The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain and the co-creator of Stumptown, now a hit series on ABC TV, team up for an action-packed coming of age story about a mutant from the Pacific Northwest. The Cloven Book One stars James Tucker, the most successful Genetically Modified Human Organism ever created. Conceived in a privately financed, top-secret laboratory on Washington state's Vashon Island, Tucker is a cross between a human and a goat - a Cloven. Known to his friends as "Tuck," all he wants is to live a normal life as a university student; everything is going fine, until he shows a girl his hooves… Moody and mysterious and atmospheric as a fever dream, The Cloven Book One follows Tuck's breakneck journey across the Pacific Northwest as he searches for his true home out there somewhere. Book One of a raucous, funny, fast-moving, and dynamic series of graphic novels by two bestselling and critically acclaimed storytellers. The Cloven Book One features a special full-color four page fold-out spread.… (plus d'informations)
A bare sketch of a fairly generic story is offered up with some scratchy and splotchy art, including one of the most underwhelming four-page fold-out splash pages I've ever seen. Homelessness and parkour are shoved into the book as the protagonist escapes from the secret lab that produced him through genetic experimentation and wanders around Washington State trying to figure out who he might be in the real world.
This quick read has a to-be-continued ending that fails to make me care about Book Two. ( )
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I was conceived in the rancid backseat of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo after a Friday night basketball game . . . in which my father scored two points before fouling out in five minutes of play, the dumb, untalented lunk.
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Yes, I know what time it is -- I wouldn't call if it wasn't something important . . . He's found others.
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The original short story, "The Cloven," by Garth Stein, was commissioned by Hugo House, a writers center in Seattle, as part of the Hugo Literary Series. The theme for the evening: "Gods and Monsters." [Event date: February 19, 2010 - https://www.garthstein.com/garth-will-...]
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain and the co-creator of Stumptown, now a hit series on ABC TV, team up for an action-packed coming of age story about a mutant from the Pacific Northwest. The Cloven Book One stars James Tucker, the most successful Genetically Modified Human Organism ever created. Conceived in a privately financed, top-secret laboratory on Washington state's Vashon Island, Tucker is a cross between a human and a goat - a Cloven. Known to his friends as "Tuck," all he wants is to live a normal life as a university student; everything is going fine, until he shows a girl his hooves… Moody and mysterious and atmospheric as a fever dream, The Cloven Book One follows Tuck's breakneck journey across the Pacific Northwest as he searches for his true home out there somewhere. Book One of a raucous, funny, fast-moving, and dynamic series of graphic novels by two bestselling and critically acclaimed storytellers. The Cloven Book One features a special full-color four page fold-out spread.
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