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August 10, 2024
Any chance to get to see more of this weirdly beautiful world is a good thing
August 10, 2024
Page's entire Future Day Saints project is a masterpiece. I've collected, read, enjoyed, and treasured all the other volumes in this series, and his new one, "The New Arrivals," is an essential and excellent new chapter. The story is wonderfully timely and so beautifully told. A story of welcoming a new group of arrivals from another planet to the world of New Zion. The "people" (I lack a collective word to describe all the beautiful folk-kinds that appear in Page's work) who live in New Zion willingly embrace more diversity being added to their world. Their actions exemplify what it looks like to live where belonging is honored by offering unreserved welcome to newcomers. Showing the repair of old hatreds and friendships in a way that I wish we saw more of in our world. I love "The New Arrivals." It is so well done, the art so imaginative and uniquely Matt Pagey; it just shines with originality. I love to see these volumes coming into the world and think of each as an art object itself because of its beauty and execution. And as always, I find my eyes a little moister and my heart larger when I finish these volumes. What's been so delightful about these stories from a future Zion is how the characters are so imaginatively created. I smile just thinking about Liahona, Triple Combination, the so clever Good Bishop and Bad Bishop, who look identical. All the characters are great, and the remaining inhabitants who have migrated to New Zion with unique stories and histories are "fantastic" in every sense of the word I can think of. These books are for all ages, and my kids and grandkids love them, but what I find so compelling about them is the ideas they articulate at multiple levels and for every age group, especially about what an LDS version of Zion could look like. The inhabitants of New Zion instantiate a model of the concept of Zion, and what extraordinary potential we have to change the universe.
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August 8, 2024Another triumph from Matt Page. His weird mix of woke Mormon satirical preachily storytelling-slash-advertizing is like nothing else anyone is doing and it should not be missed. (Click to buy.)
If you're not seeing him with frequency on Facebook, you might have missed the announcement. (I'm not on Facebook so I'm not sure how I knew to preorder. A miracle, I presume.) But volume three is here and a must-read. In my opinion, this volume best strikes the balance between standalone story, overarching events and themes, and all the itchily ironic/capitalistic fake (and real) ads. I felt this had the most purely felt moment of the three books and the highest frequency of laughs.
Anyway. I recommend leaving them around the house. They will attract kids and give them some vocabulary that Primary sometimes just misses.
Plus, they're just fun for everyone.
(originally written July 16, 2023, here with links, images, and formatting: https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07...)
If you're not seeing him with frequency on Facebook, you might have missed the announcement. (I'm not on Facebook so I'm not sure how I knew to preorder. A miracle, I presume.) But volume three is here and a must-read. In my opinion, this volume best strikes the balance between standalone story, overarching events and themes, and all the itchily ironic/capitalistic fake (and real) ads. I felt this had the most purely felt moment of the three books and the highest frequency of laughs.
Anyway. I recommend leaving them around the house. They will attract kids and give them some vocabulary that Primary sometimes just misses.
Plus, they're just fun for everyone.
(originally written July 16, 2023, here with links, images, and formatting: https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07...)
April 3, 2024
Awesome new graphic novel from Matt Page!! The artwork is beyond. I love the way he externally expresses emotion, and everything internal, in the character's faces & bodies. Page's world building is incredibly unique and thoughtful. He continues to create the world he wishes existed, and we get the pleasure of visiting them and seeing all of the details and humanity. Funny, fun, touching, empowering and empathetic.
Plus did I mention how incredibly nostalgic it is?! Feels like going through older books and magazines with the faux adverts between pages and at the end. Only wish I could actually order these!!
Plus did I mention how incredibly nostalgic it is?! Feels like going through older books and magazines with the faux adverts between pages and at the end. Only wish I could actually order these!!
August 8, 2024
And now the rubber meets the road. All the values Matt has been presenting in the previous books come under pressure as a new group comes to New Zion. Who are they? How will their worldview affect New Zion? How will the groups of New Zion affect them? What new things will come out of their interactions?
And, again, the art. The art. The art.
And, again, the art. The art. The art.
August 15, 2024
THE NEW ARRIVALS continues Matt Page's delightful imaginings of a weirder, wilder, better Mormon world. The conclusion of the trilogy continues the top-notch art that Matt's offered in the previous two volumes, offering even more surprising and wonderful ads and inserts imagined from this alternate universe.
Here Matt explores the possibilities of redemption and true peace (drawing on stories from the Book of Mormon and other Mormon ideas, mixed with a variety of other influences, per usual). THE NEW ARRIVALS is touching and moving, offering a quasi-utopian vision of Mormonism, a vision that inspires me. Importantly, Matt's work is a pleasure to read and explore, offering a delight for the eyes, the mind, and the soul. May Matt continue to gift us with wonderful, peculiar visions of Mormonism and may the rest of us be inspired by his unique vision to create our own peculiar worlds.
Here Matt explores the possibilities of redemption and true peace (drawing on stories from the Book of Mormon and other Mormon ideas, mixed with a variety of other influences, per usual). THE NEW ARRIVALS is touching and moving, offering a quasi-utopian vision of Mormonism, a vision that inspires me. Importantly, Matt's work is a pleasure to read and explore, offering a delight for the eyes, the mind, and the soul. May Matt continue to gift us with wonderful, peculiar visions of Mormonism and may the rest of us be inspired by his unique vision to create our own peculiar worlds.
August 8, 2024
Matt has created a vibrant world with delightful stories and rad characters. There is enough here to come back to several times!
August 9, 2024
Everything comes together in this installment. Fun, original, and timely as Matt Page’s world building continues. Important and timely themes, and everything is as cool as ever.
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