![]() ![]() It may reach for a kind of nobility, but instead of anything approaching the coolness of academic self-importance, The One Hundred Nights Of Hero is lively and warm and takes a fierce sort of off-the-cuff joy relating one primary thesis: that there is both joy and power in Story. This wasn't ever going to be any kind of a snooty, lofty, huffy kind of a book. ![]() I thought I was reading one kind of book (a sober, reflective story about kings and gods, perhaps), but that was my mistake. My reader's expectations had, of course, abused me. I put the book down and came back to later that evening. It felt entirely too glib for the wonderful fable I was being allowed to observe unfold. It hit me funny and took me out of the book for a moment in a way I didn't appreciate. Two women are snuggling in a bed and then there is a panel of all black with white text, saying: I was enjoying the funny little mythos unveiling in The One Hundred Nights Of Hero when I came across what felt like an intrusive bit of authoring. ![]() I hadn't read Isabel Greenberg's Encyclopedia Of Early Earth (thinking by its title that it was some children's graphic novel-style presentation of Mesopotamian history and culture), and so I was unprepared for the cut of her narrative jib. Daily Graphic Novel Recommendation 120 The One-Hundred Nights Of Hero ![]()
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