Book Club – Eden II

Each month we select a notable graphic novel for the book club.  It is 25% Off to everyone all month.  At the end of the month we meet to discuss.

 

Eden II

by Kenny Wroten

Meeting to discuss:  Saturday Aug 10.  Noon.

Eisner Nominated:

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW

In the grungy, punk-inflected world Kenny Wroten creates, a cast of disaffected young characters struggle to find their purpose in life. Faced with a dying Earth and numbingly useless jobs, protagonists Ellis and Dr. Otis Heck invent an immersive virtual reality game, Eden II. But when Heck betrays Ellis and sells the game to a mysterious corporation, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. As each chapter highlights a new character in the ensemble, the game’s impact grows as the world becomes consumed by fantasy.

Coming off the heels of their acclaimed queer comics Cannonball and Crimes, Eden II is Wroten’s magnum opus, establishing them as a breakout graphic novelist. Philosophical, sarcastic, self-assured, Eden II is a vital work of the moment that positions Wroten alongside recent comics luminaries like Emily Carroll, Caroline Cash, Isabel Greenberg, Melanie Gilman, and Tillie Walden. Reminiscent of the stylized angst of Gregg Araki and Jamie Babbit’s works, Wroten’s imagery in Eden II reflects the blighted pastiche of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker―and they have suffused that pastiche with a dark sense of humor and technologically enhanced moral ambiguity.

PAST SELECTIONS:

6/4/11 Morning Glories

7/9/11 Irredeemable

8/6/11 Chew

9/10/11 Batwoman: Elegy

10/8/11 Fables 1 Legends in Exile

11/5/11 Marvel Zombies 1

12/3/11 Green Hornet: Sins of our Fathers 1

2/11/12 Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

3/3/12  The New Teen Titans: Games

4/12/12 Return of the Dapper Men

6/2/12  Asterios Polyp

8/22/12  Watchmen

10/12/12 Locke & Key 1

12/12/12 Christmas Carole

2/13/13 Invincible

4/13/13 Building Stories

6/18/13 Prophet

8/3/13 Young Inhumans

9/16/13 Midnight Nation

10/13/13 Hawkeye: 1 My life as a weapon

12/28/13  Blacksad

2/12/14 Porcelain

3/29/14 Saga 1

5/17/14 Fatale 1

6/25/14 The Property

8/2/14 Good Dog

9/3/14 Trillium

10/1/14 Rat Queens

11/8/14 WinterWorld

12/5/14 Black Widow 1

1/10/15 Astro City: Life in the Big City

2/28/15 Beautiful Darkness

3/28/15 Seconds

4/25/15 The Wake

5/24/15 Here

6/27/15 This One Summer

7/25/15 Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

9/5/15 The Wicked and the Divine

10/3/15 Black Science: 1

11/7/15 Wytches

12/5/15 Nimona

1/30/16 Jessica Jones: AKA Alias

3/5/16 Supermutant Magic Academy

4/19/16 Private Eye

5/14/16 Southern Bastard

6/11/16 Lady Killer

7/16/16 Long Walk to Valhalla

8/13/16 Monstress

9/10/16 Paper Girls

10/15/16 Panther

11/12/16 Afterlife with Archie

12/10/16 Ruins

1/7/17 Klaus

2/17/17 Mooncop

4/1/17 Sheriff of Babylon

5/13/17 Vision: 1

6/27/17 Eartha

7/29/17 Lennon

8/26/17 Wonder Woman: A True Amazon

9/30/17  Patience

10/28/17 Halloween Tales

11/25/17 My Favorite Things is Monsters

1/6/18 Daytripper

2/10/18 Snotgirl: Green Hair Don’t Care

3/17/18 Black Panther

4/7/18 Niourk

5/12/18 Killing & Dying

6/9/18 Infinity Gauntlet

7/14/18 Black Hammer

8/11/18 Boundless

9/8/18 I Kill Giants

10/20/18 Rome West

12/1/18 Dark Nights Metal

12/29/18 Skyward

2/2/19 Roughneck

3/2/19 Upgrade Soul

4/6/19 WaterSnakes

5/11/19 The Lie and How We Told It

6/8/19 Mister Miracle

7/13/19 Immortal Hulk

8/10/19 Come Again

9/14/19 My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies

10/5/19 Batman White Knight

11/2/19 Bone Parish 1 & 2

12/14/19 Exit Stage Left

1/4/20 Heroes in Crisis

2/1/20 Sabrina

3/7/20 Green Lantern: Intergalactic Lawman

4/18/20 Star Trek Next Generation Mirror Broken

6/13/20 DIE

7/11/20 Something is Killing the Children

8/8/20 Once & Future

9/12/20 Freedom Fighters

10/10/20 Are you Listening?

11/14/20 Uzamaki

12/12/20 Cats of the Louvre

1/4/21 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank

2/13/21 The House

3/13/21 Dracula MotherF**cker

4/10/21 Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen

5/8/21 Dead Day

6/18/21 Rogue Planet

7/10/21 We Only Find Them When They Are Dead

8/7/21 Eight-Lane Runaways

9/11/21 Resistance

10/9/21 Pulp

11/13/21 Basketful of Heads

12/11/21 Department of Truth

1/8/22 Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

2/19/22 Stray Dogs

3/12/22 Graveneye

4/9/22 Oksi

5/14 Carthago

6/11/22 I want to eat your pancreas

7/9/22 Bubble

8/13/22 Ballad of Sophie

9-10 In.

10/8/22 Destroy All Monsters

11/12/22 You Died an Anthology of the Afterlife

12/10/22 Monsters

1/14/23 Goblin Girl

2/11/23 Fantastic Four Full Circle

3/11/23 Ducks

4/8/23 Radiant Black

5/13/23 Nice House on the Lake

6/10/23 TMNT – Last Ronin

7/8/23 Catwoman Lonely City

8/12/23 Rain

9/9/23 Chivalry

10/14 /23 Always Never

11/11/23 Swamp Thing Green Hell

12/16/23 Monica

1/13/24 Eight Billion Genies

2/10/24 Aquaman: Andromeda

3/9/24 Do A Powerbomb

4/13/24 Wonder Woman Historia

5/11/24 Shubeik Lubeik

6/8/24 Godzilla Here Be Dragons

7/13/24 Ashes

8/10/24 Eden II