The Backstagers, Vol. 2: The Show Must Go On
by:
James Tynion (author)
Rian Sygh (illustrator)
All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic—literally! Jory and the rest of the Backstagers have one goal this semester: to put on the best show their town’s ever seen. But best laid plans aren’t easy to achieve when there’s an entire magical world that lives...
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All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic—literally!
Jory and the rest of the Backstagers have one goal this semester: to put on the best show their town’s ever seen. But best laid plans aren’t easy to achieve when there’s an entire magical world that lives beyond the curtain! When one of the actors suddenly goes missing, the Backstagers must band together to save their comrade and maintain the natural balance of . . . theater.
James Tynion IV (Detective Comics, The Woods) and artist Rian Sygh (Munchkin, Stolen Forest) explore what it means to be an outcast looking to find one’s place in an earnest story of friendship and self-expression.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781684150571 (1684150574)
Publish date: 2018-02-13
Publisher: BOOM! Box
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Series: the backstagers (#2)
The heart of this one is an arc that seems to have been pared down and tweaked to be made into 'Ghost Light'. It was a touching story, but it failed to make the impression on me, it likely would have it I had read this before the novel. The novel, by comparison, would then have made me a little an...
Genderbent Lumberjanes, basically and it's fantastic! The neon lighting with the incredible artwork and character expression is top notch from James Tynion IV and Adventure Time/Dreamwork's cartoonist Rian Sygh.
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