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Cargando... Royal City Volume 1: Next of Kin (2017)por Jeff Lemire
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It's no secret that I love Jeff Lemire's work. This one is he first in a planned three volume series. This story of the Pike family and the declining industrial town where they live is very much the kind of thing I expect from Lemire. All of the characters are damaged and in many ways unlikeable but Lemire manages to make you care about them and not only what will happen but at the same time what did happen. The youngest Pike child, Tommy died in 1993 but the details aren't revealed in this first volume. Each family member interacts with a different Tommy. Either the one they knew best or the one they hoped he would have been had he lived. The artwork is wonderful and the soft tones of the colors give the story a dreamlike feel. This one is about family, loss, guilt, relationships, going home again, and facing things you'd rather not face. Thanks to Lemire's genius it manages to be a beautifully told story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In his most ambitious and most personal project to date, JEFF LEMIRE spins the captivating and engaging story of a family from the small factory town of Royal City and the ghosts that haunt them. In a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County, ROYAL CITY follows Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up. Patrick is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his browbeaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. As each member of the family struggles to keep themselves above water, it quickly becomes clear that Tommy's death isn't the only dark secret tearing the town, and this family, apart at the seams. Can each member of the Pike family come to terms with their own guilt over Tommy's death, and make peace with the many versions of Tommy that still haunt them, or will they all be dragged down below the river along with his lingering ghost? ROYAL CITY promises to be a sprawling serialized graphic novel that will chart the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town, across three decades. JEFF LEMIRE is the creator of DESCENDER (with DUSTIN NGUYEN), A.D.: AFTER DEATH (with SCOTT SNYDER), Roughneck, Secret Path (with GORD DOWNIE), PLUTONA (with EMI LENNOX), Essex County, Sweet Tooth, Trillium, and The Underwater Welder. He had also written celebrated stories featuring Green Arrow, Animal Man, Bloodshot, Wolverine, Hawkeye, Teen Titans, the Valiant, the X-Men, and Inhumans for the major comic book publishers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This was beautifully illustrated with incredible, dreamlike panels of color. And I also felt moved by each character’s hopes and dreams for building a bright future in a working-class town, but the family members are also unnecessarily cruel towards each other. I found it difficult to connect and sympathize with characters I knew very little about and who were in the middle of bitter turmoil. The first volume is deeply melancholy with no reprieve, so I’m not exactly motivated to pick up the next volume in the series. ( )