Congrats on almost making it through another week, nerd friends! I know that weekday stress can make you want to beat something up, so I’ve got some Riot Rec suggestions that will hopefully provide a little catharsis.
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Bookish Goods
Comic Book Coaster Set by TheWoodenPug
What a fun way to keep your tables stain-free! How noble of our heroes to protect your furniture. $25
New Releases
Grace Rosa Volume One by Himuro
Grace Rosa owes everything to her adoptive father. Not only did he take her in, he also trained her to be the best assassin in the business — and now he is missing. Fortunately for Grace Rosa, and unfortunately for the people who took her father, she has all of the training and tools she needs to find him and exact vengeance!
Evil Eyes Sea by Özge Samanci
Ece and Meltem are university students in Turkey in the mid-1990s, a time of looming (and frightening) political upheaval. They go in search of sunken treasure in hopes of solving their financial problems, but instead, they find themselves entangled in a dangerous web of everything going wrong with their country.
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Riot Recommendations
Today’s Riot Rec theme is: boxing! Get into the ring — or at least into your favorite chair — with these sweet comics about the sweet science.
Last on His Feet by Adrian Matejka and Youssef Daoudi
The year is 1910, and Jack Johnson, a boxer famous for both his race and his extravagant lifestyle, is about to defeat Jim Jeffries, a beloved white boxer, in the ring. This fight, considered among the most important in boxing history, is the subject of this graphic novel, illustrated in black, white, and, of course, red.
Creed by LaToya Morgan, Jai Jamison, and Wilton Santos
Amara Creed has a lot to live up to. Her father and grandfather were legendary boxers. Now it’s her turn to step up and make her mark, but how can she do that when she so easily outmatches everyone in the ring? Amara’s solution is to enter the world of underground boxing — a world she might not be as prepared for as she thinks she is.
Now get out there and punch Thursday in the face!
~Eileen