Jul 28, 2022
The artwork hidden under the dust jackets for my graphic novels Incredible Doom Vol. 1 and the upcoming Incredible Doom Vol. 2. Also available as prints.
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The artwork hidden under the dust jackets for my graphic novels Incredible Doom Vol. 1 and the upcoming Incredible Doom Vol. 2. Also available as prints.
Next up, Incredible Doom by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden.
Drawing a page from Incredible Doom.
Unlikely alliances, first love, and minor crime sprees abound in this teen graphic novel debut about making connections while your world is falling apart.
One of the best BOOKS of 2022?
WHAT?
Not one of the best graphic novels, or one of the best teen graphic novels, or one of the best books set in the 90s that involve carding, slash fiction, and BBS released in 2022...
But one of the best BOOKS of 2022?
THERE WERE SO MANY BOOKS MADE IN 2022!
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Here are the can’t-miss books to buy, gift, and read before the year is out.
Here's our BOOK, I guess.
30 Days of Pride Books (with @draconiclore)
Day 13: Incredible Doom by Matthew Bogart & Jesse Holden
A graphic novel series set in the early years of the internet, when new technology connects young people in desperate situations.
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183. Incredible Doom, by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
Owned: No, library Page count: 285 My summary: It's the dawn of a new age. The internet is on the rise, and four teenagers find themselves thrown together where before, they would never have met. Allison is a magician's daughter, longing to break out of his controlling grip. Samir is a sympathetic kid who wants to run away with her. Richard is alone in a new place, abandoned by his peers. Tina is a young punk who decides to protect him, and shake up his understanding of the world around him. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:
This was another random pull from work - in this case, I was covering in another library and wanted to see what their graphic novel selection was like. Pretty poor, as it happened, but this little volume intrigued me. Set in the very early days of personal computers, it follows some teenagers who find each other and help each other out of their horrible home life situations, forming a chosen family as they do. This is an era before my time (I first started being Chronically Online in the early YouTube days) and yet something about it felt so, so familiar. I don't know, I remember being a chronically lonely kid who nevertheless found people online who shared my interests and were people that I could talk to, even if people in real life were strange to me. I've never been through the kind of things that these kids have been through, but these stories struck at something real, something knowable. And I think that's why I liked them so much.
Our story follows two pairs of teenagers - Allison, under the thumb of her stern and abusive magician father, who finds friendship with Samir, a kid who wants to help her, and Richard, a boy who is shunned by his peers for being different, and Tina, a young punk who ends up as his self-appointed protector. All of these kids are very plausible, and you can't help but feel for them; lonely teenagers out of place with the rest of the world, out of step, who find each other and gain the solace and companionship that they've been looking for. All of them have their flaws, abrasiveness or shyness or just being a little too strange for the world they find themselves in. I was almost bracing myself for a stranger-danger moral so common to stories of the internet, but no. Everybody the kids meet online are exactly who they claim to be. Which was nice - granted, this is a very old version of the internet, barely recognisable to me. But still. It's a very satisfying, very sweet set of stories, with messed-up kids just looking to find themselves and find their way in the world, and I very much appreciated it for that.
Next up, something doubleplusungood - an adaption of 1984.
I like the kinda' torn paper look of the trees in the background. It reminds me of that feeling when things are so dark that you can't make them out.
It's from "Incredible Doom: Vol. 2," available, signed with an original sketch by me at BuyOlympia.