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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire DOUBLE-SIZED DEBUT ISSUE! NEW ONGOING SERIES written and illustrated by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, A.D., Sweet Tooth). ROYAL CITY charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County and is his most ambitious, and most personal, project to date. Date Available: 03/22/2017
BONUS REVIEW by Shawn
 Apparently, Image can put out a new series in which neither giant swords nor ray-guns are being wielded. Lying beneath the pretentious looking cover is a distinctly engaging story that seems to avoid any sort of navel-gazing whatsoever. Taking place in the real world, though peppered throughout by mildly fantastic elements, this book will appeal to even those high-falutin' Fantagraphics fans. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire DOUBLE-SIZED DEBUT ISSUE! NEW ONGOING SERIES written and illustrated by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, A.D., Sweet Tooth). ROYAL CITY charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County and is his most ambitious, and most personal, project to date. Date Available: 03/22/2017
BONUS REVIEW by Shawn
Apparently, Image can put out a new series in which neither giant swords nor ray-guns are being wielded. Lying beneath the pretentious looking cover is a distinctly engaging story that seems to avoid any sort of navel-gazing whatsoever. Taking place in the real world, though peppered throughout by mildly fantastic elements, this book will appeal to even those high-falutin' Fantagraphics fans. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams Customers who bought this, also bought:
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