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So I mean, I'll always love this series something fierce but the reason I got in on comics is the Gillen/McKelvie combo so as much as I love them for giving people opportunities I just want them back. Please? Please?
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"What puts us in a bad mood when just a minute before we felt so good? What makes us afraid of the dark when we know perfectly well there's nothing out there? What explains that sometimes we think of a person and two seconds later the phone rings, and it's the same person calling us? Not all such forces have to do with hats and rabbits. There are forces bigger than all of us. Good, and bad."
This book is the perfect example of a book that pops up when you least expect it. I was helping a friend move, and found this book with half the cover torn off on top of one of the boxes and was immediately intrigued just by the cover. I grabbed it, read the back of the book and immediately announced, "Cynthia, I'm borrowing this!" And I'm glad I did.
Many of these reviews will have you believing that this book is terrible, horrible, and not realistic, but I find that we often hold Middle-Grade books to a standard that..they shouldn't be held. We have to remember the audience it's created for. It needs to kind of speed along, keep the kids interested, be long enough, but not TOO long, and have an interesting subject matter. I really actually enjoyed this book, and as I texted my closest friend, never have I actually felt ANXIOUS when reading about Splash Mountain until this book
My disclaimer is that I am way more familiar with Disney Land than WDW, so maybe that's where I go wrong, but it was pretty cool when things were being described to be able to picture them pretty perfectly in my mind. I found it really interesting and true that these "virtual tour guides" and their look-alikes really couldn't be in the park at the same time. Disney really does pride itself on the experience of its guests, it's why adults can't come into the park dressed as characters, and to me, this was a very true to Disney touch. One of the other reasons I was actually really happy with this book was the fact that Disney-Hyperion was able to publish. People on here will probably disagree with me, but Disney isn't going to publish something that is going to present the characters that people love at a quality that Disney doesn't approve of. Especially because this involves their parks. Disney has been through this with a fine-toothed comb, and I actually really loved it.
I read this in a matter of a few hours, I've been delving more into middle readers books lately, and I found that I really enjoyed this one. Sure the characters were lacking a little but I would absolutely say that this book is way more plot driven than character driven, that while the characters are important, getting lost in WDW and being there with them felt more important, and more enjoyable.
"What puts us in a bad mood when just a minute before we felt so good? What makes us afraid of the dark when we know perfectly well there's nothing out there? What explains that sometimes we think of a person and two seconds later the phone rings, and it's the same person calling us? Not all such forces have to do with hats and rabbits. There are forces bigger than all of us. Good, and bad."
This book is the perfect example of a book that pops up when you least expect it. I was helping a friend move, and found this book with half the cover torn off on top of one of the boxes and was immediately intrigued just by the cover. I grabbed it, read the back of the book and immediately announced, "Cynthia, I'm borrowing this!" And I'm glad I did.
Many of these reviews will have you believing that this book is terrible, horrible, and not realistic, but I find that we often hold Middle-Grade books to a standard that..they shouldn't be held. We have to remember the audience it's created for. It needs to kind of speed along, keep the kids interested, be long enough, but not TOO long, and have an interesting subject matter. I really actually enjoyed this book, and as I texted my closest friend, never have I actually felt ANXIOUS when reading about Splash Mountain until this book
My disclaimer is that I am way more familiar with Disney Land than WDW, so maybe that's where I go wrong, but it was pretty cool when things were being described to be able to picture them pretty perfectly in my mind. I found it really interesting and true that these "virtual tour guides" and their look-alikes really couldn't be in the park at the same time. Disney really does pride itself on the experience of its guests, it's why adults can't come into the park dressed as characters, and to me, this was a very true to Disney touch. One of the other reasons I was actually really happy with this book was the fact that Disney-Hyperion was able to publish. People on here will probably disagree with me, but Disney isn't going to publish something that is going to present the characters that people love at a quality that Disney doesn't approve of. Especially because this involves their parks. Disney has been through this with a fine-toothed comb, and I actually really loved it.
I read this in a matter of a few hours, I've been delving more into middle readers books lately, and I found that I really enjoyed this one. Sure the characters were lacking a little but I would absolutely say that this book is way more plot driven than character driven, that while the characters are important, getting lost in WDW and being there with them felt more important, and more enjoyable.
When this was first recommended to me on Amazon I kind of did a double take. I wasn't sure why they'd think that this was a comic I'd enjoy, but I was intrigued. Then I went to my favorite local bookstore and they had the first volume and I had to indulge myself.
I'm so glad I did, it was so beyond what I'd ever expected. It's an interesting concept, the fact that these two people freeze time when they orgasm. What a super power. I really enjoyed the art, which was gorgeous, as well as the story and the humorous little quips that Fraction includes in there. There were actually multiple times in which I took pictures and sent them to friends because I found it that funny.
This comic is obviously mature, and for mature readers, but if you can handle sex jokes and explicit content, but it was worth it. And the surprise addition of an enforcement force for people who have this ability was equally hilarious.
I'm so glad I did, it was so beyond what I'd ever expected. It's an interesting concept, the fact that these two people freeze time when they orgasm. What a super power. I really enjoyed the art, which was gorgeous, as well as the story and the humorous little quips that Fraction includes in there. There were actually multiple times in which I took pictures and sent them to friends because I found it that funny.
This comic is obviously mature, and for mature readers, but if you can handle sex jokes and explicit content, but it was worth it. And the surprise addition of an enforcement force for people who have this ability was equally hilarious.
"Things learned so far: Mastering bigness is easy. It's mastering smallness that takes work."
Kamala Khan is fucking awesome. She's real, and that's super important to me. Kamala is struggling, she's a Muslim American, and she has to balance the expectation of her parents who want her to fit their cultural standards, as well as wanting to fit in at school. She also wishes that she could be Carol Danvers.
It's really beautiful how Wilson weaves the story of this girl who wished for super powers, got them, and now has no idea what to do with them. The teenage awkwardness that Wilson writes is beautiful, and maybe that's an oxymoron, but it's so relateable that it's elegant in a way. Khan's super power is she can grow and shrink, and she is so awkward in learning it that it reminds me of teenage years perfectly. Sometimes an arm is too long and she doesn't know how to make it go back, other times she has to learn to be small.
Kamala doesn't face really any big bad superheroes in this book, and that's the beauty of it. She just has nasty teenage girls who are islamaphobic, and only like her when they think she's super, and that enemy is probably worse than something that some super villain can do. The art is beautiful, the story is amazing, and I can't wait to get my hands on the next volume.
Kamala Khan is fucking awesome. She's real, and that's super important to me. Kamala is struggling, she's a Muslim American, and she has to balance the expectation of her parents who want her to fit their cultural standards, as well as wanting to fit in at school. She also wishes that she could be Carol Danvers.
It's really beautiful how Wilson weaves the story of this girl who wished for super powers, got them, and now has no idea what to do with them. The teenage awkwardness that Wilson writes is beautiful, and maybe that's an oxymoron, but it's so relateable that it's elegant in a way. Khan's super power is she can grow and shrink, and she is so awkward in learning it that it reminds me of teenage years perfectly. Sometimes an arm is too long and she doesn't know how to make it go back, other times she has to learn to be small.
Kamala doesn't face really any big bad superheroes in this book, and that's the beauty of it. She just has nasty teenage girls who are islamaphobic, and only like her when they think she's super, and that enemy is probably worse than something that some super villain can do. The art is beautiful, the story is amazing, and I can't wait to get my hands on the next volume.
