Kickstart Comics
Jack Monaco, writer
Javi Fernandez, artist
(Today's headline is a quote from author Spider Robinson.)
I have to be honest; I'd never heard of Kickstart Comics before. I was buying another book from a seller on eBay and the cover of this book caught my eye among the other items being sold. Many of us get into comics for the love of characters who have been around for decades and have new adventures added to their legends every month or so. But every now and again, it is nice to read a simple, done-in-one original graphic novel about something new. That is what Kickstart seems to specialize in -- mostly all-ages, digest sized OGNs about a variety of subjects and characters.
In this book, Lilah is a college student who really doesn't much care for libraries. She was forced to spend a great deal of her childhood in libraries, being ignored by her father as he pored over various research texts. But that was before Lilah bumps into Zeke and ends up with a book he was trying to steal for a man named Dr. Xerxes St. Martin. The book changes Lilah, expanding her mind and making her aware of secret passages connecting all of the libraries of the world. St. Martin explains that these secret passages are used by the Keepers, a group of ancient librarians who seeks to control all knowledge. St. Martin explains that the Keepers will even forcibly take knowledge away if they deem mankind not yet ready for it, and he asks Lilah and Zeke to help him recover the blueprints to an invention stolen from him by the Keepers.
This was a fun adventure tale mixing a lot of history and intrigue. The plot is similar to other tales of the same genre, but there are a few twists along the way. The author of this book, by the way, is one of the writers from the television show "Pushing Daisies," which both my wife and I really enjoyed during its too-short run. And the art is nice and easy to follow, complimenting the narrative as the best graphic storytelling should. I enjoyed this book, and plan to check out some of Kickstart's other offerings as a result.
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