Super Sisters

by Christophe Cazenove, William Maury (Illustrator), Nanette McGuinness (Translator)

Being a sister is super! Being a super sister is even better! From the pages of THE SISTERS and spinning out of Maureen and Wendy’s imagination, these two siblings are donning flight packs and space suits to keep the galaxy safe! They battle intergalactic thieves and multi-limbed troublemakers but can all their sisterly-fights prepare them for their greatest foes…their clones?

Genres: Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels, Childrens

96 pages, Paperback

Published April 7, 2020

About the author

Christophe Cazenove was born in Martigues in 1969. A lifelong comics fan, Christophe's first efforts led to a twelve year career … in supermarkets! Toward the tenth year of his employment in frozen foods, one of his projects attracted the attention of comics writer and editor Olivier Sulpice: Predictions of Nostra. After that, he regularly worked for French publisher Bamboo putting his humor to work on series like Gendarmes, the Fire, the Driving School and finally The Sisters. He also participates in the collection "Sport" with Basketball Dunk while writing less thematic stories, such as Area 51. He is also co-writer of the collection "Fades". More recently, he wrote the screenplay for Eden Globe-Trotter, The Adventures of Gullia, My Mother and Me.

Reviews

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This graphic novel is about two sisters who have super powers. The eldest sister seems to always be belittling and putting the younger sister down, yet the youngest sister is the one who usually saves the day in the end - meaning to or not.
This is an ok book but could have been better such as an introduction as to where the live and the world around them.

[Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book* · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super Sisters by Chistophe Cazenove, 92 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL. Papercutz, 2020. $15.

Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG

BUYING ADVISORY: MS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Wendy and Maureen save the world with their powers, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get on each other’s nerves. When Maureen develops a new power, she uses it to get her way and annoy Wendy. Luckily, this new power might also be just the thing to defeat the latest villain.

We first meet Wendy and Maureen in a few shorts that come before the main episode. I enjoyed that opportunity to understand their characters before jumping into their adventure. Cazenove cleverly makes this super-sister-duo relatable for readers with siblings and uses their sister dynamic to the advantage of the heroines. The mature content is for revealing outfits on some of the female characters, and the violence rating is for hero and villain battles (without gore).

Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/2020...

[Theediscerning · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reasonable, but no better, this collection of short adventures for two young super-powered sisters, is most peculiar in how little we're allowed to know about their world and what's going on before we're dumped into things, but gets the time to build into something more understandable by the time we're finished and a longer, more dramatic piece concerning their clones comes along. The older, darker-haired sister is forever talking in asides about how lazy, ineffective or otherwise defective her younger, blonder sibling is, while her shtick is to always get her words in a twist – and to be the actual one to save the day. It's all OK for the target audience, but why we're dumped into the middle of an alien battle with talk of alien planets, sensei-type characters and attributes we've never heard of before, I will never know. Can't we be allowed to care for these girls first, or at least know who the heck they are?!

[Wayne McCoy · Rating 2 out of 5]

'Super Sisters' by Christophe Cazenove with illustration by William Maury is a graphic novel about sisters Wendy and Maureen from another graphic novel called The Sisters.

Wendy and Maureen in this book imagine they are superheroes. They get on each other's nerves even as superheroes, but also have unique strengths that each needs. They fight criminals in a science fiction world, but still go to school. They find their greatest threat in their own clones.

There isn't a lot of context to get in to this. For that, I assume you need to read the previous stories. The younger sibling has a habit of mangling every phrase and parroting it back. This gets annoying pretty quickly. The art is fine, but there is some pin up style art along the way that makes me wonder who this title is supposed to appeal to.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Papercutz and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

[Carolina Colleene · Rating 3 out of 5]

Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG
Wendy and Maureen save the world with their powers, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get on each other’s nerves. When Maureen develops a new power, she uses it to get her way and annoy Wendy. Luckily, this new power might also be just the thing to defeat the latest villain.
We first meet Wendy and Maureen in a few shorts that come before the main episode. I enjoyed that opportunity to understand their characters before jumping into their adventure. Cazenove cleverly makes this super-sister-duo relatable for readers with siblings and uses their sister dynamic to the advantage of the heroines. The mature content is for revealing outfits on some of the female characters, and the violence rating is for hero and villain battles (without gore).
Reviewed for https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was adorable. Two young girls, sisters, have super powers and come across many situations where they need to use their power to save themselves, others, and the universe in general. I’m not familiar with the series so I don’t know much about them but I didn’t feel lost or anything. These are a bunch of short comics about their different adventures. I felt the author did a good job of capturing the antics between sisters (as an older sister of a brat, I know a lot about this topic). I think my nieces will enjoy this book and can’t wait to tell them that their mom and I acted just like that, minus the superpowers of course.
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Tracey Vince · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read a copy of Super Sisters by Christophe Cazenove through Netgalley and I was a bit underwhelmed. I was excited that Super Sisters was another Middle Grade Graphic Novel with a kick ass story but instead I got short comics. I did not get to find out where the Super Sisters came from and how they got their powers. It would of been good that there was actually one enemy instead. The only saving grace was the artwork it was amazing just a shame there was no real story so I will have to give it 2 stars

[Syreeta Moore · Rating 4 out of 5]

This silly book is based off the imaginations of the two sisters. If you've read the first two or so books in the series, we can see one or two pages that give snippets of their evil-fighting adventures. The book is full of one or two page-long stories, not a full graphic novel (kind of like a compilation of newspaper comics). It's funny and relatable for those with vivid imaginations and siblings.

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you net galley for the chance to review! This book is about two sisters with magic powers. The older sister seems to always be putting down the little sister and in the end the little sister ends up saving the day. To be honest I was confused when reading this book. there wasnt enough information to understand their world. Also one thing that really bugged me is that the younger sister talked like a baby.

[Kristy Thiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter thought this book was just okay. She wanted desperately to like it, as it had a great premise, but had a hard time getting into it. This is a graphic novel, that discusses the relationship between two sisters that had super powers. There was very little understanding of the life they live and the world they live in. I felt this book could have been better, had they gone into more detail about their history.

[Benjamin Elliott · Rating 3 out of 5]

As fantasy breaks in the standard sisters stories a la Spaceman Spiff, these have been cute little asides. As a whole dedicated volume, it was fine but didn't all land for me. The extended story at the end was good, but some of the earlier vignettes dragged. They were longer than the 1-2 page scenes to her to punchline they normally were presented in but not so much longer you could really develop a real story.

[Andréa]

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.

[Raven Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two sisters have adventures as superheroes which tend to go a bit coo-coo bird crazy. However, there is more depth to it then just that quick summary. These sisters argue, go to school, deal with friends, and fight evil. A companion to Maureen and Wendy's "Sister series" graphic novels.