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Graphic Novel Review- The Unwritten: On to Genesis by Peter Gross, Mike Carey and Vince Locke Quote: The source is people. Specifically, people who read a story and get something out of it. Maybe give something back, too. Somehow Wilson was able to turn that emotion into power, and draw on it. The cover art by Yuko Shimizu always sets the standard so high for the story inside that my heart dies a little when I find the pages to be filled with regular page layouts and panels. Tom Taylor finally frees himself from the tale of Moby Dick, now with Lizzie Hexam and Richie Savoy are about to steal Wilson Taylor's journals from an auction. The journals contain the truth about the power of storytelling made flesh and blood. Unwritten is a story that is too grand and at times too intelligent for its own good. The tendency to touch upon every other literary reference and pay tribute to stories makes it a scattered read. I loved the little trip to the Golden Age of ...

Comicbook Review: 2 in 1, a) Dark Destiny and b) Fish Tale by Harsho Mohon Chattoraj Quote: They let us go, and we ran as fast as possible. Some distance away, Muhammad turned back to his home. But I ran on. And it feels like I've been running on forever... I so wish my family and friends were here with me . This slim self-published comic comes with two stories, one of tragedy this nation can't forget, another a story of food culture. Dark Destiny is a micro-history of a refugee boy, trying to survive the India-Pakistan partition. Among dying people and dead bodies, our boy is remembering how his fortunes turned and he ended up on the other side. A story of hunger, deprivation, desperation and pathos; many of us have heard from our grandparents and our parents, the horrors of partition still live and haunts the Bengali Community. So the gestures of bravery showed by few to help others then, gets its due respect in this story. Fish Tales definitel...

Book Review: The Graveyard Book Volume II by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell Quote: The midsummer sky was already beginning to lighten in the east, and that was the way Bod began to walk.  But between now and then there was life and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open. The story begins from where we left book one, an eleven-year-old Nobody Owens looking for new friends and understanding how he came to the graveyard. The last three chapters are beautifully illustrated by David Lafuente, Scott Hampton, and P. Craig Russell, Kevin Nowlan and Glen Showman. I loved David's art the most, it was detailed with solid colours. Maureen Quilling's character design was exactly done the way I imagined while reading the novel. I love how Silas was fleshed out in the darkness, he looks as cold as his words are. He is so dedicated to the boy that he makes sure Bod gets some access to the ways of living, like sending Bod to a football game. ...

Book Review: Jasmine Days by Benyamin Quote: That's why I told you the story of the Imam. Poor Ali, he is an idiot who ran to the river to see the monster of his own fiction. If we don't see where a person is coming from, then all our education and experience is useless. In a Middle Eastern country, amidst the desert stands the City, full of immigrants from South Asia. In it lives rebellious Sameera Parvin, a Pakistani immigrant who works as a radio jockey. She is a crowd favourite, loves playing the guitar with friends and is content in the city that provides her identity and burgers. Her happy days began to crumble when her friend Ali an enraged Shia Muslim begins to tell her tales of atrocities the King and the nation has done against Shias. As the story unfolds we learn of inner politics of a nation, and a joint family: the Taya Ghar which is Sameera's place of grounding as well as emancipation. Sippie aunty and Aisha aunty present the di...

Webcomic Review: Fools by Yeongha and Bagdam Quote: If this were a relationship between a male and a female, wouldn't it be safe to assume that we were 100% attracted to each other? But because I'm a male and just an underclassman, Eungi Hyung would never consider anything like that, would he? Fools is a Korean Webtoon written by Yeongha and adorably illustrated by Bagdam. A weepy and heartbroken teen Choi Jeongwoo meets Kwon Enugi one night, where the latter ends up comforting and advising the teen.  A few years later, Jeongwoo is a freshman in the university where Enugi has returned for his final year after completing his military service. Enugi comes off as a standoffish young man while Jeongwoo the pretty boy is always smiling and super friendly.  After hearing Jeongwoo cry on his phone to his boyfriend during the welcoming party, Enugi can't stop but worry about him from then on. By the twist of fate they end up having breakfast tog...

Book Review: The Beauty of the Moment by Tanaz Bhathena Quote: Alisha scoff's at  insta -love, calls it an unhealthy trope that doesn't happen in real life. "I mean it's  literally   not possible for anyone to fall in love when they're so young," she told me once. I square my shoulders and head for the other end of the cafeteria, where Heather and Preeti are seated. Susan Thomas has every good quality of that quintessential NRI cousin we grow up hearing about. She is super intelligent, obedient, well mannered and knows her mother tongue and never ever aspires for herself. Also happens to be the new girl for her final year in a Canadian high school after studying in an all-girls school in Saudi Arabia. Her once set life starts to change in this new environment, and one particular boy named Malcolm catches her fancy. Malcolm Vakil, the Canadian born Zorastrian, the borderline depressive-lost-soul-nightmare boy. He smokes...