I genuinely feel like this graphic novel was made just for me. In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend Manfred: if Manfred can seduce Cherry in one hundred nights, he can have his castle-and Cherry.īut what Jerome doesn't know is that Cherry is in love with her maid Hero. If you have similar reading taste to me, I'd highly recommend checking this one out because I honestly think you'd love it! That being said, it wasn't anything too taxing to get through and definitely didn't ruin anything for me, only slowed down my progress slightly. I didn't quite give it 5 stars due to some stylistic choices - the small squiggly font proved hard to read at times and some spreads overwhelming if too much was featured on one page. I was baffled by how the stories then connected together, building a story of celestial magic that was exactly the sort of fairytale feel I love.
Until the moment they hit, and the point of the story made its mark. I didn't even realise how much I loved the stories until I read the final word of each one. It all wove together into something that made my literary heart sing.
Even less so was the numerous retellings and references woven into these stories, from retellings of fairytales such as the Twelve Dancing Princesses to possible references to famous literary gothic villains. What I didn't expect was the true folklore feel to it, the dark themes underlying the whimsy.
I love a retelling, so was already excited for this one. Their sharp and shaggy edges animate Greenberg's stories of giant-slaying adventure the dramatic contrast between dark and light makes the inky blackness of Nord winters particularly oppressive.This is a beautiful collection of stories, my word. The images in "The Encyclopedia of Early Earth" hew even closer in style to German Expressionist woodcuts. Only the Birdman's daughter, Kiddo, seems to care for the humans on earth - in part because she had a hand in creating them.īut, of course, this is really Greenberg's world, and the influence of David B., author of the acclaimed "Epileptic," is at work here. The medicine man, like the Birdman god who rules Early Earth, is feckless and uninterested. Our hero sets out on his quest after he discovers that a scrap of his soul escaped when a medicine man split him into three identical boys - one for each of the three sisters who found him on the bank of the lake. The terrain here feels familiar - Greenberg borrows left and right from the Bible, Greek mythology and folk tales - but that only makes it easier to plunge headlong into the icy waters of Nord, the storyteller's homeland.
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