Then Bod can't go to school any more because it is too dangerous, and he so loved just sitting in the library reading. Well, that doesn't last long as Bod takes on the school bullies, but he just wants to make things right. Against his better judgement, Silas decides to let Bod go, but he tells him to stay low and don't draw attention to himself. But Bod puts his foot down and says he wants to go to school. We all know Silas as his guardian (the vamp) and he wants to keep Bod safe inside the graveyard as the man that tried to kill him as a baby is still out there in the world looking for him. In this edition we have Bod going on in years from like 11 to 14 and then a young man going out on his own. I'm guessing this is the end for Bod and the family unless they make one where he is out on his own, it's sad :-( (Aug.I loved the first volume of this book when I read it from the library so I bought the first and second volumes. It’s a treasure worth having even if the novel is already on the shelf.
The artwork sets out to entertain rather than to horrify even the initial murder scene has a certain tranquility. Owens, and the other graveyard inhabitants are dressed in evocative period costumes and drawn in ethereal blue, while Bod’s teacher and mentor Silas, about whose status the book was coy, is revealed as a vampire, with a splendid cape and a chiseled jawline. Bod’s devoted adoptive parents, the ghosts Mr. The overall effect is remarkably unified, and the thread of the narrative is alwaysĬrystal-clear. Scott, Galen Showman, and Jill Thompson, contribute a chapter apiece. Russell conceives the look and layout of the graveyard world inhabited by Bod (short for “Nobody”), the infant who has escaped his family’s murderer six artists, including Kevin Nowlan, Stephen B. As he did with Coraline, Russell makes the recasting of Gaiman’s Newbery-winning novel into graphic form look easy with this vastly entertaining adaptation, first in a two-book set (the second volume is due in late September).
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