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Day 23: Weapon
Haphaven by Norm Harper and Louie Joyce
Haphaven is a fun and exciting graphic novel about an adventure in a world connected to Earth's superstitions! I thought of this book when I saw the prompt was "Weapon" because of the plot, but I'm not going to reveal spoilers in this post.
I really loved the character arc of Alex Mills, and her story was really inspiring!! I really liked the character of Penny, a Leprechaun who helps Alex on her journey! Penny is about six inches tall, and she is a tough and reliable person. I feel like this story embraces the G/T elements in it, and it doesn't just use G/T as a joke or a gimmick. I'd recommend this book to any G/T fan! 😁
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Norm Harper and Louie Joyce’s Haphaven Returns in a Brand-New Deluxe Edition
Norm Harper and Louie Joyce’s Haphaven Returns in a Brand-New Deluxe Edition #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel
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Norm Harper Discusses Returning To 'Haphaven' For The New Deluxe Edition
Norm Harper discusses the new edition of Haphaven, his fantasy graphic novel, now coming out from Oni Press in this new interview.
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Norm Harper Discusses Returning To 'Haphaven' For The New Deluxe Edition
Norm Harper discusses the new edition of Haphaven, his fantasy graphic novel, now coming out from Oni Press in this new interview.
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Norm Harper & Louie Joyce’s HAPHAVEN Returns in a Brand-New Deluxe Edition From @OniPress. #comics #comicbooks https://ow.ly/wj0h50QT8R8
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Creators: Norm Harper, Louie Joyce / Letterer: Ocean Ransford / Lion Forge Comics
Step on a crack / Break your mother’s back
How superstitious are you? Super superstitious? Maybe just stitious? But have you thought about all the familial traditions, the stories we share generation from generation, the odd habits we pick up because it has become engrained in your being, your very core? Have you thought what it would be like to confront both history and fantasy? Well thankfully Harper and Joyce have you covered with their latest graphic novel, Haphaven.
Haphaven tells the story of Alex Mills, who (among other things) is the exceedingly superstitious daughter of a baseball player and descendent of a famed gambler Zane who never lost a card game as long he had fishhooks (a colloquial for holding two jacks). All the exposition is told brilliant in the opening prologue of the book before we pivot to the story. Alex lost her father due to a terrible accident due to a terrible storm, and she and her mother are still adjusting to the new status quo years after the fact. Before long though, a childhood rhyme proves a little more dangerous than anyone could believe and Alex’s mother breaks her back. When a little leprechaun shows up and offers a chance to save her mother Alex all but leaps at the call to go to a fantastical world of Haphaven armed with nothing but a baseball bat and her wits.
And thus sets the stage for the graphic novel. Told in five chapters, Haphaven follows your conventional structure for your coming-of-age novel where a young teen has to embark on a great quest with vast implication on both a personal and world encompassing level. While overexcited teen excitedly accepts the call to action isn’t the biggest variation on the formula, Harper and Joyce do manage to make their story has its own unique charm. Haphaven is sort of a mid-fantasy world, it lacks the dragon and antics of sorcerers and wizards but being the source of all power for all of Earth’s superstitions also means that we’re not dealing with a world that is scarce in magics and magical creatures.
You have airships piloted by leprechaun crews, talking animals, and some monsters unique to the world. Plus, Alex Mills is a biracial (half white, half black) protagonist and since representation matters literally every day, it’s always nice when these stories don’t default to your typical white male teen. It also helps that Harper helps flesh out the world both through anecdotes about Alex’s ancestor Zane that help create a sense of grandness of the story and including a textual history of the land with each chapter.
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Graphic novel review: Haphaven
Short version: When Alexia’s father is killed, she turns to an obsession with superstitions. Then her mother falls into a coma, and she is visited by a leprechaun who tells her that her family is cursed, and the only cure is to get involved in the politics of an alternate world where superstition is not only fact, but law.
What I thought: Got a mixed feel here. On the one hand it feels very tight and intentional like a movie, and on the other, that’s not really what you look for in a graphic novel. At least, not what I look for. I like complicated characters, political intrigue that’s got more than a couple of players, and world-building that hints at a vast expanse that’s way bigger than just the people we see. Haphaven doesn’t do those things, but it was not intended as an adult graphic, so a lot of it’s forgivable.
What I do like is that because it’s not meant as an adult graphic, the thinking of the prepubescent mind shows up fast and strong, and it works. Alexia doesn’t even question it when a leprechaun shows up in her bedroom, doesn’t think it’s weird that her mother falls into a coma directly after she stepped on a crack (”break your mother’s back”), and doesn’t waste any time diving straight into the fairy world and learning its rules at running speed. You don’t have to waste any time with the whole ”this can’t be real” schpiel you hear so often in these types of situations because Alixia is already so used to believing in weird stuff without question.
It raises a lot of points about free will and how much influence your family history actually does have, not to mention a wonderfully human approach to an annoyingly random element (a certain pistol will fire something with unlimited ammo, but never the same thing twice. It could be a bullet, it could be cotton candy, it could be the person next to you). Unfortunately, the graphic does this by being a bit repetitive, and I felt like it could have just made each point once if it had been more powerfully written. Overall a good, light story that had the potential to be much more impactful but got shy at the last second.
Read if you liked: Estranged by Ethan Alridge, Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi, Joe the Barbarian by Grant Morrison.
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The Haphaven Review is now up! Link in the bio! @lionforge #haphaven #louiejoyce #normharper #lionforge #comicbooks #reviews https://www.instagram.com/p/BuXz7O8gI18/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tppoj1ewpmo3
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Quick review Haphaven - Norm Harper & Louie Joyce #Haphaven #NormHarper #LouieJoyce #NetGalley
Haphaven - Norm Harper and Louie Joyce Alex, a twelve going on thirteen-year-old girl, lives her life by the painstaking rules of every superstition.
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WRITERS BLOCK 24:
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT. David and Rylend have a state of the kids/Y.A. comic union pow-wow with Eisner nominees Norm Harper (Rikki, Haphaven) and Emma Steinkellner (Quince, The Okay Witch). Rylend is made more than a bit jealous when he puts eyes on the grand lego city Norm has built in his spare bedroom… but he’s borderline inconsolable when he learns that the residents of said town elected Norm Mayor-for-life.
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Haphaven [Noam Harper]; Throwback Thursday #bookblog #bookbloggers "...at the end of the day but I know that I'd have a blast reading this to any kid I might have in the future..." I was pretty impressed, overall, with Haphaven by Norm Harper and Louie Joyce. A graphic novel centered around the idea of luck--be it good or bad--and the world in which it exists wholly to balance out ours,
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Book Launch! Haphaven artist Louie Joyce in conversation with Ryan K Lindsay Sunday 31st March
Award winning comic creator LOUIE JOYCE joins us from 4pm on Sunday 31st of March for an evening of talking comics and superstition to celebrate the launch of the new graphic novel HAPHAVEN! Get an extra insight into creating comics…
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Haphaven by Norm Harper
About Haphaven:
Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit's feet . . . you name it. That is until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother's back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty leprechaun, on a journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth's superstitions draw their power. All she needs is a rabbit's foot to save her mom, but she soon discovers the lucky article won't be so easy to retrieve. Not only is the rabbit's foot guarded by Haphaven's most formidable creature, the Jinx, there's also a forest full of trees that knock back if you don't knock on wood, people named Penny who do not like to be picked up, and a particularly vindictive black cat who will not be crossed. As Alex finds herself desperately searching for a way to save her mom, she learns of a mysterious connection between her family's fate and the rulers of Haphaven. With her mother's life on the line and her own fate at stake, Alex must find the strength within herself to unlock the mystery and take back control of the superstitions that have controlled her life, even if it means crossing the Black Cat once and for all.
Written by: Norm Harper
Illustrated by: Louie Joyce
Targeted Age Group: Young Adult
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LION FORGE March 2019 Solicitations
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STILETTO #1 (OF 3) OFFICER DOWN
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HAPHAVEN GN
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After stepping on a crack and breaking her mother's back, ever superstitious Alex Mills must journey to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth's superstitions draw their power. On the search for the lucky rabbit's foot to save her mom, Alex learns that breaking with superstition might be the key to saving her mom, even if it means she could get jinxed along the way.
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Lionforge Releases San Diego Comic Con Plans
Lionforge Releases San Diego Comic Con Plans
Lionforge has released their special plans for panels and signings for the 2019 San Diego Comic Con, including time with Sarah Graley.
Here’s the scoop:
Fans will get multiple chances to meet some of their favorite creators throughout the show, with days and times outlined below:
Thursday, July 18
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Gene Ha (Mae)
12:30–1:30 p.m.: Norm Harper (Haphaven)
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.:…
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About Haphaven:
Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit’s feet . . . you name it. That is until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother’s back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty leprechaun, on a journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth’s superstitions draw their power. All she needs is a rabbit’s foot to save her mom, but she soon discovers the lucky article won’t be so easy to retrieve. Not only is the rabbit’s foot guarded by Haphaven’s most formidable creature, the Jinx, there’s also a forest full of trees that knock back if you don’t knock on wood, people named Penny who do not like to be picked up, and a particularly vindictive black cat who will not be crossed. As Alex finds herself desperately searching for a way to save her mom, she learns of a mysterious connection between her family’s fate and the rulers of Haphaven. With her mother’s life on the line and her own fate at stake, Alex must find the strength within herself to unlock the mystery and take back control of the superstitions that have controlled her life, even if it means crossing the Black Cat once and for all.
Written by: Norm Harper
Illustrated by: Louie Joyce
Targeted Age Group: Young Adult
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