Ghost Hog is just plain fun. This is a book I would gladly share with young graphic novel readers (as well as readers I was interested in hooking on the medium). Heck, even as an adult, I greatly enjoyed this clever and energetic book.

This was a pretty cute children's comic book about a little hog named Truff who haunts a plum tree while waiting for The Hunter so that she can get her revenge. Two forest spirits try to get her to move on and focus her energy on finding her family instead of The Hunter. Meanwhile, Truff's parents are looking for her and somehow end up in the clutches of a mountain demon.

Pros:
I thought the graphics were really cute, although I feel like Truff looks more like a young moose than a hog. I also really like the two forest spirits, especially Claude, who looks like an adorable tiny bundle of leaves. Finally, I really like how the story starts and ends with humans sharing scary stories about the legendary Ghost Hog.

Cons:
To be honest, I found the story to be too simple and juvenile - which I guess should be expected, seeing as it's a children's book. Even so, I felt like the key message (of moving on?) in this book was glossed over - Truff overcame her desire for revenge way too easily and she doesn't actually end up moving on...

An all-ages fantasy that actually works better than it sounds. So there's a bear who's a ghost, and is intent on haunting the area it's died in, in particular to rid it of a certain human hunter. It gets dissuaded and taken on an adventure by a walking cabbage/apple hybrid thing and a sort-of-ectoplasmic figure a bit like those dancing balloon men atop fans outside car showrooms. It's then that the bear finds its parents have been employed by a huge rock demon, who has a whole slave army trying to free him from imprisonment under the hill upon which the whole story is playing out… In truth, then, it would have to be better than it sounds, which is clearly not difficult, and it is much better. The only hiccup is that the artwork, the whole sensibility and everything, never really got across proof of the bear being female. It seemed like such a typical juvenile male I never felt at ease with the opposite being the case. I think the back cover blurb and quotes layer on the idea of this as having a moral a bit too thickly, but I certainly enjoyed it for its entertainment values. Some very basic artwork could have been better here and there, but was not to its detriment. On the whole it's a great one for the kids, and you could file is as a gateway book to the great Bone epic.