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chidren's middlegrade/teen graphic novel - adventure with monsters, Shakespearean humor (minus the bawdy)

fun series, recommended to me by someone who enjoys stories with great world building and lots of humorous banter. You can pick this up without reading the first two, but you may want to go back and get the rest of them when you're done
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reader1009 | 1 outra resenha | Nov 27, 2021 |
Strong female lea...No! Kickass Skeleton Bard!

One word: Epic. The first volume shows the true potential of what is yet to come. Full of smart humor. It's a great story. The characters are strong and well built visually and emotionally. The variance of style makes great shifts and what a perfect way to start the story. Many moments took me back to my youth where I surrounded myself with lots of D&D, games, movies and books that are still part of my main influences. I can't wait for the next volume.… (mais)
 
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Waleni | outras 3 resenhas | Oct 10, 2021 |
This is a fun graphic novel that puts a satirical spin on medieval fantasy yarns. At first I thought it might be a ripoff of one of my favorite book series from a few years ago, "Skullduggery Pleasant," because that too has a walking, talking, witty and clothed skeleton for a main character, and how often do you see *that* in books for teens?! But this is entirely different, aside from those initial similarities. Our friend Rickety is a troubadour (or minstrel), lives in a vaguely medieval time period, and has weird dreams/nightmares of surviving a horrible battle, all underlaid with the strains of an epic ballad that he can not *quite* remember when he wakes up. (I loved that the book is in color but those dreams/memories are in black and white.) Rickety has a weird little friend, The Gelatinous Goo, a cube of, well, goo, whose incomprehensible noises only Rickety can understand. The Goo is quite funny and pretty expressive for a blue glob of Jell-O, it's really hilarious as a sidekick! The two get fired from their job haunting a dungeon, and, all alone in the world, Rickety decides to try to figure out where he's from, what he was like as a living human, and what IS that song all about, "The Road to Epoli"? Along their journey through "Grimly Wood" they encounter an imp, they get mixed up with a nasty giant ogre, and there's a cute gnome named "L. Nerman Fuddle" (really, the names in this book are hilarious! At one point the imp disguises himself as "Chet Whistlefeet"), and then there comes the heart of the story, the evil of course, and more fantasy tropes twisted around a bit. OH! Did I mention the unicorn?! Because it's not your normal shy unicorn! I won't go on, but I do hope this series goes on for quite a bit, because I had a terrific time reading it. Rickety is snide and witty and yet also mournful--he has a soul. There are some innuendo jokes for older readers and plenty of gross-out humor for younger readers. The expressive bold art is great, too. Amazing how many expressions you can put on a cartoon skeleton's skull face!… (mais)
 
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GoldieBug | outras 3 resenhas | Jan 23, 2019 |

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