By Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura; Image Comics
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Kill Giants is the story of Barbara Thorson, a girl who is obsessed with killing giants.
She knows the giants are coming and that it is absolutely up to her to wield
the mighty hammer Coveleski to slay her gigantic foes and protect her family from
certain destruction. Barbara is also an elementary school student where she is a
dorky, Dungeons and Dragons obsessed loner with a penchant for offending
authority. And yet there is something else Barabara must deal with, another
monstrous reality that she cannot face. And so instead she kills giants. I Kill
Giants is a pretty heartfelt comic that tells a story that, like some sort of
emotions singularity, just drags empathy out of you. It is also a pretty clever
comic, balancing the opposing forces of fantasy and reality to sort of play
with that fuzzy space inbetween in this pretty interesting way. I Kill
Giants is a pretty fun comic too: the story has an energy to it, characters are
vibrant, and Barabara is pretty hilarious. But I think the thing that nabs me most is
that I found the comic eminently relatable. Shockingly, I was a pretty dorky kid
who, before I found my peeps, leaned into the fictional world (your sci-fi,
your fantasy, etc) to get through the special hell of the educational system.
Now, my situation was nowhere as tough as Barbara's, but I get where she is coming
from, in a way I too killed giants. Try it.
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