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I really enjoyed this book. It was a fun adventure for children. Both girls and boys will love this, due to powerful characters of both genders that children can relate to and look up to. The book is beautifully illustrated, in a quite simple but detailed art style, colourful, and reminiscent of cartoons. I loved also the LGBTQ+ relationship presented in a very normal way. The couple was cute and loving, yet totally badass at the same time and I live for this kind of representation of women. Alt...
Comic book type layout. Illustrations were decent enough. The title gave me no indication of what I was about to read so I was really excited.The kid is looking for food as he is hungry. He walks around and sees all the people eating, browsing and buying things he can't get. A young kid drops strawberries on the ground so the kid picks them up and runs off. The police soon chase him. He will not drop his book. He decides that was too close a call and goes to check the garage bins. Here he sees s...
The Sunken Tower by Tait Howard, 134 pages, GRAPHIC NOVEL, Oni Press, 2020, $18. 9781620106877Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content PG; Violence: GBUYING ADVISORY: MS – OPTIONALAUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGEDig is a hungry young orphan trying to score some food at the local medieval market when he gets captured by a couple of Blood Cultists who want to offer him up to an underground monster so their leader can have all cosmic power (and possibly offer a better health plan to his followers). Dig disco...
Sunken Tower is an absolute delight from start to finish! The main trio of heroes - Dig, Iana, and Crina - play so well off of each other and each character brings a unique perspective to this fantasy adventure. The story is both genuinely fun and exciting in equal measure, and Tait’s writing delivers the narrative in a fun and engaging way. It’ll be an instant hit for anyone with a fondness for D&D style fantasy action.Tait’s art is absolutely GORGEOUS. The illustration is stylish and fun while...
** I received this through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. **If you are looking for a cute, diverse and kind of weird graphic novel, look no further. This is a story about Dig, who gets kidnapped by and evil cult, and taken to a sunken tower, undergrund, in a Cave. The evil Cult, wants to use him for an evil blood magic ritual. He meets two girls, Iana and Crina (who are very much in love) , who are also being held captived by the cult. When they finally escapes they are let out on a...
Digby is a street urchin, just trying to survive with only his wits while hiding the little plant magic he learned from the book his mother gave him. One day while scavenging, he gets captures by a strange creature in a red hood, and taken deep underground where he finds himself in a cage next to two women, Crina and Iana. The strange creature happens to be part of a blood cult, and they need these three topsiders to sacrifice to a horrible monster to unleash untold amounts of magic unless th...
'The Sunken Tower' with story and art by Tait Howard is about a group of adventurers trying to make an escape.Dig is on his way to the the market when his bag breaks. To make things worse, he is captured by Blood Cultists and taken into a cave. His cellmates Iana and Crina have a plan and with Dig's magic power, they decided to make their escape. This was a fun quick read. I liked the odd characters and the bright colorful art. I'm sure there could be more adventures with these characters, and I...
I received this Arc from NetGalley and I want to thank you VERY much and say how much I loved this comic, starting with the representativeness printed on the tough character that embraces everyone like a mother. The universe is another very detailed thing, the beings that inhabit it are very different and each one acts in a way as if it had a story behind that everyone wanted to hide. It is a very funny comic and with good doses of adventure and brotherhood.Recebi essa Arc do NetGalley e quero a...
I received this graphic novel from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.I just cannot get the words out for this book, so I will just write a short review instead. IT was fun! Tons of fun! About a boy who can do magic, two girls who are friends (though much more given some scenes, eep) and them getting stuck in a blood cult and having to run or else they get sacrificed. I loved the characters and wanted to learn all I could about them. I enjoyed each page, though at times it felt a bit as i...
*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I think the best word for this graphic novel is fun, because it is exactly that. We follow Digby (or Dig), whose past we don't know much about, as he tries to survive and unfortunately gets captured to be part of a sacrifice. What follows is a hilarious adventure while he and his new found friends do their best to escape. This is a misadventure with a number of twists and turns and an astounding sense of humor.
The Sunken Tower is original, funny and will attract a wide range of readers. I do not read graphic novels often but this one I was able to get through in one sitting - the story and characters kept me engaged and looking forward to the next page. Very enjoyable - 4 starsThank you to NetGalley and Oni Press for the ARC.Set deep underground in a sunken city, a young wizard and his two companions embark on a journey to escape the clutches of an evil cult. Dig is having a very bad day. His bag is b...
Cool ideas, liked the death cult critters, but the main characters bored me to tears.
The Sunken Tower is a seriously funny fantasy adventure with plenty of punching and sword swinging thrown in. It seemed like a short story that is part of a bigger fantasy world so I’d like to see more of Dig, Iana and Crina on further adventures.Dig’s day starts off pretty bad. His bag is broken, he’s super hungry and the local law enforcement is after him. Then his day gets a whole lot worse when he’s kidnapped and thrown in a dungeon far underground. It’s in this dungeon that he meets Iana an...
I liked this book!
Full color illustrations seem to be the key to engage most of the students in my K-4 school so this one intrigued me. The illustrations right away on page 3 make me feel like I was in a “Where’s Waldo?” or similar hide and find book. I’m not used to seeing smoking in kid’s books much any more so noticed the pipe smoking police/guard on page 8. Page 13 has an awkward illustration of the kid’s head in the stomach area of someone and then he’s getting tied up. I probably would not add this for my 4...
It's serious fantasy that's seriously funny- definitely in the vein of Adventure Time, but also not anything like Adventure Time. A waif of a boy gets captured by a blood cult and meets a couple adventurers and they help each other escape. Don't worry, "blood cult" is more tongue-in-cheek than anything else. It does feel like it gets close to the line a bit here and there vis a vis the plot & humor, but I feel like I can still recommend it to upper elementary-aged kids. It's definitely appropria...
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free e-arc for review. This was a fun, quick read. I don't normally read a lot of graphic novels, but this one caught my eye! The main character, Digby (or just Dig) meets his new friends after being kidnapped looking for some breakfast. What follows is a fun adventure chronicling their escape and the interesting, decidedly unintelligent creatures that captured them. Bonus: great representation without being overt; the author didn't make a big deal
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Not my favorite graphic novel. Story was ok. Illustrations were decent. I can see where some middle grade and younger readers will enjoy this, but it was hard for me to finish it. Just meh.
When young Dig is kidnapped by a group of blood cultists, things look very grim. Dig, along with his cellmates Iana and Crina are about to be sacrificed to an ancient subterranean evil. But thanks to some magical abilities, Dig is able to help his colleagues escape. The flight from the cult won’t be easy as the captives find themselves in the middle of a sunken city. With the rabid followers on their heels, Dig and company’s only hope of escape is to find their way to daylight. That means a leng...