Comic Quest Comic Book Club!

 

Talk about the comics you love with people who also love comics!

 

25% off the monthly selection!

 

Saturday 6/2/12 

 

 

This month:

 

 Asterios Polyp 

Asterios Polyp

What up with this?

Description
Received the Best Graphic Album award in 2010.

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?

As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.

In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.

Asterios Polyp
is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.


 

 

It’ll be like Oprah’s Book Club but with less Oprah Winfrey and more comics!*

*Comic Quest cannot guarantee that Oprah Winfrey will not show up.

 

Past Books:

Saturday 6/4 1 PM  Morning Glories

Saturday 7/9 1 PM  Irredeemable

Saturday 8/6 1 PM  Chew

Saturday 9/10 1 PM Batwoman: Elegy

Saturday 10/8 1 PM Fables 1 Legends in Exile

Saturday 11/5 1 PM Marvel Zombies 1

Saturday 12/3 1 PM Green Hornet: Sins of our Fathers 1

Saturday 2/11/12 1 PM Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

3/3/12  The New Teen Titans: Games

4/12/12 Return of the Dapper Men