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Stig & Tilde #3
Stig & Tilde: The Loser Squad: Stig & Tilde 3
Après maintes aventures, Stig et Tilde, blessés, épuisés, arrivent enfin sur l'île promise. Douches chaudes et barbecue, ici, c'est le paradis ! Sauf que deux clans s'affrontent sur l'île, et qu'un chef autoproclamé sème la zizanie. On dirait qu'il y a quelque chose de pourri au paradis...
64 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2019
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June 25, 2020
A lesser Lord of the Flies type story with poor, rudimentary art. This starts off right where the last volume left off expecting that you know what occurred in the previous volume. It was confusing for any new reader. The basic story is that some bullies have taken over a summer camp and banished the "loser" kids. Eventually the banished kids fight back. It was all very basic and blase.
Received a review copy from Nobrow and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.
Received a review copy from Nobrow and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.
March 18, 2020
Scattershot
The blurbs for this reference "Lumberjanes", but it struck me as mostly "Lord of the Flies" meets some sort of high school teen bully fantasy.
This is the third volume of the Stig & Tilde series. We start this one off with Stig and Tilde having arrived at a new island with a pretty sweet, high end summer resort camp. In the first few pages Tilde is "hit on" by some creepy kid Lothario, who turns out to be a bully who has taken over the camp and has exiled the "losers" to the other side of the island. Tilde quite wisely knees the creep in the groin, and she and Stig run off to join said losers. We then get an odd sort of "Swallows and Amazons" vibe that never quite resolves into a consistent tone.
This isn't light hearted, but it isn't terribly dramatic either. Sometimes it feels like a summer camp dramedy, with girl/boy crushes and conflicts and so on, and sometimes it's more like a tale of survival and resistance, even though everyone wanders back and forth between the camps, there's no real violence, and it's never clear why anyone puts up with the creepy kid, who is a mouthy nobody with just one goon sidekick.
I guess you could try to draw out some messages about authority, and collaboration, and independence, and herd mentality, and prejudice and oppression, and all that sort of thing, but the whole story struck me as too unmoored and incongruously summer campy to really support any of that. We also get some magical realism and insta-love, which further keeps everything off the tracks.
At bottom, I suspect Stig and Tilde could be good fun and boon companions in a better structured, and more coherent, story, but this tale wasn't for me.
(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
The blurbs for this reference "Lumberjanes", but it struck me as mostly "Lord of the Flies" meets some sort of high school teen bully fantasy.
This is the third volume of the Stig & Tilde series. We start this one off with Stig and Tilde having arrived at a new island with a pretty sweet, high end summer resort camp. In the first few pages Tilde is "hit on" by some creepy kid Lothario, who turns out to be a bully who has taken over the camp and has exiled the "losers" to the other side of the island. Tilde quite wisely knees the creep in the groin, and she and Stig run off to join said losers. We then get an odd sort of "Swallows and Amazons" vibe that never quite resolves into a consistent tone.
This isn't light hearted, but it isn't terribly dramatic either. Sometimes it feels like a summer camp dramedy, with girl/boy crushes and conflicts and so on, and sometimes it's more like a tale of survival and resistance, even though everyone wanders back and forth between the camps, there's no real violence, and it's never clear why anyone puts up with the creepy kid, who is a mouthy nobody with just one goon sidekick.
I guess you could try to draw out some messages about authority, and collaboration, and independence, and herd mentality, and prejudice and oppression, and all that sort of thing, but the whole story struck me as too unmoored and incongruously summer campy to really support any of that. We also get some magical realism and insta-love, which further keeps everything off the tracks.
At bottom, I suspect Stig and Tilde could be good fun and boon companions in a better structured, and more coherent, story, but this tale wasn't for me.
(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
March 7, 2020
3.5/5
J'ai pas mal aimé ce troisième volume , je m'attendais pas à une arrivée aussi rapide sur l'île et j'imaginais bien une sorte d’odyssée d'île en île. En général j'aime bien le travail de max de radiguès, on a clairement ici une bande dessinée à destination d'un public adolescent qui aborde les relations adolescentes en y ajoutant une dose d'action, de délires, d'humour (certaines planches m'ont pas mal fait rire.)
J'ai pas mal aimé ce troisième volume , je m'attendais pas à une arrivée aussi rapide sur l'île et j'imaginais bien une sorte d’odyssée d'île en île. En général j'aime bien le travail de max de radiguès, on a clairement ici une bande dessinée à destination d'un public adolescent qui aborde les relations adolescentes en y ajoutant une dose d'action, de délires, d'humour (certaines planches m'ont pas mal fait rire.)
September 4, 2021
Definitely the weakest part in the series.
It's a summer camp story between two rival kids groups fighting each other. A diet "Lord of the Flies" with simplistic characters.
And with so many kids around, the story lacks the mystery and "lone survivor" atmosphere of the previous albums where the focus was on the siblings exploring a seemingly uninhabited island.
It's a mildly amusing read which you can rush through in 10 minutes or less. Not a recommended read, but if you dig the first two albums, you can check this one out at the library and see for yourself.
It's a summer camp story between two rival kids groups fighting each other. A diet "Lord of the Flies" with simplistic characters.
And with so many kids around, the story lacks the mystery and "lone survivor" atmosphere of the previous albums where the focus was on the siblings exploring a seemingly uninhabited island.
It's a mildly amusing read which you can rush through in 10 minutes or less. Not a recommended read, but if you dig the first two albums, you can check this one out at the library and see for yourself.
July 19, 2022
V bistvu čist preprosta zgodba, mulci na otoku, en se odloči da bo poglavar in začne preganjat tiste k mu niso všeč, dokler se potem oni ne uprejo in se stepejo v eni veliki bitki s palcami :)
Tud risba ni nek presežek, ampak ne rabi bit, deluje tako kot je, preprosto in tisto kar je nujno je prikazano drugo so barvne flehe.
Nič posebnega, fantastičnega vse skupej, ampak prov fest, zlo verjetna zgodba da bi se znalo zgodit za res.
ob takihle si vedno mislm kako da se js tko bojim svoje zgodbe spravt v nekej... nevem.
Tud risba ni nek presežek, ampak ne rabi bit, deluje tako kot je, preprosto in tisto kar je nujno je prikazano drugo so barvne flehe.
Nič posebnega, fantastičnega vse skupej, ampak prov fest, zlo verjetna zgodba da bi se znalo zgodit za res.
ob takihle si vedno mislm kako da se js tko bojim svoje zgodbe spravt v nekej... nevem.
August 14, 2023
The cover illustration and the subtitle were promising, so I gave it a chance. Unfortunately this "Lord of the Flies"-light rendition was a disappointment and this I felt really early. The compositions, the illustrations of the kids and landscapes, the dialogs, the main story - everything was very unimaginative. The characters were flat and stereotypical. Even for younger readers this can't be a satisfying experience...
March 22, 2023
My daughter and I loved these, and I wish there were more (but not really, because there's beauty in a succinct trilogy, and when characters or worlds are over-milked for money's sake, the result is depressing).
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March 27, 2021Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
April 30, 2022
I guess I’m getting old, but assumed this volume was for younger kids, but there are some themes and language for older kids. Great illustrations!!!
November 12, 2022
6.5/10
March 8, 2023
Eye read 2023
7.5/10
7.5/10
August 28, 2023
Moins "effrayant" que les précédents mais tout de même encore aussi sympa à lire. Il y a toujours suffisamment d'action et de suspense pour qu'on se demande comment ça va finir. On découvre de nouveaux personnages, attachants... ou pas. L'intrigue prend un tournant plus classique, moins original, mais pour moi, ça fonctionne très bien. Je me demande s'il y aura des suites et si oui, je les lirais avec plaisir !
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