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After his mother's death, teen Dwayne is forced to uproot himself and move into the home where his mother grew up: a shabby apartment in Brooklyn. Overshadowed by his socially salient older brother, and pressured by his policeman father, Dwayne often feels out of place, a sentiment that is only intensified in these unfamiliar surroundings. Before too long, however, his
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Hardcover, 112 pages
Published
June 11th 2019
by BiG
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It was quite short. I felt that it moved a bit to fast. Though overall, a nice and cool story for middle grade.
Thank you to Hoopla Digital where I borrowed this story for free...
Thank you to Hoopla Digital where I borrowed this story for free...
A disparate group of kids take on all of the wild and scary happenings in the neighborhood--giant alligators in the sewers, huge bedbugs everywhere, and gargoyles that have come alive and swoop down to collect unsuspecting couples. Full of adventure. Great friendship book. Perfect in the graphic novel format.
More like Urban myths. Might have liked this more if the title hadn't been misleading.
The monsters are cool, and a lot of readers will like it, but it is more about Brooklyn than it is about a mystery or monsters.
Tales of the big city involving flying gargoyles, giant rats, monster bed bugs, toilet alligators, territorial gangs, urban renewal and political intrigue is the stuff that urban legends are made of in a new kids comic book entitled Urban Legendz. Paul Downs,Nick Bruno and Michael Yates have joined forces to create a an urban story about a group of good, yet troubled, kids in Brooklyn, New York who join forces to fight off an array of monsters destroying people within their community.
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There's some good stuff surrounding the main character's family relationships, and I liked that the villain of the story gets significantly more complicated at the end of the book. But the storytelling is really, really thin. For example, the main character's mother died before the book starts, but I have absolutely no idea how she died. Illness? Accident? It's never stated or even alluded to, and I feel like that would make a big difference in how the characters process their grief. Likewise,
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URBAN LEGENDZ is the start of what promises to be an awesome new graphic novel series. I love how Bruno is able to weave together grief, gentrification, father-son relationships, homelessness, and found family, in addition to giant alligators and sentient evil gargoyles. At its core this book is about Dwayne finding his people and reclaiming his life after losing his mother, and the friendship between him, Cashew, Mya, and Worm. I also LOVED how Bruno perfectly orchestrated the prep montage in
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URBAN LEGENDZ is the start of what promises to be an awesome new graphic novel series. I love how Bruno is able to weave together grief, gentrification, father-son relationships, homelessness, and found family, in addition to giant alligators and sentient evil gargoyles. At its core this book is about Dwayne finding his people and reclaiming his life after losing his mother, and the friendship between him, Cashew, Mya, and Worm. I also LOVED how Bruno perfectly orchestrated the prep montage in
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I enjoyed this graphic novel and Im looking forward to the next installment. I think it was a good start to the series and I am eager to see what happens to the different characters. I would have liked to have learned more about each of the kids as well as Riff Raff in this book but I have a feeling the authors deliberately left a lot to explore as the series develops. If there had been more about the individuals or a slightly deeper focus on any one character I would have rated the book higher.
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I learned to read from comic books when I was a kid. I'm afraid I wasn't really impressed by this. And I thought, perhaps it's just my age showing. I gave it to my teenage granddaughter and unfortunately she wasn't impressed either. She's more into Manga. We both agreed that it was better suited for maybe 13-15 year old boys.
There were a couple of places where it seemed hard to follow.
Redeeming Value: Shows friendships, cooperation with others. At the end it gave a little review of each ...more
There were a couple of places where it seemed hard to follow.
Redeeming Value: Shows friendships, cooperation with others. At the end it gave a little review of each ...more
Dwayne's family just moved back to his mom's old stomping ground. Dwayne isn't happy about moving but his mother just passed away and he, his older brother and his father, move in with his mother's mom. According to his father, the neighborhood has unfortunately changed a lot. Dwayne makes friends with some other kids and soon ends up helping them solve a mystery about why people are starting to disappear. He learns there are mythical creatures who are equally unhappy about the changes in the
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I won this in a Goodreads Giveaway. Although the concept was interesting, overall felt more like an early storyboard for a movie than a completed, cohesive graphic novel. I had trouble following some of the panels and there were some pretty significant plot holes than a young kid might be able to overlook, but some of images might be too scary for a kid that young. As a result, it's hard to know who exactly the target audience is.
The story is a little underdeveloped but it's still a good book for middle grade/teens. My affection for it on a personal level also runs pretty deep. And, maybe because the authors have a background in film animation, there are particular panels with really interesting ways of exploring depth of field the way that a camera would to emphasize dramatic effect/character emotions. <3
A fun graphic novel/comic book. Leave it to the kids and the wise homeless man to realize that all the mysterious disappearances are caused by urban legends come to larger-than-life and to figure out how to save the day.
I liked the use of the urban legends- although it probably can get a little graphic for younger and more sensitive children (there's a lot of death and people getting eaten). Pretty entertaining, though, and I can see it being very popular.
A fun friendship adventure. Fun artwork. Hope there will be more
3.5/5 solid characterization, good illustrations, and interesting story. Grades 4-7.
This was such a fun book!! I won this book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended.
Graphic novel about kids fighting real urban legend monsters in Brooklyn.
Okay for the entire library.
The only one I knew that existed was the crocs in the toilet.
Pretty fun. Ambitious.
This was fun! Looking forward to the next installment!
So I went through this period where I put a whole bunch of graphic novels on hold at the library, this was one of them.
Do I really remember the ins and outs of this book nah. But basically the cover sums it up. In New York City there are a bunch of attacks of children and a found family of friends searches out to figure out what happened. Low and behold it's Urban Legends that are attacking and killing these kids and it's the kids and a homeless mans mission to save the city.
Do I really remember the ins and outs of this book nah. But basically the cover sums it up. In New York City there are a bunch of attacks of children and a found family of friends searches out to figure out what happened. Low and behold it's Urban Legends that are attacking and killing these kids and it's the kids and a homeless mans mission to save the city.
Fun story with a good message of coming together as a community. I also love the idea that everyone is needed regardless of who they are and how they look.
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