X-Venture Xplorers #1: The Kingdom of Animals--Lion vs Tiger

by Meng, Black Ink Team (Illustrator), Slaium

Overview

An educational exploration of the animal kingdom!
Lions and Tigers normally don’t cross paths in the wild because they live in different habitats. Who is to say for sure who would win in a battle of these big cats? Under the guidance of Dr. Darwin and his faithful assistant Smith, a young group of researches, Sherry, Jake, Bean, Louis, Tazen, and Kwame, scour the globe for the perfect specimens to test their hypothesis. But if they aren’t careful, the fact hunters will become the hunted by mealtime! Dynamic action is supported by informative diagrams and studies of the top members of the feline family (felidae).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545805503
Publisher:	Papercutz
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Series:	X-Venture Explorers , #1
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.63(w) x 8.01(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Slaium is the editor-in-chief of Kadokawa Gempak Starz who joined the company in 2002.
Meng joined Kadokawa Gempak Starz in 2010. The language editor of Comic King and Little Monitor started his participation in the X-Venture series with research, factual presentation, and scripting.
Black Ink Team is the cartoonist team formed especially for the X-Venture series. With their strength in different fields, every member is playing his or her role in planning, drafting, illustrating, and designing characters and backgrounds.

Editorial Reviews

" Extraordinary and packed with scientific information, Rage of the Beasts is highly recommended especially for school and public library graphic novel collections "
- Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher

2020-07-14
In a rip-roaring series opener, Lion and Tiger square off in a battle to see who is “ultimate king of the animals."

Disingenuously billed as an “educational comic,” this Chinese import divides a group of spiky-haired, manga-eyed young explorers into two teams, then sends them off to gather facts about their respective creatures. Along the way both teams meet—and are sometimes stalked by—various members of the cat family, which occasions breaks for pages of basic facts and behavioral notes. The tiger team has the better run, as it adds Tazen, a “little native” who can talk to animals, in Sumatra and foils a pair of big-cat poachers in Siberia. After rejoining their rivals to exchange taunts (“What kind of king has his women fight for him!”), it turns out that they are backing the winner in a climactic battle for supremacy that, for all that it’s actually holographic, features much extreme violence. Except for Tazen and Kwame, a young member of the “Bushmen tribe” whose chief contribution is a silly mystic lion-summoning ritual, the young cast presents White and, aside from pink-haired peacemaker Sherry, is all male. The many melodramatic views of snarling predators flashing razor-sharp claws and teeth are rousing enough, but the martial premise, typecast players, and weak banter aren’t. Subsequent episodes are set to pit other “beasts of similar strength” in battle for similarly “educational” purposes.

Raw meat for adrenaline junkies—but not particularly nutritious. (multiple-choice quiz) (Graphic nonfiction. 10-12)

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