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57th out of 102 books
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32 voters
Carnal: Pride of the Lions
by
John Connell
The first graphic novel in the Carnal series, Pride of the Lions takes place on the continent of New Africa and focuses on three main species of humanistic animals. After the Great War decades earlier between the hyenas and the lions, the victorious and once united lion prides now lay scattered across the land, torn by civil unrest over territory disputes and food shortage...more
Hardcover, 120 pages
Published
May 15th 2012
by Sea Lion Books
(first published January 25th 2012)
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Rating: 5 out of 5 EPIC Controllers
Review Source: Publisher for Honest Review
Reviewer: Me
John Connell has created a masterpiece. Moreover, he has created something new and exciting in the world of graphic novels. A rich and engrossing story coupled with lush illustrations, Carnal: Pride of the Lions is a well-oiled machine that feeds on readers emotions. It will leave you angry, teary-eyed, with knots in your stomach, and if you can get past all of those...more
Rating: 5 out of 5 EPIC Controllers
Review Source: Publisher for Honest Review
Reviewer: Me
John Connell has created a masterpiece. Moreover, he has created something new and exciting in the world of graphic novels. A rich and engrossing story coupled with lush illustrations, Carnal: Pride of the Lions is a well-oiled machine that feeds on readers emotions. It will leave you angry, teary-eyed, with knots in your stomach, and if you can get past all of those...more
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I had mixed feelings about this book. It had some things that I really enjoyed and other things that I didn’t care for.
First, the good.
The art was fantastic. The story takes place on the African Serengeti. The main protagonists are lions, however not the lions that we know today. Instead, they are lions that have evolved into a sort of caricature of a human. They walk on two legs. They have hands. However, they also have the faces...more
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I had mixed feelings about this book. It had some things that I really enjoyed and other things that I didn’t care for.
First, the good.
The art was fantastic. The story takes place on the African Serengeti. The main protagonists are lions, however not the lions that we know today. Instead, they are lions that have evolved into a sort of caricature of a human. They walk on two legs. They have hands. However, they also have the faces...more
FAN-ROARING-TASTIC!
Absolutely WOW! I fell in love with the book cover first because the graphics are so alluring but the story far exceeds in brilliance and creativity in this tribal quest for survival novel. The god like fierce and massive warriors will captivate you immediately at every turn of the page. Each chapter is enhanced with a visual graphic that tells the story on its own and only intensifies the already imaginative vision you have created in your mind from the author’s smooth writin...more
Absolutely WOW! I fell in love with the book cover first because the graphics are so alluring but the story far exceeds in brilliance and creativity in this tribal quest for survival novel. The god like fierce and massive warriors will captivate you immediately at every turn of the page. Each chapter is enhanced with a visual graphic that tells the story on its own and only intensifies the already imaginative vision you have created in your mind from the author’s smooth writin...more
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In this lushly illustrated book, somewhere between a novel and a graphic novel, the world is shown to be a very different place. Humans have polluted the environment and tinkered with genetics to the point where mutations have occurred, making animals more like humans – and they have hunted the humans to near-extinction. Lions and water buffalo maintain an uneasy truce; the hyenas are their common enemy. The lions have driven the hyenas underground and maintained a neutral border for decades – b...more
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What if we lived in a world where animals ruled the world and the human race became all but obsolete? What if rather than humans evolving into superior beings, animals such as lions and hyenas fought for control of the world’s power? All of these what if’s are discussed and explored in John Connell’s graphic novel Carnal: Pride of the Lions.
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Although I would describe the book less as a graphic novel, as it's not a comic book in the conventional sense, and that's what I was expecting, "Carnal: Pride of the Lions" tells the grim story of one particular pride of lions led by Long Eyes, who has a son, Oron, and all the prides are at war with the hyenas, who have been given a nice updated treatment here, similar to what "Lord of the Rings" did for Elves to get rid of the image in people's minds of the little shoemaker elves or the Rice K...more
I must say on first impression the cover certainly drew me in !! The illustrations throughout this book are certainly memorable and fantastic !!!! The creativity is stunning and the storyline just mind boggling so detailed and intriuging -
The illustrations will leave you but to awe with the visual graphics displayed telling there own story along the way. With pictures like these your are able to easily envisage everything its just AMAZING !!!!!!!!!! This book may just give you an over active i...more
The illustrations will leave you but to awe with the visual graphics displayed telling there own story along the way. With pictures like these your are able to easily envisage everything its just AMAZING !!!!!!!!!! This book may just give you an over active i...more
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If pressed, I'd admit that not all anthropomorphic animal books are my style. It took me a while to get into Carnal because of this, but I have to admit... the artwork kept bringing me back. Why? Because it's freaking amazing. As far as the story goes, it's pretty much Avatar mixed with Lion King mixed with a dystopian-esque world.
For me, the artwork was one of the best parts of this read. Connell is pretty skilled and his artwork brings a really lovely touch to the story. The animal-people in t...more
For me, the artwork was one of the best parts of this read. Connell is pretty skilled and his artwork brings a really lovely touch to the story. The animal-people in t...more
I must say this is absolutely amazing. The story a bit longer then I expected. It reminds me of a Native American telling a tale. It has that feel to it. Also I am reminded of Land of the Lost, but not as cheesy. The graphics are wonderful and without even looking at them you can picture it in your minds eye.
Occasionally the tenses get a little confusing. The only real problem I had with the book was wishing that my son was young enough so that I could read it to him and share the pictures. Not...more
Occasionally the tenses get a little confusing. The only real problem I had with the book was wishing that my son was young enough so that I could read it to him and share the pictures. Not...more
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First of all I have to say that the art work in this book is amazing, absolutely beautiful. Carnal is about a futuristic tribe of lions who have morphed into almost human in appearance, the story is not a happy one. The tribe must fight for its existence and that means wars, death and destruction. Many other races have morphed also, the fighting and deceit are brutal. Power is wanted by all.
Starvation is another real threat to the pride and the reason for the best of the best leaving to find the...more
Starvation is another real threat to the pride and the reason for the best of the best leaving to find the...more
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Fantastic story, amazing art. I will own the print version of this book when it becomes available!
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phenomenal artwork and really graphic and violent story, it is excellent!
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