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From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver), Scott Hampton (American Gods), and Paul Chadwick (Concrete) comes a graphic novel adaptations of the short stories and poems: The Problem of Susan, October in the Chair, Locks, and The Day the Saucers Came. Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and experience. Where the incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories, where an older college professor recounts a Narnian childhood, where the apocalypse unfolds, and where the importance of generational storytelling is seen through the Goldilocks fairytale. These four comic adaptations have something for everyone and are a must for Gaiman fans!.… (more)
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* The Problem of Susan
* Locks
* October in the Chair
* The Day the Saucers Came
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The second story "Locks" is a very short one built around Goldilocks and the Three Bears and again bringing adult reflection to bear on children's literature. In the third tale "October in the Chair," personified months of the year have assembled around a fire in the woods for what seems to be a recurring convocation in which they exchange stories. October's contribution is the centerpiece, and it's suitably autumnal and spooky. The final piece in the book is hardly a story at all, more of a short poem really, called "The Day the Saucers Came." Paul Chadwick's art for this one is entirely in full-page illustrations, just seven of them.
I feel we're caught in a cycle of mutual assured boredom...