Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian
by:
James Turner (author)
The astonishing story of the incomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library, and his unending struggle against the forces of ignorance and darkness. Rex travels to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses, and armed...
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The astonishing story of the incomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library, and his unending struggle against the forces of ignorance and darkness. Rex travels to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses, and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take on virtually any foe from zombies to renegade literary characters. In this first collection of Librarian adventures, Rex must confront the powerful Space Warlord Vaglox and retrieve the overdue Principia Mathematica while an energy manifestation of blood thirsty Vandals attempt to burn down Middleton Library, and all within, to the ground. Rex Libris is a huge hit with librarians and readers everywhere.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781593620622 (1593620624)
Publish date: July 17th 2007
Publisher: SLG Publishing
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
Series: Rex Libris -5 (#1)
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2009/11/graphic-novel-monday-rex-libris-i.html
The outrageous adventures of the interplanetary-traveling, dimension-jumping exploits of a pistol-packing, two-fisted, immortal librarian. Ridiculous fun.
Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Librarians! Fighting evil in significant ley-line locations since cuneiform*! With clever repartee and nerdy witticisms and so much worm food. Wally the Word Worm food, that is. (I met him here: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)*Spell check knows c...
Eh. Neither the art, nor the character of Rex, nor the long text blocks in tiny type, nor the story really grabbed me. Too bad, because the concept is so appealing: it is Rex's job to bring overdue books from all over the universe back to their home in the world's greatest library, in Middleton.