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sorcyressBut there is a good out of the whole bookstore debacle! Namely, that I got my hands on some new comic books!
The first one was easy --they had copies of Mouse Guard, which, I will admit, I want primarily because Dub-Dub1 reads it. But, I mean, I *have* heard good things about it. Also, damn it's pretty.
The second was harder. Skimming through the selection of teen graphic novels2, my hand landed on something entitled "Rapunzel's Revenge"
Let's get two things straight before we begin this:
That's the one that I just spent an hour or two reading, start to finish. And oh my god, I love this book! I'm no good at book reviews, so I'm just going to put some things into a list:
Lemme put it this way --I have another character on my really damn short3 list of characters I find so awesome I want to cosplay them.
Book highly recommended. For pretty much every age after they can start reading. I don't recall any swear words, there's no real sex, some violence, and some scary bits, but nothing graphic. And if you'll excuse me, I think I'm gonna go draw some fanart now.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Dub-Dub. As in, Wendy Watson. As in, the main character of Middleman, and she is awesome, don't you pay attention to these things?
2: Can I just mention that my heart melted into a lovey-dovey pile of goo when I realized this? I may have swooned from delight. I am really really irritated that that one clerk is being an asshat, because Porter Square Books is such a delightful little bookstore!
3: Well, okay, really damn short if you don't count the fact that I want to cosplay everyone ever from the Middleman4. It's pretty much just Hermione Hatchett from "The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage", and...and...um...there has to be someone else...oh! And Tobi from the Broadway revival version of Sweeney Todd. And Gwynn from Sluggy Freelance, and one secret project that's less a wanting to cosplay, and more a wanting to freak a friend out. Butyeah. Short list.
4: MM and WW in both show and comic form, the Booty Chest waitresses, the !!!! girls, Lacy and her "French Cuisine Kills Bunnies" sign, Roxy Wasserman...
The first one was easy --they had copies of Mouse Guard, which, I will admit, I want primarily because Dub-Dub1 reads it. But, I mean, I *have* heard good things about it. Also, damn it's pretty.
The second was harder. Skimming through the selection of teen graphic novels2, my hand landed on something entitled "Rapunzel's Revenge"
Let's get two things straight before we begin this:
- I really really love fractured fairy tales, and retelling of the old stories.
- I have long hair. This means I get called Rapunzel a lot. As such, I don't always like her, but anything bearing her name is worth at least looking at.
That's the one that I just spent an hour or two reading, start to finish. And oh my god, I love this book! I'm no good at book reviews, so I'm just going to put some things into a list:
- Rapunzel(Punzie) is awesome. She has Pippi-Longstocking red hair, and twenty feet of it. She's full of good morals, and insisting on not stealing, and a need to bring justice against the woman who raised her, as said woman is a total witch.
- Oh, and if she wasn't cool enough already, she gets herself out of the tower. No princes involved.
- Her sidekick (and he is definitely HER sidekick, and even he maintains so when other people try to thank him for her good deeds) is called Jack. He has a goose, and keeps muttering about it laying eggs. There may have been some trouble with some giants at some point. He doesn't use guns, even though nearly everyone else they run into does. In January, there is going to be a sequel about him, and I am excited for that!
- There's a bit near the beginning where Punzie and Jack are trying to rescue a little girl from some bandits. Jack suggests that Punzie puts on a dress and uses her feminine wiles. "My what?" "You're gonna do a sultry little dance for them, while I free the girl behind their backs." Rapunzel's response? "In. Your. Dreams." Woo for women who don't need to use their feminine wiles to kick ass!
- Similarly, everything Rapunzel wears is reasonable. When she gets nice clothes, and not random things, they are pretty much just the same outfit any self-respecting cowboy would wear, only slightly tighter and more girl-shaped.
- "Cowboy?" I hear you ask. Yeah. Did I not mention it's a Western? It's a western. If you have hair as long as rope, you can use it to lasso things! And as a whip!!
- I did not even notice this until I started reading reviews (I have no idea if this is a good or bad thing) but there is a pretty decent amount of racial diversity in the book. Punzie's white, but she sure as hell ain't blonde haired and blue eyed, instead falling into the "firey redhead" category of awesome literary characters. Jack is hispanic. As they travel, they meet black people and hispanic people and white people and Native American people and no one much seems bothered by that.
- Also, the art is *beautiful* I read a pretty good review that complained briefly that they found the artwork a little too juvenile, or too much like illustrations for a childrens book. I disagree --I found the art beautiful, and full of expression. There are maybe a half dozen panels that just caught my breath away.
Lemme put it this way --I have another character on my really damn short3 list of characters I find so awesome I want to cosplay them.
Book highly recommended. For pretty much every age after they can start reading. I don't recall any swear words, there's no real sex, some violence, and some scary bits, but nothing graphic. And if you'll excuse me, I think I'm gonna go draw some fanart now.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Dub-Dub. As in, Wendy Watson. As in, the main character of Middleman, and she is awesome, don't you pay attention to these things?
2: Can I just mention that my heart melted into a lovey-dovey pile of goo when I realized this? I may have swooned from delight. I am really really irritated that that one clerk is being an asshat, because Porter Square Books is such a delightful little bookstore!
3: Well, okay, really damn short if you don't count the fact that I want to cosplay everyone ever from the Middleman4. It's pretty much just Hermione Hatchett from "The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage", and...and...um...there has to be someone else...oh! And Tobi from the Broadway revival version of Sweeney Todd. And Gwynn from Sluggy Freelance, and one secret project that's less a wanting to cosplay, and more a wanting to freak a friend out. Butyeah. Short list.
4: MM and WW in both show and comic form, the Booty Chest waitresses, the !!!! girls, Lacy and her "French Cuisine Kills Bunnies" sign, Roxy Wasserman...
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on 2009-12-02 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-12-03 02:38 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2009-12-02 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-12-03 02:38 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2009-12-02 01:14 am (UTC)i can't wait.
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on 2009-12-03 02:39 am (UTC)Also, I want to buy like...eight more copies of it to send to people. Well, okay, at least one for my friend Harena and one for my friend Kittikattie. But I could certainly find more people. Because it's grand!
If your library doesn't have it, I shall look over my glasses at you until that changes.
~Sor
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on 2009-12-03 12:17 pm (UTC)please.
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on 2009-12-02 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-12-03 02:40 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2009-12-02 02:56 am (UTC)Also, when I encountered Mrs. Hatchett in The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage, my first thought was to wonder if you had cosplayed her, or were planning to. Good to know that my assessment was not misplaced. :-)
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on 2009-12-03 02:41 am (UTC)I have been planning to cosplay her for aggggges! Hell, I have *dreamed* I cosplayed her --for a scifi con masquerade, no less! She would be such a rocksome costume to have.
~Sor