{"id":24743,"date":"2021-09-03T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=24743"},"modified":"2021-09-02T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:32:41","slug":"when-big-bears-invade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2021\/09\/03\/when-big-bears-invade\/","title":{"rendered":"When Big Bears Invade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-250x315.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-250x315.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-150x189.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-768x967.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-1220x1536.jpeg 1220w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-1626x2048.jpeg 1626w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6966A781-3F8D-4A32-9C26-6816652F5FD1-scaled.jpeg 2033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-250x316.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"316\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-250x316.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-150x190.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-768x971.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-1214x1536.jpeg 1214w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-1619x2048.jpeg 1619w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9FEE2BD3-593C-4A0B-A83B-8AE70A2F4BF1-scaled.jpeg 2024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><br \/>\nBy <strong>Alexander Finbow<\/strong><strong> &amp; Nyco Rudolph<\/strong> with <b>Ryan Ferrier<\/b> (Renegade Arts Entertainment)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-987982-549-7 (HB)<\/p>\n<p>You might not know it when he\/she\/they put peanut butter poptarts on your vintage vinyl turntable or hide unwanted vegetables in the laptop, but kids always want to be heroes. They pick up what&#8217;s going in the world &#8211; local or global &#8211; and look for ways to fix it. Just compare the number of septuagenarians to middle schoolers who heard Greta Thunberg&#8217;s call to arms and decided now was the time to act\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a wonderful tinge of all that in this hardback and digital picture book for the young and restless of all ages. Courtesy of writer\/editor\/publisher Alexander Finbow and illustrator Nyco Rudolph, <b>When Big Bears Invade<\/b> offers traditional rhyming couplets for humongous, cathartic painted spreads predicting what will happen when Earth finally has enough of humanity&#8217;s wasteful destructive ways and sets a legion of gigantic ursine avengers to settling scores and fixing the mess in the most effective manner possible\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Witty, pretty and deliciously satisfying, this is a full-on eco-fable for the rightly concerned of every vintage and persuasion: a perfect gift and a welcome diversion when the real world&#8217;s imminent demise drags you down\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a9 2017 <strong>Alexander Finbow &amp; Nyco Rudolph.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexander Finbow &amp; Nyco Rudolph with Ryan Ferrier (Renegade Arts Entertainment) ISBN: 978-1-987982-549-7 (HB) You might not know it when he\/she\/they put peanut butter poptarts on your vintage vinyl turntable or hide unwanted vegetables in the laptop, but kids always want to be heroes. They pick up what&#8217;s going in the world &#8211; local &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2021\/09\/03\/when-big-bears-invade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Big Bears Invade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,102,97,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books-and-comic-strips","category-fantasy","category-kids-all-ages","category-satirepolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-6r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24747,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions\/24747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}