Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound.
Flight Volume Seven Edited by Kazu Kibuishi
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Flight 7 is the latest volume in the acclaimed graphic novel series, a full-color graphic anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the fields of comics and animation including JP Ahonen, Jason Caffoe, Michel Gagne, Justin Gerard, Paul Harmon, Kazu Kibuishi, Stuart Livingston. Katie Shanahan, Kean Soo, and many others.
The previous volume made my Nexus Graphica Top Ten of 2009. Here’s what I had to say about Volume Six:
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| Much like the previous six books (Volumes 1-5 plus Flight Explorer) of this extraordinary anthology series, the 15 stories in Flight Volume Six offer creators from around world employing a variety of genres: fantasy, science fiction, westerns, and slice-of-life ranging from serious to whimsical. Every beautiful story in this impressive book delights, but several stand out. Michel Gagné’s charming story "The Saga of Rex: Soulmates" tells the silent tale of two cat-like creatures and their interplanetary love. In "The Excitingly Mundane Life of Kenneth Shuri," J.P. Ahonen chronicles the challenges that confront an unemployed ninja. A seemingly incompetent Viking stars in Graham Annable’s funny "Magnus the Misfit." Cory Godbey follows a man’s dreams in the moving "Walters." Justin Ridge’s "Dead Bunny" follows an undead rabbit looking for companionship. Rather than experiencing series fatigue, Flight Volume Six ranks among the finest volumes of this unique anthology. |
Preview of Flight Volume Seven
Fringe: Tales From the Fringe #1 Written by Justin Doble & Adam Gaines and Alex Katsnelson Art by Federico Dallocchio and Shawn Moll
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Introducing an all-new 6-issue miniseries featuring tales set in the world of the hit TV series! In the first story, Peter Bishop is forced to choose between doing the right thing – saving a troubled young man pressed into service as a suicide bomber – or scoring a dream job. In the second story, a high school girl finds herself inexplicably transformed into an adult. Even more shocking, she also discovers she’s an assassin!
Penny Arcade 6: The Halls Below by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
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FROM UNTOLD STYGIAN DEPTHS, IT RISES
Gaze, if you dare, in benumbed awe upon its unfathomably cyclopean dimensions of obsidian impossibility. Cower before its undulating, multitendriled tales of unutterable horror. Receive into trembling hands that which the nameless ancients foretold in dread whispers that echo still across the black and terrible chasm whence forgotten time disgorges its haunted secrets, etc. Behold—the sixth tome of the Penny Arcade cycle!
Peer within and find
• 2005’s full-color Penny Arcade strips in their behemoth entirety!
• The soul-chilling ramblings of its warped, only partially human creators!
• And more, which no coherent mind could fathom nor human tongue repeat!
More in Part II