All of this is to say that my soft spot for Avatar, and my missing of it, is relatively fresh. All it took was one man telling me to watch Rick & Morty for me to tell the following four men that I would not by any means watch that show.)īut anyway. Instead, I watched it for the first time a few years ago, through a process called “A Boy I Was Dating-ish Told Me To Watch It And Back Then I Actually Did That Sort Of Thing.” I am not a Normal Person who grew up watching Avatar, or otherwise watched it when they were in the target demographic of the show.
(And in the interest of full discretion, I don’t know whether this comparison would have come to me on my own, because it first occurred to me after I read a blurb the co-creator of Avatar wrote for it.) The most important thing I have to say about this book, and essentially the only thing, is that reminds me of Avatar: The Last Airbender. 3) This entire volume gently touches on the words we use for each other and for ourselves, and I think it offers kids a hard-to-teach lesson in a way they can effortlessly digest. 2) There's a monkish tower centering both the city and the book, and as a sucker for hermit-mythology-magic-people-hiding-in-trees-towers-cars-whatnot-tropes, I'm keen to learn more about it as well (luckily for me, I think, as the second one is called The Stone Tower). There were three things that struck me the most: 1) I read this with Thing 1, who is 11, and both she and I were very pleased with the parkour-visuals of Kaidu learning to run over rooftops.
By staying the course on Kaidu's budding friendship with a girl from another part of the city, Hicks keeps the story cohesive and suitably intimate. Hicks takes her time setting up multiple characters and drawing the world (literally), showing us how many alleyways she could have turned down but didn't, hinting at the stories she might have told but hasn't yet. This middle-grade graphic novel is a series beginning in all the satisfying ways and none of the frustrating ones.
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