Wheetago War: Roth

by Richard Van Camp, Christopher Shy (illustrator)

Unless there is snow on the ground, never speak their name aloud.

The more they eat the hungrier they become, and they are starving.

They were meant to stay undisturbed, their dismembered limbs scattered, frozen under the permafrost, but as is always the way, the greed of industry has unburied them once more. Now, the most feared, the Wheetago, have returned, using their powers to call back the Na acho, cannibalistic giants once banished by Dene deities.

The revered hero known as the Child Finder who is fighting to cling to his humanity after a Wheetago attack, a mother and her young son, and a desperate band of convicts, form an uneasy alliance to survive the Wheetago horrors now awakened.

ROTH, from award-winning, bestselling Tlicho Dene author Richard Van Camp, and visionary illustrator Christopher Shy is the first graphic novel in the Wheetago War series.

Genres: Horror

Kindle Edition

Published October 18, 2024

About the author

A Dogrib (Tlicho) Dene from Fort Smith, NWT, Richard Van Camp is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author. He is the author of the novel, The Lesser Blessed, a collection of short stories, Angel Wing Splash Pattern, and two children’s books with Cree artist, George Littlechild. His new baby book: Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns is the official selection of the Books for BC Babies program and is being given to every newborn baby in British Columbia in 2008. His new novel, Blessing Wendy, will be released in the fall of 2009 through Orca Book Publishers. Richard was awarded Storyteller of the Year for both Canada and the US by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. You can visit Richard at his website: www.richardvancamp.org.

Reviews

[Estibaliz · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

While I appreciate the fact this graphic novel is inspired in Native myths and legends, and the art in it was surely top notch, I can't really say I enjoyed it very much, till the point I'm not planning to read the next volume.

It was simply not my cup of tea, with a minimalistic dialogue that, somehow, didn't seem to mesh with the artsy graphics, a bit too static for my liking themselves. So, as I said, a great effort, but a graphic novel that doesn't work for me as such (I think of it more like an illustrated novel, to be honest).

[Wes Thorpe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good story, unbelievably gorgeous art.

[Rhia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really gorgeous. Completely bleak.

[Calvin Daniels · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lavish but dark art

Lore galore

different but excellent