#Faith Erin Hicks

[faitherinhicks]

2024 plans.

#comics #faith erin hicks #artists on tumblr

[the-book-ferret]

Pumpkinheads

#thebookferret #books #booklr #book worm #book nerd #book pets #book addict #book photography #bibliophile #ferret #ferrets of tumblr #pets of tumblr #wasabi #pumpkinheads #faith erin hicks #rainbow rowell #graphic novel

[songazula]

aaron ehasz and faith erin hicks are the only ones who can write azula. bryke hate women and can't write for shit

#azula #azula in the spirit temple #aaron ehasz #faith erin hicks #anti bryke

[zuko-always-lies]

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#ATLA #avatar the last airbender #gene yang #faith erin hicks #ATLA polls #ATLA poll #avatar comics #Avatar

[loopy777]

I apologize if you've answered this question before, but what are your general opinions on Faith Erin Hicks's writing vs. Gene Yang's for the Avatar Comics? Hick's seems to be significantly more faithful to the characters from my perspective, but I've only read a couple of her works(Suki Alone and Azula in the Spirit Temple). On the other hand, I'm not blown away with ideas behind these comics, with Suki Alone particularly failing to do anything remotely interesting with Suki's character.

You know, I don't think I've ever posted anything on Hicks's comics in general. I've 'reviewed' individual comics of hers, but never spoke on her overall level of writing, characterization, and/or style.

Basically, I think her work is infinitely superior to Gene Yang's in every way while never quite hitting a home run.

What's become an outlier to her overall body of Avatar work is the first thing she got to write for the franchise (although she'd previously drawn a short story that Yang wrote), the Imbalance trilogy. I think she absolutely nailed the characterization of the gAang, created intriguing original characters, wrote dialogue that sounds like something human beings would say while also capturing individual character voices, and successfully depicted a world that has progressed beyond the cartoon's finale. I also think it's the only thing in the franchise that successfully engages with the idea of Aang's ability to take away bending.

But that story was also hobbled by being an explicit prequel to LoK, saddled with that nonsensical Bender Vs NonBender conflict. Hicks did a fair job trying to explain it and manifest it, but it's still mostly nonsense if you stop and think about it for a second. We also have an eye-rolling moment where Toph discovers how great it is to fight with metal cables, but at least it's a quick moment that wouldn't have stuck out if the narrative hadn't stopped to call it out.

I also think the final act of the comic was a bit of a fizzle. I can't say anything is really wrong with it, and it doesn't try to resolve things by claiming all the problems are solved forever, but it still feels like it doesn't quite live up to the questions and conflicts it raises in the first two parts and ultimately ends in a non-surprising way. It's not bad, just a bit underwhelming. I never got around to reading the final part of Hicks's Nameless City trilogy, so I don't know if that's common for her. But, you know, it's far from the worst thing in the world to be a storyteller whose worst trait are endings that merely satisfy instead of wow.

Unfortunately, this is around the time the franchise decided that new cartoons are back on the menu and Avatar Studios is a thing, so all of Hicks's other work has been hit hard by the company mandate that Absolutely Nothing Matters Unless It Is Animated. So I can quickly zoom through the rest of her oeuvre with a + and - for each:

Katara and the Pirate's Silver + A cute little adventure that nails Katara's character. - There's not enough material here for the full pagecount, so a separate and very stupid subplot with the rest of the gAang is thrown in to absolutely no consequence.

Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy + There are some amusing gags here. - This is hit hard by the one-two punch of being saddled with a lot of characters created by Gene Yang and also dealing with lore created by LoK.

Suki, Alone + A great little character study of Suki. - Utterly pointless and even goes out of its way to provide absolutely no confirmed details about Suki's family.

Azula in the Spirit Temple + Exactly the story Azula needs at this phase in her arc with delightfully solid characterization. - So open-ended that the next Azula story can easily ruin her character again, thus it feels more like we're poised to take the next step rather than actually taking it.

When all we're getting is stuff designed to be as inconsequential as possible, not matter how well-characterized, it's hard for the stories to feel like they have an impact. Now, I'm not saying I'm against the concept of 'filler,' as they can be great episodes, but the problem is that these comics are dealing with characters whose arcs have already been fully detailed for us, the audience, and we've already seen the characters' best stories. We're treading ground that's already been covered, and it takes a very clever storyteller to really wow with that kind of setup. Hicks, while a good storyteller who gets the characters and franchise, has never shown (at least in what I've read of hers) that snappy kind of cleverness.

Ironically, Gene Yang has -- consistently -- in his original graphics novels that I've read. But he really did not bring it to his Avatar stuff.

So, overall, I like Hicks, and while her comics don't excite me in the way the novels do, I'm so traumatized by Gene Yang that I relish getting stories about the gAang with good dialogue and no stupidity like expecting me to believe that the Rough Rhinos pose a threat to post-finale Aang.

#zuko-always-lies #faith erin hicks

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#friends with boys #faith erin hicks #macmillan #young adult #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[oliviartist]

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOUR DOING

it has been brought to my attention that not that many people know about the graphic novel called the nameless city by Faith Erin Hicks

well I’m Telling y’all to go read it it’s really good

please just trust me it’s amazing

#The nameless city #Rat #kaidu #faith erin hicks #It’s amazing I just finished re reading it in a few hours #It’s so good I was hoping that there was more fanart or fanfics but I couldn’t find anything #Not one fanfiction #Very few fan art #All were from pre 2020 #i’m outraged #it’s so good please #Rat and kai have an amazing friendship and the story is amazing I love it so much I legit cry every time #I really wish we got a animated series or a sequel #Maybe we can still get one idk #Gosh I’m really just rambling now #rambles in the tags

[bibliophilecats]

26 October 2023: National Pumpkin Day

#what's the difference between pumpkin and squash #in german we only have one word for both #rainbow rowell #pumpkinheads #faith erin hicks #book photo challenge #fundaybpc #dragonbadgerchallenge

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (October 3rd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth

Kween by Vichet Chum

Up in Flames by Hailey Alcaraz

Beholder by Ryan La Sala

Love in Wonderland by Abiola Bello

And Don't Look Back by Rebecca Barrow

The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge

The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

Plan A by Deb Caletti

The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra

Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

A Twisted Tale Anthology by Various

The Spells We Cast by Jason June

How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch & Beth Revis

Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn & Love Dunn

The Glass Scientists: Volume 1 by S.H. Cotugno & Sabrina Cotugno

New Sequels:

Silence & Shadows (Blood & Moonline #2) by Erin Beaty

Prince of Thorns & Nightmares (Princes #2) by Linsey Miller

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Happy reading!

#Laura E. Weymouth #Vichet Chum #Hailey Alcaraz #Ryan La Sala #Abiola Bello #Rebecca Barrow #Addie Woolridge #Kylie Lee Baker #Pascale Lacelle #Deb Caletti #Kosoko Jackson #Katya de Becerra #Betsy Aldredge #Brandy Colbert #Jason June #Hal Schrieve #Faith Erin Hicks #Sara Raasch #Beth Revis #Autumn Krause #Yasmine Rahman #Candice Iloh #Pintip Dunn #Love Dunn #S.H. Cotugno #Sabrina Cotugno #Erin Beaty #Linsey Miller #new releases #new books

[tachiha3]

I love how people who prefer the yang comics vs people who prefer the faith comics can use whatever political card in their defense.

Yang appreciators : You see, people prefer the faith ones cause it was written by a white person 🙄

Faith appreciators : You see, people prefer the yang ones cause it was written by a man 🙄

#like i personally like the faith ones better too but this is just stupid #atla #avatar the last airbender #faith erin hicks #gene luen yang #atla comics

[godzilla-reads]

My three picks for graphic novels to read in October are:

🎃 Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

🐈‍⬛ The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

🕯 Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky

#godzilla reads #graphic novels #autumn books #Halloween books #tbr #pumpkinheads #faith erin hicks #rainbow rowell #the witch boy #molly knox ostertag #Witchlight #Jessi Zabarsky #booklr #reading #bookworm #bookish #booklover

[bookishfreedom]

ya’ll didn’t think halloween was over, did you?

#pumpkinheads #rainbow rowell #faith erin hicks #graphic novel #comic #pumpkins #halloween #ya #library #library books #book recs #book recommendation #booklr #books #book #read #reading #reader #bookish #mine

[zuko-always-lies]

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#ATLA #avatar the last airbender #gene yang #faith erin hicks #ATLA polls #ATLA poll #avatar comics #Avatar

[geekcavepodcast]

Azula Stars in New “Avatar: The Last Airbender” Graphic Novel

Dark Horse and Avatar Studios has announced a new Avatar: The Last Airbender comic following Azula. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Azula in the Spirit Temple hails from Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman, and Adele Matera. The team is joined by letterer Jimmy Betancourt.

“Azula continues her destabilization campaign against the Fire Nation and her brother, Fire Lord Zuko. But after a failed attack on her latest target, Azula finds herself in a mysterious forest temple inhabited by a solitary monk. What first seems like a place to safely pass the night is quickly revealed to be something horrifyingly different. Azula is forced to confront her past and will finally face her chance at redemption…but will she take it?” (Dark Horse)

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Azula in the Spirit Temple, featuring cover art by Wartman and Matera, goes on sale in bookstores on September 26, 2023, and comic shops on September 27, 2023.

(Image via Dark Horse - Peter Wartman and Adele Matera’s Cover of Avatar: The Last Airbender - Azula in the Spirit Temple)

#azula #azula in the spirit temple #avatar the last airbender #avatar #faith erin hicks #peter wartman #adele matera #jimmy betancourt #avatar studios #dark horse #last airbender #TGCLiz

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#avatar #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #atla #suki atla #tim hedrick #faith erin hicks #dark horse books #dark horse comics #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[oliviartist]

what do I do with a book nobody know about make memes of course

also slight spoilers for the graphic novel called “ the nameless city “ by Faith Erin Hicks

#The nameless city #kaidu #rat #Kai #Faith Erin Hicks #memes #graphic novel #memes of tumblr #please for the love of all things holy read this #It’s so good #I know I’ve been bugging my mutuals about this for weeks but it’s just that amazing