The New York Four - Softcover

Kelly, Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401211542 ISBN 13: 9781401211547

Publisher: Minx, 2008

Synopsis

Riley, a shy straight-A student, struggles to balance her first year of college with new friends, a reunion with her estranged sister, and a secret virtual relationship that begins to consume her time, attention, and energy.

About this title

About the Author:

Multiple Eisner Award-nominee Brian Wood released his first series, Channel Zero, to considerable critical acclaim in 1997 and has gone on to create hard-hitting original series such as DMZ, Northlanders, The Couriers, and The Massive. Adding to that body of work, he's also written some of the biggest titles in pop culture, with work on Star Wars, Conan The Barbarian, Lord Of The Rings, and The X-Men. Brian lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn, NY. The author lives in NY, NY.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 10 Up–Riley enters into a standardized test beta with three NYU classmates in order to make some money to get an apartment together. A good student with limited social skills due to her controlling, academic parents, the teen relies heavily on online interactions. As she begins to get to know her classmates and to reconnect with her outcast older sister, a secret virtual relationship threatens to destabilize everything. Wood is known for incorporating a strong sense of place into his comic work, and, while this is a story about growing up and learning to communicate, the classic bohemian fixtures of clubs and brownstones, and the inclusion of New York City landmarks, help make the book feel grounded. Kelly's energetic artwork conveys a sense of activity and movement. His portrayal of one character, Merissa, tends toward caricature more than the others, and panels are occasionally too busy to find the focus of the scene easily, but the detailed settings are nicely evocative. Wood tries to do too much, resulting in a scattered set-up of Riley's classmates' individual stories–glimpses of what are surely the main focuses of future volumes–leaving readers with what is disappointingly not quite an entire story, but one that is superbly told.–Benjamin Russell, Belmont High School, NH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Minx
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1401211542
• ISBN 13: 9781401211547
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176