Seven years ago, I was absolutely floored by *My Favorite Thing Is Monsters*, a wildly original, stunningly gorgeous, haunting and brilliant debut graphic novel from Emil Ferris. Every single thing about this book was *amazing*:
https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-a-haunting-diary-of-a-young-girl-as-a-dazzling-graphic-novel/
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Karen is tormented by the adults in her life keeping too much from her - and by their failure to shield her from life's hardest truths.
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But Ferris isn't just a monster-obsessive; she's also a formally trained fine artist, and she infuses her love of great painters into Deeze, Karen's womanizing petty criminal of an older brother.
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Seven years ago, Book One of *My Favorite Thing Is Monsters* absolutely floored me, and I early anticipated Book Two, which was meant to conclude the story, picking up from Book One's cliff-hanger ending.
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But the book was mysteriously delayed, and then delayed again. Months stretched into *years*. Stranger rumors swirled about the second volume's status, compounded by the bizarre misfortunes that had befallen book one.
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https://bleedingcool.com/comics/fantagraphics-sued-emil-ferris-over-my-favorite-thing-is-monsters/
The filings in that case go some ways toward resolve the mystery of Book Two's delay, though the contradictory claims from Ferris and her publisher are harder to sort through than the mysteries at the heart of *Monsters*.
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https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-book-two
*Book Two* picks up from *Book One*'s cliffhanger and then *rockets* forward. Everything brilliant about *One* is even better in *Two*,.
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
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Everything about *Two* is *more*. The background radiation of the Vietnam War in *One* takes center stage with Deeze's machinations to beat the draft, and Deeze and Karen being ensnared in the Chicago Police Riots of '68.
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There's a lot of people on my Christmas list who'll be getting both volumes of *Monsters* this year - and that number will only go up if Fantagraphics does some kind of slipcased two-volume set.
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https://twitter.com/likaluca/status/1648364225855733769
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