At Anime on DVD, Audrey Zarr serves up a witty review of From Far Away, providing the helpful information that it’s middle school safe. This looks a bit too fantasy-ish for my tastes, but I’m guessing my 12-year-old, who is currently plowing through all the Warrior books, will eat it up. Zarr’s (almost) final word:
From Far Away is a title you should be picking up if you’ve read Red River, Fushgi Yuugi and Basara and are looking for a fix right along those lines
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
