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Jay Hosler of Clan Apis and the unrelated Sandwalk Adventures is back with a graphic novel featuring a bold band of beetle explorers venturing out past the oasis that defined their world for a millennium. It's told in chapters that would make for acceptable serial installments (although they're however long they need to be, so it'd have to be an online thing rather than floppies), and the chapter title pages are cleverly used to tell a "meanwhile, back at the ranch" sort of story in snapshot form. The world starts off as a sort of pseudo-Victorian beetle society with a few primitive inventions created by the main protagonist...but it rapidly shoots past "steampunk" (steambug?) and into more of a proper edisonade full of wild stuff borrowed from Astro Boy and Jack Kirby.

As with most of Hosler's comics, it seeks to educate while it entertains, and making the main characters into scientific explorers helps accomplish this without being too awkward. Having Professor Bombadier stop to explain something is perfectly in character, whereas it might be a bit more jarring if these were just a bunch of everybugs. (Clan Apis did suffer a little from "why are they expositing?" issues, by contrast.) And, unsurprisingly, there's endnotes and a list of references.

Strongly recommended.


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Last of the Sandwalkers Jay Hosler Books Reviews

This is at heart a love story, the story of one man's love for science and beetles. The author I mean.

I'm not sure what age this would be aimed at, but I think anyone with an interest in science, bugs, beetles, or just good graphic novels is going to enjoy this. The vocabulary is a bit dense, and the dialogue tends to crowd out the illustrations, but it's got plenty going to keep the reader fascinated and I think even a nerdy elementary student could get excited as the scientific explanations of the bugs abilities pull them forward through the story.

I really enjoyed this book all around and look forward to Hosler's next project.
(Full disclosure I received a free copy of this book for review from the publisher.)

I find myself thinking about this hue-mon all of the time. I wonder if it ever thought about us?
Was there room in here for thoughts about beetles?

Did it ever wonder how some glow?
Or spray liquid fire?
Or dance on water?
Or drink fog?

Maybe someday, if a hue-mon reads this journal, it will help them appreciate all of the amazing little aliens living underfoot.

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Lucy may “just” be a junior faculty member at Colepolis University – and a beetle, to boot – but she’s about to change the way her people view the world. Reluctantly granted funding by the scientific ministry, Lucy’s leading a team of five scientist-explorers out into the great unknown – the vast desert that lies beyond the oasis where their coconut tree grows. Colepolis is home, and all its beetle citizens know of the world – all its elite ruling class allows them to know – is contained within its borders. That is, until Lucy breaks with years of tradition and superstition, and insists on proving that the world is more complex and wonderful than they can possibly imagine.

At her side are the senior professors, the kindly Beatrice Bombardier and the scheming and reactionary Professor Owen, secret member of the Order of the Scarabi; the pun-loving Raef, who may or may not be part robot; large and lumbering Mossy, the group’s protector; and, last but certainly not least, Ma’Dog, a storyteller long since exiled from Colepolis, who begrudgingly trades his expertise for safe passage back to his homeland. Together they must brave all sorts of threats – snakes, sandstorms, spiders, birds, bats, velvet worms, tree resin, and worst of all, backstabbing colleagues and religious fundamentalists – in order to return to Colepolis with news of all the strange and unusual creatures they found.

Jay Hosler’s LAST OF THE SANDWALKERS might be the first graphic novel I’ve read that ends with both footnotes *and* a reference list – which speaks volumes about the book. Not only is it witty, wonderfully imaginative, and highly entertaining, but Hosler – a biology professor at Juniata College – educates as well. The story is populated by all manner of grotesque yet adorable insects; the drawings are both lovely and highly informative. There’s even a field guide to the main characters! If Gil Grissom were a real person (and I was lucky enough to count him a friend), he’d totally find this stuffed in his stocking come Christmas.

(True story before I realized that Professor Bombardier was a lady, I imagined her speaking in William Petersen’s voice. Then I switched to William Petersen speaking in falsetto.)

Lucy is the sort of hero you want to root for smart but not infallible, she’s a clever girl who wants nothing more than see the world and suck down its knowledge like so much nectar. She’s also kind and compassionate; some of my favorite scenes involve Lucy fretting over the amber beetle’s well-being, or interacting with the emotionally fragile Raef. There’s an especially refreshing plot line about consent, which I don’t think was necessarily intended in a sexual way, but could certainly be used to teach kids about the importance of bodily consent as well.

While LAST OF THE SANDWALKERS is a great tool for getting kids interested in entomology (and teaching the importance of scientific inquiry in general), adults are sure to get a kick out of it as well. There are quite a few unexpected twists and turns that had me at the edge of my seat, and I stayed up well past my bedtime to finish. Secret societies, family drama, robots big and small, action and adventure, even a touch of romance – LAST OF THE SANDWALKERS has got it all. I won’t lie; I even got a little teary-eyed at the end. (Page 292 – that’s the spot.)

Buy it for Little nerdlings; kids who like playing in the dirt; adults who carry spiders outside instead of squashing them outright – or are happy to just let them be.
Worth the wait. Wonderful.
great book, great service
A quick, but interesting read! Very educational, a must read for anyone who enjoys insects! Definitely going to try teaching this.
The book was great I really enjoyed reading the book. I also like that it is in a graphic novel
My 9 year old LOVES this book. I purchased "Evolution" for him for Christmas and he's loving that as well.
Jay Hosler of Clan Apis and the unrelated Sandwalk Adventures is back with a graphic novel featuring a bold band of beetle explorers venturing out past the oasis that defined their world for a millennium. It's told in chapters that would make for acceptable serial installments (although they're however long they need to be, so it'd have to be an online thing rather than floppies), and the chapter title pages are cleverly used to tell a "meanwhile, back at the ranch" sort of story in snapshot form. The world starts off as a sort of pseudo-Victorian beetle society with a few primitive inventions created by the main protagonist...but it rapidly shoots past "steampunk" (steambug?) and into more of a proper edisonade full of wild stuff borrowed from Astro Boy and Jack Kirby.

As with most of Hosler's comics, it seeks to educate while it entertains, and making the main characters into scientific explorers helps accomplish this without being too awkward. Having Professor Bombadier stop to explain something is perfectly in character, whereas it might be a bit more jarring if these were just a bunch of everybugs. (Clan Apis did suffer a little from "why are they expositing?" issues, by contrast.) And, unsurprisingly, there's endnotes and a list of references.

Strongly recommended.