Linda Medley
Hardcover | Pages: 457 pages Rating: 3.98 | 6618 Users | 718 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Castle Waiting |
| ISBN: | 1560977477 (ISBN13: 9781560977476) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.fantagraphics.com/castlewaitingvol1 |
| Series: | Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection #1 |
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Castle Waiting graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil, but about being a hero in your own home.The opening story, "The Brambly Hedge," tells the origin of the castle itself, which is abandoned by its princess in a comic twist on "Sleeping Beauty" when she rides off into the sunset with her Prince Charming. The castle becomes a refuge for misfits, outcasts, and others seeking sanctuary, playing host to a lively and colorful cast of characters that inhabits the subsequent stories, including a talking anthropomorphic horse, a mysteriously pregnant Lady on the run, and a bearded nun.
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| Title | : | Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection #1) |
| Author | : | Linda Medley |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Graphic Novel Collection |
| Pages | : | Pages: 457 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 2006 by Fantagraphics Books |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Fantasy. Comics. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Young Adult. Graphic Novels Comics |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 6618 Users | 718 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection #1)
This graphic novel which, in vaguely Chaucer-like structure, tells stories set in a fairy tale world and thick with feminist sensibilities, is clever and engaging, but painfully disjointed, with odd, often disappoint emphasis and an ending that isn't really an ending. I enjoyed Linda Medley's characters and some of her concepts, but I think that practice will give her a better sense of what her readers what in the denouement of a novel - namely, a conflict and resolution for her protaganist
I'm not sure about the comparisons to Tolkien's LotR -- it's a bit too whimsical and episodic for that -- but it certainly does portray the world of women. It's not a quest story, it's a fairytale, and it pilfers indiscriminately from fairytales and literature. I liked the slant put on some of these stories, the gentle humour of them, and the community that forms at Castle Waiting. It's not really a story in which things happen -- it's a story in which people happen.I don't feel a huge
I'm not quite sure how to rate Castle Waiting. On one hand the presentation and art inside are excellent. The premise sounds interesting and it kept my attention for the first third or so of it. But after that it was just like.... nothing was happening at all. Just a bunch of strange occurrences and introductions to more strange characters. I wanted to know what had happened with the pregnant lady and how she got there but it wasn't really explained. And when I flipped through to the end to see
I was a little skeptical when I picked this book up at my local library. The cover was beautiful but art really did not intrigue me at first. Nevertheless, the world of fairy tales and folk tales has always drawn me in and so I decided to give it a go. Of course, having Fantagraphics as a publisher did not hurt its reputation as well. Linda Medley definitely does show a master storyteller's finesse in working with already existing concepts and turning them onto a side that is comfortable and
It's like comfort food in comic book form.Cons: certain themes (the romani, the Middle Eastern people being saved by Christianity), the art (very clean - a bit too clean), the animal characters (I'm not sure how they work in-universe), the meandering story line (the main character got lost into a stream of side-characters halfway through).Pros: certain themes (overcoming difficulties by sticking together), the art (very consistent, the style fits the fairy tale theme pretty well), the animal
I'd heard a lot of praise for "Castle Waiting" & this book did not disappoint in charm. I wasn't pulled in by the artwork, so it took me a few days to actually open the book & get down to brass tacks. The opening story is a (not very interesting) re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty story. Though the story is very told, i noticed small nuances that made the characters seem more relatable than characters tend to be in fairy tale retellings. After Sleeping Beauty is kissed by her prince, the
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