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Review: Seekers of the Aweto Vol. 1 The Hunt is On
Seekers of the Aweto Vol. 1 The Hunt is On features some amazing art but a narrative that doesnât feel complete and fleshed out #Comics #ComicBooks
Xinyue, his brother Qiliu, and their mother are seekers, hunting awetoâa rare, plantlike treasureâalong the legendary Silk Road.
Xinyue discovers the offspring of a deity that creates aweto and becomes its caretaker struggling to keep it safe.
Seekers of the Aweto Vol. 1 The Hunt is On is the first of a four volume series.
Story: Nie JunArt: Nie JunTranslation: Edward Gauvin
Get your copyâŠ
Top New TPB/Hardcover Releases for the Week of March 3rd, 2021.
Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Tp v11,
Boys Dear Becky Tp v1,
Bad Mother Tp,
Doctor Doom Tp v2 Bedford Falls,
Maestro Tp Symphony in the key Gamma,
Savage Avengers Tp Enter the Dragon +
Transformers 84 Tp Secrets & Lies.
A closer look at a panel from this weekâs new Apeiron page.
Review: Breaklands Vol. 1
Breaklands Vol. 1 weaves together a strong, albeit familiar, narrative but the world created doesnât do much to support the story #Comics #ComicBooks
The first story arc of Breaklands is being collected in trade paperback for the first time. This genre-bending adventure series, written by Justin Jordan, was developed by Dark Horse Comics and digitally published as a ComiXology Original. The story is set in a dystopian future where people have developed psychic powers. These psychic abilities have become a part of nearly every aspect of life.âŠ
Will Eisner: A Contract with God and Alice
To celebrate #WillEisner week, learn about the artistâs daughter and how she inspired the creation of the first graphic novel.
Her Fatherâs Daughter
Will Eisner with baby Alice (1953/1954)
Alice Eisner was born on October 21, 1953, and according to her mother Ann, âAlice was very much her fatherâs daughter. She had his temperament and compassion. Whenever she heard on TV that someone was starving, [I] had to send somethingâ (Andelman 2005, 130). Despite Annâs role as the disciplinarian, Will could not resist AliceâsâŠ
Stunning Steampunk Fairytale WIKA is Out March 16
Stunning Steampunk Fairytale WIKA is Out March 16 #Comics #ComicBooks
Wika
Writer: Thomas DayArtist: Olivier LedriotPublisher: Titan ComicsHardcover, 128pp, $39.99, ÂŁ36.99On sale March 2021ISBN: 9781787735927
After narrowly escaping an uprising that claims the lives of her parents, Wika, the last of a royal line of fairies, must evade the assassins on her trail long enough to discover the secret of her lineage. Uncover Thomas Dayâs first comic book story â a darkâŠ
Preview: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker preview. Combining the epic wonder of Star Wars with streamlined, young-reader friendly designs. #Comics #ComicBooks #StarWars
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Alessandro Ferrari (A) VARIOUS (CA) Cryssy CheungIn Shops: Mar 03, 2021SRP: $9.99
Faithfully bringing events from the film to the comics page! Read along in The Rise of Skywalker as Poe faces the challenges of leadership, Finn and Rose make impossible decisions for the greater good, and Rey finally confronts her destiny. The true threat to the galaxy is revealedâŠ
Anyone know any good comic books or graphic novels that are super fucking queer, please let me know :))
Guys this book was hella good
MonsterVerse Titanthology Volume 1 GN (2021)
Kingdom Kong GN (2021)
Godzilla Dominion GN (2021)
Art by: Arthur Adams and Allen Passalaqua
EMILY LAZAR (SEPTEMBER MOURNING) Leads the Way Launching Music and Animation NFT
EMILY LAZAR (SEPTEMBER MOURNING) Leads the Way Launching Music and Animation NFT
March 1, 2021 â Emily Lazar is the first female rock/ metal front person to create and launch a music and animation NFT (Non-fungible token), on Friday, March 5, 2021.
Emily created and leads September Mourning, a transmedia project spanning music, animation, graphic novels, video, costume design and more. Naturally, she wanted to expand the universe of September Mourning into NFTs, a new realmâŠ
March TBR! This month has more comic books and graphic novels on it so Iâm very excited. I was having a hard time actually sitting down and focusing on reading so hopefilly these will help. I only finished one book from my February TBR so Iâm hoping March is better!
Favorite Shonen Manga Vol.2!
Favorite Shonen Manga Vol.2!
Today on the blog, Iâm delving into the wonderful world of Shonen Manga! If youâre interested in seeing my previous post on Shonen Manga click here!
 For those who are unfamiliar with the term. âShonen Mangaâ is aimed at a teenage male target-demographic readership. ShĆnen manga stories are action-packed and may feature different themes, such as martial arts, robots, scienceâŠ
You know what I am tired of adults dismissing graphic novels.
âI just want my kids to read REAL booksâ
'I donât want my kids to read these because they have picturesâ
'My kids only read these because theyâre lazyâ
Hisssssssssssss
If you like reading graphic novels, I, your friendly neighborhood librarian would like you to know that:
Graphic novels are real books. My head hurts when I start to think of the implication that fake books exist. *cries in librarian* donât start, Patty, iâm too tired
Pictures in graphic novels (and other types of material) add to the story in ways that go beyond the words. If you took away the illustrations the story would be very confusing if not impossible to understand. You read the illustrations, too, which often set the tone of the story, provide emotional depth, and cue other literary elements such as symbolism and foreshadowing. Just like the text, the illustrations are intentional and meant to be read. tl;dr the illustrations do not make graphic novels lesser than books with text only
READING GRAPHIC NOVELS IS NOT LAZY. Itâs just not and I donât need to explain myself because this whole argument is just trash
So to sum up:
1. Graphic novels are real books
2. Illustrations do not make graphic novels lesser than books with text only
3. Reading graphic novels is not lazy
Again:
1. Graphic novels are real books
2. Illustrations do not make graphic novels lesser than books with text only
3. Reading graphic novels is not lazy
And if you really want to upset someone who disagrees, try listening to the audio version of a graphic novel if you can (⥠⿠⥠âż)
Reading with Robin: Midnighter and Apollo
Reading with Robin: Midnighter and Apollo
Hey there, everyone! Welcome to another installment of Reading with Robin! As a librarian who loves to read, I also love to talk about books and connect other readers with books they can fall in love with. In these posts, Iâm going to talk about what Iâve been reading, what I liked about the book, and who Iâd recommend the book to next.
This entryâs book is: Midnighter and Apollo written byâŠ
1. Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
Avatar: The Last Airbender Gets Chibified in Avatar: The Last Airbender - Chibi: Aangâs Unfreezing Day
Avatar: The Last Airbender Gets Chibified in Avatar: The Last Airbender - Chibi: Aangâs Unfreezing Day #Comics #ComicBooks
Dark Horse Books and Nickelodeon have revealed a new line of books for the smallest fans of Avatar the Last Airbender in the upcoming book line Avatar: The Last AirbenderâChibi, launching September 2021!
Avatar: The Last AirbenderâChibi launches with Aangâs Unfreezing Day. When Aang was frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years, he managed to forget his birthday! Luckily his friends Katara, Toph,âŠ
Preview: Seekers of Aweto Vol. 1 The Hunt is On
Seekers of Aweto Vol. 1 The Hunt is On preview. Xinyue, his brother Qiliu, and their mother are seekers, hunting aweto - a rare, plantlike treasure - along the legendary Silk Road. #Comics #ComicBooks
Seekers of Aweto Vol. 1 The Hunt is On
Nie Jun (A/CA) Nie JunIn Shops: Mar 03, 2021SRP: $9.99
Xinyue, his brother Qiliu, and their mother are seekers, hunting aweto â a rare, plantlike treasure â along the legendary Silk Road. After one outing, Xinyue discovers the offspring of a deity that creates aweto-and becomes the little creatureâs reluctant caretaker. He soon struggles to keep it safeâŠ
âJohn David Ebert, Giant Humans, Tiny Worlds: Adventures in the Universe of Graphic Novels
Speaking of British Invasion comics, as we were yesterday, and of Justin Murphyâs Salon des CancelĂ©s, as we were last week, I give you this quotationâand I semi-apologize for the bad phone scan, but Iâm not typing all that out.Â
Ebert is a popular YouTube theorist and an author of both traditionally- and independently- published books. I first heard of him only last month, and then I noticed he was ubiquitous on the independent intellectual side of the online world. I even heard reference to him in the polite purlieus of BookTubeâamid the theory, he has good videos on Pynchon and McCarthy. Has he actually been cancelĂ©? As far as I can tell, itâs more that he doesnât engage with culture on the now-requisite sociopolitical level. Like certain old-fashioned liberals, he both talks to anyone of any ideological persuasion and takes a hard line on free speech; but his own politics, as far as I can tell, are simply what âliberalâ used to be, when liberalism was much more open to material like Jung than it is currently, now that the main agenda appears to be gentrifying Marxism and separatist identity politics for the benefit of corporatism, not that they didnât used to manipulate headier stuff to similar ends (power does what it can with what it finds to handâno art or philosophy is perfectly safe, though no art or philosophy is totally compromised either).Â
Anyway, alert to signs of life in independent publishing, I decided to check out one of his many books, and where better to begin than the one on graphic novels, a special if vexed interest of mine. He interprets the graphic novelâan evolved comic book that, like other evolving lifeforms, grew a spineâas a typical product of a late-stage civilization, a visual narrative about âthe soulâs conquest of evil.â Ebert adduces precursors like The Books of the Netherworld in 1500 BCE Egypt and the palm-leaf manuscripts of the late Mughal period in India, periods when an exhausted high cultureâs final expressions came in the forms of lively picture stories. He further argues that the graphic novel is an essentially adolescent form concerned with âthe quest of the self to construct an identity in an age of liquid signifiers,â which fits with the well-known fact that the two most prominent genres of American graphic novel are the memoir and the superhero saga, both of them focusing on the bildung of a young protagonist. In his âWorld Clockâ survey of 24 graphic novels, Ebert makes one excursion to Europeâto talk Moebiusâand two to the U.S. indie sceneâCharles Burns, Chris Ware (whose Jimmy Corrigan he overpraises as the graphic Ulysses)âbut he mostly dwells on the Anglo-American mainstream and the superhero genre he interprets as a psychological immune system of postmodern myths to guard the metropole. Interested only in the post-1970s so-called Dark Age of Superhero Comics, the epoch of the genreâs maturation, Ebert sees the superhero as protecting and assembling a postmodern world in the ruins of those modern master narratives in which no one can believe:
In a way, every graphic novel is always already situated on the inside of the world space that Thomas Pynchon, as a great visionary artist foreseeing what was coming, had already imagined in his novel Gravityâs Rainbow, a work of literature that forms a transitionâin a manner similar to the way that Don Quixote was transitioning from the horizon of the Medieval world to that of Modernityâfrom the world space of the utopian novel to the crumbling world ruins of the graphic novel which situates its various giant humans amongst the strewn rocks and shattered rubble of its collapsed structures.
He unsparingly observes the rise and fall of the â80s generation writers, as itâs clear that the work of Moore, Miller, and Gaiman isnât by the 21st century what it once wasâthe formâs adolescence strikes again. (I was surprised by the bookâs relative lack of Morrison, represented only by Arkham Asylum and We3, given the shared ground of occultism.) Ebert has a habit of imposing theory on his chosen critical objects rather than unfolding significance from the specificity of the textâis Watchmen really about the resurfacing of Meso-American cultural practices according to which the mask consumes its wearer?âbut heâs always psychedelic and often gets the balance right.
The passage above interests me because, though Iâve never been a Heideggerean, it finds that uncanny core in Sandman that Gaiman never really reached again. Also because I once wrote a paper on the politics of Sandman that centered on âThermidor.â This was 2007, and I couched it as a critique of American liberalismâs Bush-era self-congratulating self-designation as âthe reality-based community.â In my reading, Gaiman exposes this faith in reasonâs untrammeled access to reality as itself a modern mythâa deadly one at that. On the other hand, Gaimanâs overall point in Sandman is that the new god is a better (because more humane) one than the old, so the Enlightenment faith in progress, and the Christian narrative it arguably reprises, survives in his epic. I think the line in my paper went something like this: âTo oppose the Terror is not to oppose the Revolution.â I wouldnât put it that way now, but I also wouldnât rule out a priori our making a future better than the past.
