptation!
Chris Grine's incredibly creative mind brought this book to life in the most amazing ways. Pay close attention to all the clever details of what is one of my favorite Anamorphic books. He really did it justice. This book is a fun ride. See the Animorphs make their way through one of their most challenging adventures yet!
Chris Grine's incredibly creative mind brought this book to life in the most amazing ways. Pay close attention to all the clever details of what is one of my favorite Anamorphic books. He really did it justice. This book is a fun ride. See the Animorphs make their way through one of their most challenging adventures yet!
May 26, 2025
I really like this graphic novel series. I'm still debating whether or not I should read the actual novels. I think I'll continue with the graphic ones. This volume was good. i like that the stakes were somewhat high. I'm interested to see if they reveal the origin story between the yeerks and the andalites. I will keep reading these!
June 14, 2025
I do love the Animorphs series, which I discovered as an adult. I didn't get too far -- maybe 12 or so. This graphic novel adaptation is great -- a little intense at times, but I liked the way they chose to depict one of the main conflicts of the book. I read it aloud to my 7yo and 6yo sons. Some was over their head, but they enjoyed it.
July 27, 2025
4 stars (I really liked it)
So in the beginning of this book I was kind of done with the series. There were a lot of really grotesque morphs and I was getting over it. But then
So in the beginning of this book I was kind of done with the series. There were a lot of really grotesque morphs and I was getting over it. But then
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March 17, 2025I wonder how many One and Only Ivan fans are determined to read everything by Katherone Applegate and get traumatized by this series. The graphic novel visuals are so much more disturbing than the chapter books, even if the chapter books gave so much more detail.
June 15, 2025
Grine never disappoints! I was wondering how he would portray the parts with the Yeerk in Jake’s head and I was surprised by his choice, but in a good way. It would have been hard to illustrate a Yeerk with expressions.
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August 14, 2025
Ewww, the roach and fly morph was even grosser in this book than it always appeared in my imagination, and that’s saying a lot.
I loved how this showed the Yeerk talking to Jake and giving him flashbacks. It was all very well-done.
I loved how this showed the Yeerk talking to Jake and giving him flashbacks. It was all very well-done.
March 11, 2025
My favorite so far!!! This book was my favorite in the original series and this completely blew me away.
March 13, 2025
As someone who read the original series I loved how they did this book!
The artwork is incredible and I have loved revisiting the Animorphs in graphic novel style!!
The artwork is incredible and I have loved revisiting the Animorphs in graphic novel style!!
March 13, 2025
Just thinking about Tom makes me want to cry.
March 21, 2025
Art is excellent as always. This one is heavily slanted towards certain static art but Chris Grine does the best he can to make it engaging. Definitely one of the coolest Animorph storylines.
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