Dungeons and Dragons and Frost Giant’s Fury make for a lively discussion in this week’s Major Spoilers Podcast. We also review Monkey Prince #1 and One-Star Squadron #3 from DC Comics and Red Sonja Valentines Day Special 2022 from Dynamite Entertainment.
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NEWS
Art Spiegelman decries Tennessee school board for removing ‘Maus’ from its curriculum
subscribe to NPR’s Book of the Day podcast Author Art Spiegelman says he felt “jaw-dropping disbelief” upon learning about the decision from a Tennessee school district to ban his graphic novel about the Holocaust. “This has been used in schools for a very long time, usually from middle school on up,” he told NPR and WBUR’s Here and Now on Friday.
Florida Polk County Schools Pull Raina Telgemeier’s Drama From Shelves
Polk County in Florida is the latest to be subject to banning of the critically acclaimed bestselling graphic novels from schools, part of a series of such exclusions in recent years that Bleeding Cool has covered.
Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers
KATY, Texas – From a secluded spot in her high school library, a 17-year-old girl spoke softly into her cellphone, worried that someone might overhear her say the things she’d hidden from her parents for years.
REVIEWS
STEPHEN
MONKEY PRINCE #1
Writer: Gene Luen Yang
Artist: Bernard Chang
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 1, 2022
Introducing the newest hero in the DCU, the great sage, equal to the heavens, better than his predecessor the legendary Monkey King, even better than the Justice League—and definitely the Teen Titans—(actually, all the heroes combined), everyone put your hands together for…the Monkey Prince! Marcus Sun moves around a lot because his adoptive parents are freelance henchpeople, so this month he finds himself as the new kid at Gotham City High School, where a mysterious man with pig features asks Marcus to walk through a water curtain to reveal himself as who Marcus really is…someone who has adventured through The Journey to the West, can transform into 72 different formations, can clone himself using his hairs, and is called…the Monkey Prince!
MATTHEW
ONE-STAR SQUADRON #3
Writer: Mark Russell
Artist: Steve Lieber
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 1, 2022
Things just keep getting worse for Red Tornado as he’s called in to face his most ferocious foe yet…the Board! This group of money-hungry investors are willing to do just about anything to turn a profit, and that could mean the end of Heroz4U. Now, as the company’s stock plummets, our hero questions why he got into the lifesaving business in the first place. When the time comes, will there be anyone left to save him?
RODRIGO
RED SONJA VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL (2022)
Writer: Chuck Brown
Artist: Lee Ferguson
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: Feb 02, 2022
BURNING LOVE! Red Sonja’s temporarily developed fire powers… which is handy, since she’s in a land where warlords possess deadly ice powers. Sonja finds herself amidst a lovers quarrel, in which someone exchanged their heart and soul (quite literally) for overwhelming power. Can Sonja defeat a greedy cherub ogre and restore peace to the freezing lands?
DISCUSSION
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: FROST GIANT’S FURY
Writer: Jim Zub
Artist: Netho Diaz
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Cover Price: $8.99
Release Date: November 2017
Mighty giants stir across the land and before their crushing might, nothing is safe. Badly injured after their encounters in the Demiplane of Dread and now lost in the frozen northern reaches of the Forgotten Realms, the Baldur’s Gate heroes will be tested like never before. Roll for initiative, a new Dungeons & Dragons adventure begins!
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