Graveyard Quest de K C Green

Graveyard Quest

K C Green

Allison Shabet

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2016 – vârsta de la 13 până la 16 ani

Running the family business in the shadow of your father can be a drag,especially when you're a gravedigger and that shadow is actually your dad'soverly critical ghost. From creator KC Green's hugely popular webcomic Gunshow,Graveyard Quest follows a blue-collar skeleton and his mole buddy on theirjourney to Hell and back to retrieve his most prized possession. It's a storyabout the things we do for love, and the many mistakes we make along theway.

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY --Originally published as part of Green's Gunshowwebcomic, this story follows a tormented gravedigger's journey toward letting goof the past and finding reasons to keep living-and digging. Green's ghoulishgravedigger has the sickly pallor, hollow eyes, and nasal cavity of a skeleton,and he's being haunted by the ghost of his father, who offers helpful advicelike, "Graves could hold more bones if you dug less like an asshole." Thegravedigger's anger toward his father only intensifies when the ghost makes offwith his late wife's bones, which the gravedigger had been keeping in his house.What follows is a strange, painful subterranean trip to hell and back involvinggelatinous bandits, a mole companion with sage advice, a town of worms, and theexorcising of literal and figurative demons. Green injects plenty of dark humorand cartoon violence into the story (corpses pile up in the gravedigger'sabsence, along with pleading notes from the police), but simmering emotionalanguish is never far from the surface. Green seems keenly aware of theunresolved resentments that many teenagers (and adults) have toward theirparents.

BOOKLIST -- Aforlorn, grave-digging skeleton stars in this macabre adventure, originallypublished in Green's webcomic, Gunshow. Life in the graveyard isn't greatfor the gravedigger: it's lonely, for one thing, and his father's angry ghost isstill hanging around to criticize his work and his habit of talking to hismother's bones, which he keeps in a living-room cabinet. When he wakes to findthe bones missing one day, he is certain his father is to blame, so thegravedigger embarks on a journey to hell (with the help of a charming mole) tofind them. While this all might sound grim and gory, Green keeps it light withsilly jokes, cartoonish figures, and some great slapstick comedy, particularlywhen the gravedigger inadvertently mucks up just about every situation he stepsin. For all its comedy, however, the gravedigger's quest, which is ultimatelyabout reconciliation, is a heartening one. While the madcap antics, mildviolence, and grim laughs mark this for older teens, some of the more matureemotional turns might give it some adult appeal aswell.

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