The violence is cartoonish, but so are the characters and the situations they find themselves in. Gloriously bizarre, unhinged, a four on the floor joy to read if you can find Q Hayashida ’s Dai Dark, to grip is a must.

Q Hayashida (writer, artist), Daniel Komen (translator), Casey Lucas (adaptation), Phil Christie (letterer) Seven Seas Entertainment Copra #42 will be released from Michel Fiffe’s shop soon, and the newly released Copra Round Six has everything for new and returning readers need to get caught up on the story before #42 comes out. And what a year it was for Copra ! The Ochizon Saga, long built up, finally arrived and was completed. After a brief stint at Image Comics, Fiffe returned to self-publishing single issues of this perennial The Beat Best of Any and Every Year series. Their route there is like the first book, the cornfield (FF), this time, though represented by the tkaronto.2021 was a big year for Michel Fiffe’s Copra. This time their destination is a literal utopia or no-place (FF), being a nonexistent island. This time, though, they are with their parents, collectively making them a family of travelers (33). In the previous books, the children working separately from the adults, were marginalized travelers. Like the previous two books, this adventure can be mapped onto the Road Narrative Spectrum. The conceit up to this point has been that only the children who avoided being turned into scarecrows remembered the events of those days on the farm. The bully from the first book works on the boat that takes them to the island. One interesting change to the series is the addition of a fourth member to the children. Imagine something like freshwater eel and a boa constrictor. Katherine Arden reimagines Champ to be a terrifying, ever present, snake creature. So it's no surprise when things go horribly wrong and they end up stranded on an island that shouldn't exist and is invisible to everyone else on the lake.

Now their parents want to take them a cruise to search for Champ, the monster of Lake Champlain.īefore the cruise the children have already received a warning - a promise - from the Smiling Man. Coco, Ollie, and Brian are still recovering from their previous two encounters with the Smiling Man. Samantha Spinner and the Spectacular Specs by Russell GinnsĪ Spell for Trouble by Esme Addison and Emily Durante (Narrator)ĭark Waters by Katherine Arden is the third book in the Small Spaces series. Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger and Sara Kipin (Illustrations) March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Illustrator)ġ, 2, 3 Salish Sea: a Pacific Northwest Counting Book by Nikki McClure Lucy in the Sky by Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki (Illustrations) The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library by Alice Kimberly A Deadly Deletion by Lorna Barrett and Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)