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Rice Boy is what happens when Star Wars, The Hobbit and Dr. Suess have a baby.
It's a wonderful and weird adventure saga. It's strange, and unlike anything I've really read before, and yet, incredibly familiar. Rice Boy is a strange protagonist -- he has no arms, no legs, looks like a grain of rice and says "Oh" more times than I can count, but he's lovely. How Dahm draws him with such emotion I'm never sure I'll know.
The comic itself is incredibly well-polished. I love the colour palettes and how well harmonised they are. There are some beautiful full-page panels that are just so beautiful to look at. I loved how simple Dahm's drawings were, and yet they had so much detail. This feels like a book I could read again and again.
If you like Saga, if you like Star Wars, if you like unlikely heroes doing wonderful things, this might be the book for you.
I know I'll read it again soon.
It's a wonderful and weird adventure saga. It's strange, and unlike anything I've really read before, and yet, incredibly familiar. Rice Boy is a strange protagonist -- he has no arms, no legs, looks like a grain of rice and says "Oh" more times than I can count, but he's lovely. How Dahm draws him with such emotion I'm never sure I'll know.
The comic itself is incredibly well-polished. I love the colour palettes and how well harmonised they are. There are some beautiful full-page panels that are just so beautiful to look at. I loved how simple Dahm's drawings were, and yet they had so much detail. This feels like a book I could read again and again.
If you like Saga, if you like Star Wars, if you like unlikely heroes doing wonderful things, this might be the book for you.
I know I'll read it again soon.
If you haven't heard of this book, go read the webcomic NOW. Evan Dahm has created such an ethereal, melancholy world. Plus, quests for meaning, fate, and the best assortment of amazing and terrifying creatures you'll find anywhere. If Dahm and Guillermo Del Toro teamed up, magical horrible things would happen.
So here we follow the story of Rice Boy, a simple creature who collects fruit and has a friend named Rosemary, until a tall robot named T.O.E. (that's The One Electronic) comes along and changes his little existence. Rice Boy is told that he's the new fulfiller, the one who will make the centuries old prophecy true - only all the past fulfillers have turned out to be fakes, so it's hard for Rice Boy to take T.O.E. seriously, and T.O.E. himself has been having doubts about his divine mission. Of course, Rice Boy decides to at least go on a journey, and we get to follow him as the prophecy unfolds (or not).
So here we follow the story of Rice Boy, a simple creature who collects fruit and has a friend named Rosemary, until a tall robot named T.O.E. (that's The One Electronic) comes along and changes his little existence. Rice Boy is told that he's the new fulfiller, the one who will make the centuries old prophecy true - only all the past fulfillers have turned out to be fakes, so it's hard for Rice Boy to take T.O.E. seriously, and T.O.E. himself has been having doubts about his divine mission. Of course, Rice Boy decides to at least go on a journey, and we get to follow him as the prophecy unfolds (or not).
This was really good!! Short, but beautiful and a nice time. There were a couple of things I would have liked more answers to, but it was very good and I enjoyed it a lot.