Guardian of the Realm

Oct 9, 2024 10:27 PM

Author:Kyle Thomas,John Reppion,Leah Moore,Amrit Birdi

OUT NOW. Join TikTok sensation Kyle Thomas and his much-loved meerkat Mylo as they embark on their most epic adventure yet - to an alternate dimension filled with beautiful creatures some good . . . and some that will threaten our entire existence.

Kyle Thomas and his beloved meerkat Mylo have always been inseparable. But now they're about to be worlds away from life as they know it . . .

Stumbling upon an extraordinary and magical alternate world, they enter a land filled with strange and wonderful wild creatures.

Everything seems perfect here, but danger is lurking.

A dark creature has found its way through an open portal and is wreaking havoc in the real world.

People are frightened for their lives. And now it is down to Kyle and Mylo to save the world.

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Kyle and his incredible team: the No. 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Comic Book Artist, Amrit Birdi and scriptwriting powerhouse Leah Moore and John Reppion, who have written for the likes of 2000 AD, Channel 4, Dark Horse and DC Comics, have come together to create Kyle's first ever graphic novel that will transport you to an incredible animal dimension like no other . . .

Reviews

Fervent, heartfelt and visually wonderful

—— Peter Bradshaw , Guardian

Superb . . . Weaves together excerpts from the diary with the quest of Kitty - the imaginary friend to whom Anne addressed much of it - to locate the young writer in present-day Amsterdam

—— Wendy Ide , Observer

...fanciful tale that extends Anne’s legacy to the contemporary refugee crisis in Europe and is carried off with graceful drawings by Israeli artist Guberman

—— Publishers Weekly

Eschewing the colour of 1999's Heart Of Empire, he [Talbot] returns to the black and white art of the original Adventures of Luther Arkwright, imbuing his linework with a rugged naïveté that harks back to his roots in '70s underground comics

—— SFX

The Legend of Luther Arkwright... is image based storytelling, at its most entertaining, provocative and visually striking.

—— Morning Star

A stunning, beautiful work.

—— Fortean Times

An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival. Beaton is a thoughtful guide through a complex landscape of class and gender, and these pages ache with grief and grace.

—— Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

Kate Beaton's comics are rich with quiet revelations, intimate details, and a deadpan, devastating sense of humor. A generous and illuminating book; I suspect it will stay on my mind for a very long time.

—— Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley

Ducks is an unforgettable, riveting work. Kate Beaton opens the mind's eye, allowing us to inhabit landscapes and experiences crucial to our time, yet largely unseen. Artful, considered and courageous, Ducks is a landmark work.

—— Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Ducks delivers an immersive, harrowing journey through an industry where the lure of fast money belies darker realities of casual brutality, profound loneliness and soul-cracking isolation. The uneasy echoes of Beaton's story ring well past the the final page. Shattering.

—— Jessica Bruder, author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Honest, compassionate, and clear-eyed, Ducks is a stunning achievement in storytelling that I will be thinking about for a long time.

—— Jung Yun, author of O Beautiful

Engrossing.

—— Irish Examiner

Ducks moves into dark territory - including sexual assault - but Beaton... balances light and shade. No place or person is wholly good or bad, not even the oil sands with their dark satanic drills.

—— Telegraph

An astonishing graphic novel/memoir whose precise drawings capture Bechdel's life-long hunt for transcendence through physical exertion.

—— Simon Kuper and Murad Ahmed , Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

The biggest event of the year was the return of Alison Bechdel... Bechdel's previous books have made her one of the superstars of graphic fiction, and this funny, perceptive and merciless account shows that...her talent remains undimmed.

—— James Smart , Guardian, *Books of the Year*

The Secret to Superhuman Strength... demands to be reread immediately... and does the reader far more good than a Peloton class and a cup of turmeric tea.

—— Rachel Cooke , Observer, *Books of the Year*

A joyful book, a feast of colour, wit and ideas about living in ever-changing times

—— Max Liu , iNews, *Books of the Year*

The brilliant cartoonist traces her own history of (sometimes obsessive) exercise in this stunning graphic memoir.

—— Bill Hayes , Reader's Digest

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