![]() Tabby’s guide to Rema is Phillip, leading a complicated life where he’s a rare individual naturally good with a forbidden form of magic, yet entrusted with a responsibility and not wanting to associate with rebels using magic. Kibuishi has around 250 pages to play with, but the sheer amount of world building included in that is impressive, yet never through neglecting the character-based plot. She also sees ghosts, one of which eventually pulls her through a doorway into Rema, a very different world where magic is commonplace. ![]() To instil a sense of creepiness, crows with five eyes have developed there. Tabby is sympathetic from the start, in her mid-teens, still grieving a father who died in mysterious circumstances several years earlier, and regularly sneaking into the quarantined area where that occurred. She’s on stage throughout Realm of the Blue Mist, and if she doesn’t see something, neither do readers. ![]() Tabby Simon is the focus, the curious eyes through whose experiences a new world and its complications are introduced. It’s apparent from both plot and art that Amy Kim Kibuishi has spent considerable time on development, as there’s a convincing background where much of what’s revealed obviously still has a part to play in further volumes. ![]() As more and more young adult graphic novels are released, fantasy is an increasingly common genre, meaning any new entry really has to stand out. ![]()
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