Earthdivers, Vol. 1
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The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his comics debut with this time-hopping horror thriller about far-future Indigenous outcasts on a mission to kill Christopher Columbus. The year is 2112, and it’s the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own—a reluctant linguist named Tad—on a bloody, one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. But there are steep costs to disrupting the timeline, and taking down an icon isn’t an easy task for an academic with no tactical training and only a wavering moral compass to guide him. As the horror of the task ahead unfolds and Tad’s commitment is tested, his actions could trigger a devastating new fate for his friends and the future. Join Stephen Graham Jones and artist Davide Gianfelice for Earthdivers, Vol. 1, the beginning of an unforgettable ongoing sci-fi slasher spanning centuries of America’s Colonial past to explore the staggering forces of history and the individual choices we make to survive it.
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3 primary booksEarthdivers is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Stephen Graham Jones.
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I think I was wanting too much from this and it didn't bring everything for me. A lot of the reviews were all praises but I didn't feel all the samet. The artwork was amazing, I really liked the faces and I could feel (well see) their emotions clearly. The colouring was done really well and I love vibrant designs in graphic novels.
It was a bit difficult to constantly go from 2112 and 1492. I think both of the times were written well, maybe it was just the way the scenes would move from between the different times? I didn't really understand the 2112 plot all too well? It felt like Jones was trying to push too much plot into the novel. But as I haven't read any of his other books; I don't know if that's something he usually does.
The characters were interesting and the story was really really good. The synopsis is what made me want to read it in the first place. It just wasn't all enough to make me like it a lot more. I won't be reading the next volumes but I will read more from Stephan Graham Jones.
