two graphic novels
Feb. 13th, 2015 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraZahra's Paradise, Amir and Khalil (both pseuds). A fictionalized story of a family looking for a young man who vanished in the June 2009 protests in Iran, and the various indignities/oppressions/atrocities they uncover. I can't exactly recommend it as pleasure reading, but it's very powerful, both the story itself and the sixteen thousand tiny names in the back of people killed by the Islamic Republic between 1979 and 2009. (In addition to rape, torture, and murder, which you might have guessed from the subject matter, the prologue has a graphic depiction of animal harm.)
Tune Book 1: Vanishing Point, Derek Kirk Kim. I swear I remember part of this from his website years and years ago, but now it has a sci-fi framing story and at least one more volume in print. I won't be reading more of this, I really didn't like the main character or his icky romance, although the frame story (dude gets hired by alien robots to be in a zoo exhibit of humans) has some potential.
Tune Book 1: Vanishing Point, Derek Kirk Kim. I swear I remember part of this from his website years and years ago, but now it has a sci-fi framing story and at least one more volume in print. I won't be reading more of this, I really didn't like the main character or his icky romance, although the frame story (dude gets hired by alien robots to be in a zoo exhibit of humans) has some potential.
