{"id":20186,"date":"2019-06-01T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=20186"},"modified":"2019-05-29T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:27:07","slug":"king-coo-the-curse-of-the-mummys-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2019\/06\/01\/king-coo-the-curse-of-the-mummys-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"King Coo: The Curse of the Mummy’s Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Adam Stower<\/strong> (David Fickling Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-78845-052-2 (PB)<\/p>\n

The old demarcations – whether in format or content – between comics and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proper books\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are all but gone these days and the results are, quite frankly, long overdue and simply intoxicating\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Since the pre-print era of illustrated manuscripts, books have always possessed the capacity (budgets permitting) to include images in the text. As the book trade progressed, pictures were generally phased out of cheaper, mass-market editions because they required costly and time-consuming extra effort by skilled technicians. Most artists and illustrators wanted payment for their efforts too, so books with pictures were regarded as extra special, most often crafted for children, students or aficionados of textbooks\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Comics strips grew out of cartoon images, beginning as static illustrations accompanied by blocks of printed text before gradually developing into pictorial sequences with narration, dialogue and sound effects incorporated into the actual design.<\/p>\n

These days print processes are speedy and efficient, and many creative bright sparks have realised that they can combine all these tangential disciplines into a potent synthesis.<\/p>\n

Gosh, wasn’t that lecture dull?<\/p>\n

What I’m saying is that these days, the immediacy of comics, the enchantment of illustrated images, the power of well-designed infographics and the mesmeric tone and mood of well-written prose can all be employed simultaneously to create tales of overwhelming entertainment.<\/p>\n

A perfect example of this is artist Adam Stower’s (Bottom’s Up!<\/strong>, Spymice<\/strong>, The Dragons of Wayward<\/strong> Green<\/strong>, The Secret Country<\/strong>) second adventure of Ben Pole<\/em> and his fabulous companion King Coo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When Ben was being pitilessly persecuted by bullies at school, one desperate attempt to escape took him to a vast and fantastic forest that lay somehow hidden at the bottom of a hole in a tatty alleyway between skyscrapers in the city. Here he met capable wild-child King Coo: a spear-carrying, crown-wearing girl who builds incredible, impossible inventions and lives in a tree house with her wombat chum Herbert<\/em>. Most of the time, Coo is covered from her nostrils to her sturdy bare feet in a luxuriant, all-encompassing beard.<\/p>\n

She soon helped him sort out his bullying problem once and for all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Now, as summer holidays end, Ben is heading back to school, just as his mum starts her new job as a security guard at the City Museum. As if having a massive new exhibition featuring the priceless golden treasures of mummified medicine-man Mighty Ozozo<\/em> of the Blue-Foots Tribe isn’t enough to worry about, many other museums and galleries have recently been plundered by the sinister and mysterious Midnight Mob<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Sadly for Ben, his homebody dad’s culinary escapades haven’t gotten any better either\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Ben’s desire to continue having life-&-limb threatening adventures with Coo and her bizarre gizmos is slightly lessened after his class is introduced to substitute teacher Professor Pickering<\/em> and his attendant transfer students: the oddly fascinating pupils of the Lilly Lavender Private Academy for Exceptional Girls<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

And thus unfolds a thrill-stuffed, action-packed romp involving vile villains, daring robberies, a hostage situation, dastardly deception and the terrifying prospect of supernatural revenge from beyond the grave. Happily, King Coo has a plan\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but then again, she always has a plan, and blueprints and prototypes and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Fast-paced, astoundingly inventive and laugh-out-loud hilarious, this brilliant kids’ caper merges compact effective prose with beguiling monochrome pictures, comic strips, breathtaking double-page spreads, explanatory diagrams, informative info-pages, mini-posters and all the visual gimmicks that give comics their overpowering immediacy.<\/p>\n

This is a book kids of all ages will adore, so why not grant yourself and your entourage a personal audience with King Coo at your earliest convenience?
\nText and illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 Adam Stower 2019. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

King Coo: The Curse of the Mummy’s Gold <\/strong>will be released on 6th<\/sup> June 2019 and is available for pre-order now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Stower (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-78845-052-2 (PB) The old demarcations – whether in format or content – between comics and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proper books\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are all but gone these days and the results are, quite frankly, long overdue and simply intoxicating\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Since the pre-print era of illustrated manuscripts, books have always possessed the capacity (budgets … <\/p>\n

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