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Monsters 101: Speak of the Devil
Way back in Book Three, Mort left a horrible mess behind in the devil world of Dharokalee... and we mean horrible! Kymbir, the princess of Tcharen Koh has unleashed her considerable magick might upon her people because of the heartbreak the boy sorcerer caused. The remaining royal family has recruited Mort to save them, but what can he possibly do to control a woman who destroyed a ten million year old city of magicians because she was mad at him?
154 pages, Paperback
First published October 29, 2013
About the author
Muhammad Rasheed
26 books17 followersM. Rasheed is a cartoonist, socio-political analyst and ‘artivist’ dedicating his editorial graphics work to the uplift of the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS - https://ados101.com) political unification movement.
His research interests include the anti-racism and pro-Reparations struggles of the Black American former slave class, its ties to antitrust law and the rise of the Second Gilded Age, with its lineage-based, systemic racism effects.
M. Rasheed’s recent artivism effort is Weapon of the People: DECODED, a Gag-A-Day political cartoon venture launched on 09 Apr 2018. In addition to the backlist of previous works, illustrated short essay social observations and genre sequential art tales, his website features philosophical dialogues with ideological opponents from which the artist is inspired to create his cartoons.
M. Rasheed’s other projects include: “Monsters 101: The Adventures of Pugroff & Mort (books 1-10)” and “Tales of Sinanju: The Destroyer (based on characters created by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir – books 1-10).”
His research interests include the anti-racism and pro-Reparations struggles of the Black American former slave class, its ties to antitrust law and the rise of the Second Gilded Age, with its lineage-based, systemic racism effects.
M. Rasheed’s recent artivism effort is Weapon of the People: DECODED, a Gag-A-Day political cartoon venture launched on 09 Apr 2018. In addition to the backlist of previous works, illustrated short essay social observations and genre sequential art tales, his website features philosophical dialogues with ideological opponents from which the artist is inspired to create his cartoons.
M. Rasheed’s other projects include: “Monsters 101: The Adventures of Pugroff & Mort (books 1-10)” and “Tales of Sinanju: The Destroyer (based on characters created by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir – books 1-10).”
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April 20, 2016Review from Richard Caldwell, Self-Publish! Magazine
After the Earth-shaking drama of the last installment of Rasheed’s graphic novel series, he took a slight rebreather to pursue some side projects for others (notably contributing quite a bit to the Naive Project’s 100+ page, non-profit book to raise funds for the Brain Aneurism Foundation), but now the writer/artist par excellence is unleashing back-to-back chapters of the soon to wrap title. Every issue has been approximately 150 pages of all-new and highly original content, entirely written and illustrated and lettered and packaged and published by Rasheed all by his lonesome. When Book Ten hits later in the year, the genuinely epic Monsters 101 saga will be finished, clocking in at a 1500 page masterpiece in modern fantasy. What this Joe Kubert School alum has accomplished/is accomplishing is profound in every sense of the term.
Book Nine has a return to Tcharen Koh, the dimension of devils, as Mort’s earlier rejection of the resident princess has apparently resulted in a family feud destroying a ten-million year old city. Later, Mort is recruited by a hermetic order called the African Architects, who inadvertently provide commentary on the entirely false and laughable theology of the Crowley/LaVey crowd. There is also a greatly fun sequence here involving elementals where Rasheed gets to flex his artistic muscles, and like the rest of the book one can flip through and presume by the brushy, animated art style that the content is for younger readers. It really is not, at least none below the more precociously bright mid-teen comic book enthusiasts. But as appealing as the art is, I really think maybe too much of the story may completely go over the heads of even adult audiences, as a lot of the story is very suggestive of intrinsic theological study. His forms have become increasingly more defined though, with his already keen visual storytelling sense showing even more detail in its imagination. Mort is such a neat character especially, believably wise beyond his years and having some very thought-provoking lines of dialogue, but his being one of the few actual humans in the story really serves as a visual anchor for the more fantastic bits, like a measuring post to give perspective to the strangeness and surreality of the narrative, fun as they all nonetheless are. Someone such as Neil Gaiman may readily romanticize a Western take on older mythology, but Rasheed scientifically finds the bridging points between mythology and theology, while being every bit as entertaining in the presentation. But the plotting is so much fun, with clandestine magic-users and superheroes and angels and demons and faerie and…omni-dimensional entities all crossing adventuresome paths. This is really rich fare, so astonishingly full of depth and intrigue, but still surprisingly light-hearted and entirely readable. These installments, and the series they belong too, are high on the list of the most original comics material I have EVER encountered. Rasheed is just such a phenomenally gifted and talented artist and teller of incredibly interesting tales.
After the Earth-shaking drama of the last installment of Rasheed’s graphic novel series, he took a slight rebreather to pursue some side projects for others (notably contributing quite a bit to the Naive Project’s 100+ page, non-profit book to raise funds for the Brain Aneurism Foundation), but now the writer/artist par excellence is unleashing back-to-back chapters of the soon to wrap title. Every issue has been approximately 150 pages of all-new and highly original content, entirely written and illustrated and lettered and packaged and published by Rasheed all by his lonesome. When Book Ten hits later in the year, the genuinely epic Monsters 101 saga will be finished, clocking in at a 1500 page masterpiece in modern fantasy. What this Joe Kubert School alum has accomplished/is accomplishing is profound in every sense of the term.
Book Nine has a return to Tcharen Koh, the dimension of devils, as Mort’s earlier rejection of the resident princess has apparently resulted in a family feud destroying a ten-million year old city. Later, Mort is recruited by a hermetic order called the African Architects, who inadvertently provide commentary on the entirely false and laughable theology of the Crowley/LaVey crowd. There is also a greatly fun sequence here involving elementals where Rasheed gets to flex his artistic muscles, and like the rest of the book one can flip through and presume by the brushy, animated art style that the content is for younger readers. It really is not, at least none below the more precociously bright mid-teen comic book enthusiasts. But as appealing as the art is, I really think maybe too much of the story may completely go over the heads of even adult audiences, as a lot of the story is very suggestive of intrinsic theological study. His forms have become increasingly more defined though, with his already keen visual storytelling sense showing even more detail in its imagination. Mort is such a neat character especially, believably wise beyond his years and having some very thought-provoking lines of dialogue, but his being one of the few actual humans in the story really serves as a visual anchor for the more fantastic bits, like a measuring post to give perspective to the strangeness and surreality of the narrative, fun as they all nonetheless are. Someone such as Neil Gaiman may readily romanticize a Western take on older mythology, but Rasheed scientifically finds the bridging points between mythology and theology, while being every bit as entertaining in the presentation. But the plotting is so much fun, with clandestine magic-users and superheroes and angels and demons and faerie and…omni-dimensional entities all crossing adventuresome paths. This is really rich fare, so astonishingly full of depth and intrigue, but still surprisingly light-hearted and entirely readable. These installments, and the series they belong too, are high on the list of the most original comics material I have EVER encountered. Rasheed is just such a phenomenally gifted and talented artist and teller of incredibly interesting tales.
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