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I’ve read Ru Xu’s webcomic “Saints for Rent” for quite a few years now so I was super happy to find out about “NewsPrints” and “EndGames” The colors, setting, and characters designs are gorgeous. I admire Ru Xu’s work a lot as a fellow comic artist. It’s so beautiful in fact that on various occasions I found myself just staring at a page for after having read it.

I loved “NewsPrints”, but I think the sequel was a bit hard to follow at times in terms of storyline. I kept having to go back and double check names and places. Also, I felt that the ending was a bit rushed.
On another note, there were a lot of new characters, which kinda led to less “screentime” for some of the already established characters (I wanted to see more of Crow...). This was both good and bad though, because I appreciated the conversations and topics that these new characters brought with them.

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3.0

The sequel that picks up directly after "NewsPrints" with the same vibrant and flowing art but a much more muddled story.

The focus in the first novel is the relationship between Blue and Crow, which managed to clearly articulate how war consumes even children with Crow as a literal weapon of mass destruction. It allowed time for Blue to become our focusing point in this mashup of 1940's and fairytales. However, their relationship and Blue herself takes a backseat to the overarching plot of the war and the imperialist politics behind it. A fair ending to the journey but not a stand alone work, as all the heavy lifting and character sketching was really laid out in the first graphic novel.