G-Man and Giarrusso Style Connor

Mikey goes in for a high-five with the axe wielding star of Assassin's Creed III, Connor Kenway.

We've been reading (and rereading) the three G-Man books by Chris Giarrusso over the last few days.  

As I am very well aware of my sons' interest in the character, I showed them Chris's "Weekly Wednesday Sketch of Connor Kenway yesterday.  Ansel immediately told me he wanted a G-Man style Connor on today's napkin.

I was perhaps overly ambitious and put the two characters together.  Ansel looked at it this morning and said "Nice.  But I want the other one for tomorrow."  (Meaning: "Copy Chris's sketch exactly, Mom!) Innovation has never been encouraged by my children.

Stork And Christmas Tree From Chris Giarrusso's "G-Man" Series

The Baby Eating Stork and The Christmas Tree of Doom:
Two of my sons' favorite characters.

The tree appears in the first book, "Learning to Fly", where it becomes animate and violently escapes while being decorated by the unsuspecting family. The tree then breaks through the front of their house and steals the family car. It later returns while in Santa's employ to make amends, but parks the car on the roof, leading to further damage to the house.

The stork appears in the most recent G-Man book, "Coming Home" and does pretty much what is culturally expected of a stork... except he does threaten to eat the baby, and he has a mouth full of baby-eating teeth.

My sons find this to be side-splittingly funny.

Mini-Marvels Red Skull & Capt America for Ansel

 

While our kids often claim to be uninterested in Marvel characters, Chris Giarrusso's "Mini Marvels" books are always good.  Ansel asked for a Mini Marvels style Red Skull.  I did my best to comply as there was not an obviously google-able rendition by Mr. Giarrusso to work from.

Red Skull and Captain America for Ansel

Ansel has learned how to play Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty from his older brother.  He says it's pretty good, although you don't get to actually punch Red Skull.