Wander: A Comic by Kevin Church & Grace Allison

After storming out of her crappy coffee shop job, perpetual NYU grad student Olive Hopkins decides to throw a massive pity party for herself using the last of her meager savings. She discovers the next morning that not only does she have a massive hangover: she’s somehow been transported into The Ninth Kingdom, a fantasy realm straight out of that section of the Barnes and Noble she always avoided. How’d she get here? How’s she going to get home? Most of all: where can she get a good slice and a pack of Camel Lights? She’s dying here.“The team of creators spin such a yarn that the $2 price is almost maddening.” The Beat“…provides a refreshing change from your run of the mill tights and fights books.” MTV Geek “Church’s script is crisp and full of personality, and Allison’s Art is stylized to the book in a way that’s perfect.”ComicBook.com“The agreeable Wander is a natural expansion on the webcomics Church has been producing over the last several years.”Paste MagazineOlive is exactly the protagonist that a high fantasy book needs to be interesting in 2012. Comics Riot Wander: Olive Hopkins and The Ninth Kingdom, by Kevin Church and Grace Allison, uses humor and wit to create a tone that invests the audience in the story without them realizing they’re being entertained by a story about elven obsessions and magic wand Freakin’ Awesome Network Wander: Olive Hopkins and the Ninth Kingdom is my jam. Nerdcenearies

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