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Romantic hilarity ensues when young Anituk's miserable life is rudely interrupted by the arrival of Abalu, a tall handsome stranger who delights in encroaching.
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144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 21, 2010
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Tina Anderson
11 books21 followersTina Anderson, best known for her work as a gay comics writer during the mid-2000s English-language manga boom, when she wrote gay comics and women’s ‘yaoi,’ or Boys’ Love for publishers DramaQueen, Class Comics, Yaoi Press, and Iris Print, has transitioned her creative energy towards serial fiction. Her current work is available for free at Bear House Serials, with some syndicated on multiple web-novel platforms.
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September 6, 2010
Anituk the is merrily going about his business of living with his mum, dad and older brother, when a stranger arrives at his family camp. There is something a little mysterious about the newcomer and he has some mighty odd quirks. Like penguin punting. heh.
I guess I was expecting a certain amount of angst and sad bits, this was written by Tina Anderson after all. But while there were definitely some moody longing looks and sighs, most of the book was light hearted, humorous and damn cute.
I liked Abalu, he’s so ernest and totally gone on Anituk, who doesn’t have a clue. The interactions between the two are captured beautifully by Amelie Belcher. She had me sniggering away at poor Anituk’s misfortunes and frustration at Abalu’s invasion of his personal space. Tina Anderson’s writing takes you from plenty of smoochy romantic stuff, to angsty OMG she can’t leave me hanging! I think the end was particularly well done with regards the timing and depiction of the characters.
My favorite panels are where you first get a glimpse of Abalu, who’s all windswept and interesting in the snow. There was also a page where Abituk is sleeping, so Abalu has a go at waking him up by mooching around under the blankets. Did I say cute already?
The mixture of angst and humor made for seriously cool reading and if this looks like your bag, then you can check it out via the Loud Snow website, buy it on Kindle or the print edition AND there is a version at eManga. Cool!
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I guess I was expecting a certain amount of angst and sad bits, this was written by Tina Anderson after all. But while there were definitely some moody longing looks and sighs, most of the book was light hearted, humorous and damn cute.
I liked Abalu, he’s so ernest and totally gone on Anituk, who doesn’t have a clue. The interactions between the two are captured beautifully by Amelie Belcher. She had me sniggering away at poor Anituk’s misfortunes and frustration at Abalu’s invasion of his personal space. Tina Anderson’s writing takes you from plenty of smoochy romantic stuff, to angsty OMG she can’t leave me hanging! I think the end was particularly well done with regards the timing and depiction of the characters.
My favorite panels are where you first get a glimpse of Abalu, who’s all windswept and interesting in the snow. There was also a page where Abituk is sleeping, so Abalu has a go at waking him up by mooching around under the blankets. Did I say cute already?
The mixture of angst and humor made for seriously cool reading and if this looks like your bag, then you can check it out via the Loud Snow website, buy it on Kindle or the print edition AND there is a version at eManga. Cool!
http://sharrow.wordpress.com/2010/09/...
October 17, 2010
Loud Snow ~ Tina Anderson (writer) & Amelie Belcher (artist)
Self-Published & Digital ~ 140 Pages
Quick Synopsis:
“Romantic ice-age hilarity ensues as young whaler Anituk's miserable life with doting parents and an oversexed wife-hunting brother is rudely interrupted by the arrival of Abalu, a tall handsome stranger who delights in encroaching upon Anituk's angst.”
Plot:
Wow… what an original plot! Loud Snow takes place on the Eastern coast of North America in 17,000 B.C., better know as the Ice Age. The story focuses on one family in general with a mother, father and two brothers, Anituk and his older brother Nifu. The family lives farther north than other tribes and women are scarce. Nifu has now reached the age where he must look for a wife and our young Anituk doesn’t understand why he wants to replace their mother. It becomes pretty clear our little Anituk isn’t really into chicks.
Along comes stranger Abalu who’s tall with flowing long hair and an adorable smile. It’s not long before he takes a liking to Anituk and this is where ‘hilarity ensues’. I can’t tell you how many times I laughed out loud while reading this, especially when Abalu introduces himself to Anituk’s nether regions or when he keeps drop kicking the penguins. Tina’s sense of humor is nicely paired with Amelie’s facial expressions and the two together make for a funny read. Another thing I liked about this plot is the twist at the end. It’s not something you see coming and the initial reaction is WTF?!?!, but just hold your horses and don’t go off the deep end like I nearly did. That’s all I’ll say.
Loud Snow is quite a departure from Tina’s usual fare, which she admits in her own story notes within. I was quite surprised reading it yet at the same time I can see her throughout the story. When I got to the end I literally said (in my mind) “Awww!”. I’m not usually one for cute and adorable stories but dammit, I liked this one.
Character Development:
Anituk is approximately 16-years-old and full of angst. He’s got every excuse in the book to not want to kill the animals they hunt but the reality is, he’s just a softy. This leads to a lot of tension between he and his older brother but I think it’s just more Anituk being a moody teenager trying to find his place in the family. It’s clear he doesn’t really get he’s gay but he does know he’s not into girls. I think it takes meeting Abalu for him to start figuring out what the thoughts and feelings he has really mean.
Abalu is a bit of a mystery to us. He shows up in the story asking for a place to stay until his family comes to get him. He is welcomed in but Nifu has doubts about the handsome stranger. Abalu seems to always be smiling and has a very gentle nature. He’s a good balance to angsty Anituk and it isn’t long before Anituk starts to realize maybe Abalu isn’t as annoying as he thinks.
Illustrations:
From what I know, this is Amelie’s first fully illustrated book and she does a pretty good job considering. Each character is different from the other and their expressions really convey their individual personalities. I think she does a great job expressing what Tina was looking for and writing about. The illustrations themselves are good and the anatomy is done well overall.
If I have a beef about the illustrations, and I do, it would be with the first high-action scene involving a shark attack (pages 2 and 3 mostly). It was very confusing my first read through and I even went back to read through a second time. It took my third read to really figure out what was going on and honestly, I put it down after the second because it pulled me out of the story. I was just too confused to want to read any further. Had I known how much I would like the story, I would have just continued on but I didn’t want to chance this was going to be the entire way through so I stopped. Luckily a reviewer friend had already read it and told me it was worth continuing through so now I’m telling you. Once you get past the 3rd or 4th page, you’ll see it clears up.
Sexual Content:
There’s only one sex scene in Loud Snow and it isn’t really explicit as far as showing the goods but honestly, I still liked it. There was something about it that seemed a bit more like how sex between these two would really happen. There were no self-lubing ukes screaming for more even though it’s their first time or even a set seme/uke role. It was just… real. Even with all it’s sweet moments it’s still sexy.
Readability:
As far as speech bubbles go, I didn’t really have a problem. I felt the story was very readable, although it took a few pages of reading before I got used to the use of words instead of sound effects to describe what was happening. I also felt the use of words to describe facial expressions or actions wasn’t really necessary as these are things I can see for myself.
Overall:
Loud Snow is a sweet story with an original plot that will make you laugh throughout. The plot twist will break your heart, but the story’s ending will make it burst.
Plot: A
Character Development: A-
Illustrations: A-
Sexual Content: B+
Readability: A-
Overall Grade: A-
Buy Now!
http://loudsnow.com
Self-Published & Digital ~ 140 Pages
Quick Synopsis:
“Romantic ice-age hilarity ensues as young whaler Anituk's miserable life with doting parents and an oversexed wife-hunting brother is rudely interrupted by the arrival of Abalu, a tall handsome stranger who delights in encroaching upon Anituk's angst.”
Plot:
Wow… what an original plot! Loud Snow takes place on the Eastern coast of North America in 17,000 B.C., better know as the Ice Age. The story focuses on one family in general with a mother, father and two brothers, Anituk and his older brother Nifu. The family lives farther north than other tribes and women are scarce. Nifu has now reached the age where he must look for a wife and our young Anituk doesn’t understand why he wants to replace their mother. It becomes pretty clear our little Anituk isn’t really into chicks.
Along comes stranger Abalu who’s tall with flowing long hair and an adorable smile. It’s not long before he takes a liking to Anituk and this is where ‘hilarity ensues’. I can’t tell you how many times I laughed out loud while reading this, especially when Abalu introduces himself to Anituk’s nether regions or when he keeps drop kicking the penguins. Tina’s sense of humor is nicely paired with Amelie’s facial expressions and the two together make for a funny read. Another thing I liked about this plot is the twist at the end. It’s not something you see coming and the initial reaction is WTF?!?!, but just hold your horses and don’t go off the deep end like I nearly did. That’s all I’ll say.
Loud Snow is quite a departure from Tina’s usual fare, which she admits in her own story notes within. I was quite surprised reading it yet at the same time I can see her throughout the story. When I got to the end I literally said (in my mind) “Awww!”. I’m not usually one for cute and adorable stories but dammit, I liked this one.
Character Development:
Anituk is approximately 16-years-old and full of angst. He’s got every excuse in the book to not want to kill the animals they hunt but the reality is, he’s just a softy. This leads to a lot of tension between he and his older brother but I think it’s just more Anituk being a moody teenager trying to find his place in the family. It’s clear he doesn’t really get he’s gay but he does know he’s not into girls. I think it takes meeting Abalu for him to start figuring out what the thoughts and feelings he has really mean.
Abalu is a bit of a mystery to us. He shows up in the story asking for a place to stay until his family comes to get him. He is welcomed in but Nifu has doubts about the handsome stranger. Abalu seems to always be smiling and has a very gentle nature. He’s a good balance to angsty Anituk and it isn’t long before Anituk starts to realize maybe Abalu isn’t as annoying as he thinks.
Illustrations:
From what I know, this is Amelie’s first fully illustrated book and she does a pretty good job considering. Each character is different from the other and their expressions really convey their individual personalities. I think she does a great job expressing what Tina was looking for and writing about. The illustrations themselves are good and the anatomy is done well overall.
If I have a beef about the illustrations, and I do, it would be with the first high-action scene involving a shark attack (pages 2 and 3 mostly). It was very confusing my first read through and I even went back to read through a second time. It took my third read to really figure out what was going on and honestly, I put it down after the second because it pulled me out of the story. I was just too confused to want to read any further. Had I known how much I would like the story, I would have just continued on but I didn’t want to chance this was going to be the entire way through so I stopped. Luckily a reviewer friend had already read it and told me it was worth continuing through so now I’m telling you. Once you get past the 3rd or 4th page, you’ll see it clears up.
Sexual Content:
There’s only one sex scene in Loud Snow and it isn’t really explicit as far as showing the goods but honestly, I still liked it. There was something about it that seemed a bit more like how sex between these two would really happen. There were no self-lubing ukes screaming for more even though it’s their first time or even a set seme/uke role. It was just… real. Even with all it’s sweet moments it’s still sexy.
Readability:
As far as speech bubbles go, I didn’t really have a problem. I felt the story was very readable, although it took a few pages of reading before I got used to the use of words instead of sound effects to describe what was happening. I also felt the use of words to describe facial expressions or actions wasn’t really necessary as these are things I can see for myself.
Overall:
Loud Snow is a sweet story with an original plot that will make you laugh throughout. The plot twist will break your heart, but the story’s ending will make it burst.
Plot: A
Character Development: A-
Illustrations: A-
Sexual Content: B+
Readability: A-
Overall Grade: A-
Buy Now!
http://loudsnow.com
December 11, 2011
Why I bought it?
It's price... I saw it on amazon.it and it's so cheap I couldn't resist. Just 3 Euro (here in Milan it's like 3 cups of coffee).
The plot
Anituk is a bored teenager in the ice age. Oh yes, you read it right, Ice age. There is also an explanation of the writer (before the epilogue) talking about how she had the idea of a story in such strange setting (BTW too much politicized in my view, but well, it's the writer story, and if Tina Anderson want to use a space to show her politic view it's her right... so who am I to say something against it?).
Anyway, I was saying, it's in the ice age. Humans sort of live in a very precarious way (yeah, I'm saying the obvious here, I know :D ). Their lives are search food, find other family nucleus to share food and also have marriage arrangements, look the animals around, nothing very exciting... so yeah, Anituk is VERY bored.
One day an stranger, Abalu, will appear and to shake Anituk simplistic world. Anituk don't know he don't want to marry a woman, Anituk don't know he want another man... Abalu know... he want Anituk and he is very clear about it. How can Anituk accept another man wanting him?
But an Yaoi? Or just a graphic novel?
Well, I risk look like an racist but my first impression was it's a graphic novel, not an Yaoi. I'm used to Asiac artists when I'm talking about yaoi or shonen-ai.
I'm not an USA citizen, so many times all the discussion about the right word, yaoi/boylove etc is not something I understand.
Well, I don't like to call all graphic novels, just because it's an MM, Yaoi. But I'm placing it in my yaoi shelf... as also in my graphic novel shelf, so it's as I saw it. A good gay graphic novel, and well, maybe you could call it also yaoi, depends of the part of the world you live.
The art work
Don't expect the complexity of a
art work, neither the beauty of
but it's was well done. I like the draw, and it's not something I never saw before (there are many online fanfiction works that use the same technical), but it's good, Amelie Belcher did a great work.
For what I pay, certainly it's worth my money. Just one problem, is the dialogs, sometimes too small. Trying to zoom my kindle file didn't help because the quality of the scan didn't allow me to have a perfect visualization of the letters.
It's a 5 stars? Why?
It's not expensive
I had a great time reading it
The single love scene was very well done, romantic and so cute.
All characters are interesting.
I laugh a LOT with Abalu playing with penguins all the time
The epilogue made me smile (even if I was still pissoff after the interlude, so damn politicized)
It's good... I can't denied it. I like it, and in my modest opinion it's a 5 stars graphic novel
5 stars
It's price... I saw it on amazon.it and it's so cheap I couldn't resist. Just 3 Euro (here in Milan it's like 3 cups of coffee).
The plot
Anituk is a bored teenager in the ice age. Oh yes, you read it right, Ice age. There is also an explanation of the writer (before the epilogue) talking about how she had the idea of a story in such strange setting (BTW too much politicized in my view, but well, it's the writer story, and if Tina Anderson want to use a space to show her politic view it's her right... so who am I to say something against it?).
Anyway, I was saying, it's in the ice age. Humans sort of live in a very precarious way (yeah, I'm saying the obvious here, I know :D ). Their lives are search food, find other family nucleus to share food and also have marriage arrangements, look the animals around, nothing very exciting... so yeah, Anituk is VERY bored.
One day an stranger, Abalu, will appear and to shake Anituk simplistic world. Anituk don't know he don't want to marry a woman, Anituk don't know he want another man... Abalu know... he want Anituk and he is very clear about it. How can Anituk accept another man wanting him?
But an Yaoi? Or just a graphic novel?
Well, I risk look like an racist but my first impression was it's a graphic novel, not an Yaoi. I'm used to Asiac artists when I'm talking about yaoi or shonen-ai.
I'm not an USA citizen, so many times all the discussion about the right word, yaoi/boylove etc is not something I understand.
Well, I don't like to call all graphic novels, just because it's an MM, Yaoi. But I'm placing it in my yaoi shelf... as also in my graphic novel shelf, so it's as I saw it. A good gay graphic novel, and well, maybe you could call it also yaoi, depends of the part of the world you live.
The art work
Don't expect the complexity of a
art work, neither the beauty of
but it's was well done. I like the draw, and it's not something I never saw before (there are many online fanfiction works that use the same technical), but it's good, Amelie Belcher did a great work.For what I pay, certainly it's worth my money. Just one problem, is the dialogs, sometimes too small. Trying to zoom my kindle file didn't help because the quality of the scan didn't allow me to have a perfect visualization of the letters.
It's a 5 stars? Why?
It's not expensive
I had a great time reading it
The single love scene was very well done, romantic and so cute.
All characters are interesting.
I laugh a LOT with Abalu playing with penguins all the time
The epilogue made me smile (even if I was still pissoff after the interlude, so damn politicized)
It's good... I can't denied it. I like it, and in my modest opinion it's a 5 stars graphic novel
5 stars
September 21, 2010
Beautiful, flowing artwork, but drawn in very large scenes. Not much detail on some pages, and almost too much on others.
Not your basic yaoi manga; there is fondness/infatuation, silliness, seriousness, and a lot of life lessons that aren't fully learned or comprehended until the very end.
Worth reading, and definitely worth looking into more by this great collab.
Not your basic yaoi manga; there is fondness/infatuation, silliness, seriousness, and a lot of life lessons that aren't fully learned or comprehended until the very end.
Worth reading, and definitely worth looking into more by this great collab.
May 29, 2011
I was a little hesitant to buy this one and I'm glad I got over that. I actually read the first few pages weeks ago and finally finished today. Once Abalu shows up it was impossible to put down. It has everything I like in a story. Made me laugh and cry, so keep that Kleenex box close.
The art feels a little rough, but that just added to the presentation.
The art feels a little rough, but that just added to the presentation.
August 9, 2010
Gorgeous artwork combined with excellent storytelling. I was initially drawn to this book (no pun intended) because I was a fan of Amelie Belcher's artwork. Now I am also a fan of Tina Anderson's writing! They are a perfect team and I hope they continue their collaboration.
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