Read on! Cosmoknights and The Horizon
Posted on July 4, 2024 at 6:30 am by Gene Ambaum
Cosmoknights Book Two by Hannah Templer. Top Shelf, 2023. 9781603095112. 278pp.
This graphic novel is as good as the first in the series, though you should read that one if you haven’t. It’s about a crew of women who seem to be competing in combat contests to win the hands of princesses, but who are actually setting the princesses free. They may soon be ready to take their mission to the next step even as freeing the princess they have in hand gets more complicated. Pan (you’d know her if you’d read the last book) begins training in zero-gravity combat. Plus there’s queer romance galore and space pirates!
This book is just so satisfying, and so much fun. I can’t wait for the third book. Worth noting: It has my favorite dedication ever: “To Found Family”
The Horizon Volume 2 by JH. Translation by Ultramedia. Ize Press, 2023. 9798400900303. 360pp.
The Horizon Volume 3 by JH. Translation by Ultramedia. Ize Press, 2023. 9798400900310. 360pp.
This Korean graphic novel series wraps with volume 3. It’s the story of two kids in a post-apocalyptic world. Highlights include The Man in the Suit, who rescues the kids at the beginning of Volume 2 and then teaches the boy how to use a gun. The girls’ survival backstory is told in detail. Volume 3 continues with a meeting that’s heartbreaking, and then the story jumps into the future a few decades.
Great Korean stories never go places I expect, and this continues that trend in a way I admire.
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