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Loading... Skyward Volume 1: My Low-G Lifeby Joe Henderson, Lee Garbett (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A phenomenally unique graphic novel! The whole concept of living in a zero-g world makes such an exciting premise for a story, and Willa is the ideal main character to take the lead: she’s funny, brave, and curious, and she makes me very eager to see where the series goes from here. (Also that ending had me ( ) A high-concept book -- gravity stops working!! -- that doesn't fully explore the implications of its premise, content to reduce the story to a bad rich man trying to maintain the new dystopian status quo in order to protect his profits. So of course he must destroy the only man who could fix gravity, the widower father of our spirited protagonist, a young woman who has grown up without gravity and yearns to leave Chicago and explore the wide world, despite how dangerous that might be. (Has Disney optioned this?) This is dumb sci-fi. The world looks pretty normal except for all the floating people trying not to fall to their deaths into the sky. There are still schools and nightclubs, for instance. But I'm pretty sure that with little to no gravity, just to nitpick, there would be no air for the characters to breathe in their classrooms or water to splash into their alcoholic beverages. But no, the air is fine, and as for water it just floats around the sky in big blobs of course because only solid things like people and cars can make it to orbit. I probably should stop here, but I have the next volume on hand, so I'm going to read it anyway and see if things improve. Really interesting premise, and I like the characters. There's even a fat character, and at least in this volume no jokes or gross comments about her weight. I'm definitely going to read more. Note for school visits: there's a classroom scene where they talk about safe sex in terms of gravity and a line about the possibility of getting pregnant from airborn sperm. But it's not on page explicit anything, so probably still ok? I haven't decided if I'll bring it to our 8th graders yet. Also, the creative ways characters develop to deal with their weightlessness reminded me of the video game Mirror's Edge. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesSkyward [2018] (1-5 collected) Contains
One day, gravity on Earth suddenly became a fraction of what it is now. Twenty years later, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. And to Willa Fowler, who was born just after G-day, it's pretty awesome. You can fly through the air! I mean, sure, you can also die if you jump too high. So you just don't jump too high. And maybe don't get mixed up in your dad's secret plan to bring gravity back that could get you killed… From writer JOE HENDERSON (showrunner of Fox's Lucifer) and artist LEE GARBETT (Lucifer, Loki: Agent of Asgard) comes the story of a young woman's journey to find her place in a world turned upside down. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)741.5973Arts & recreation Design & related arts Drawing and drawings Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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