All in all, he's not the kind of monarch you'd necessarily like, but he does happen to be a king you'll have a hard time putting down. And he sends a guy over to India for an all expense paid vacation (though, to Ethelbert's mind, it was the worst punishment he could conjure up). I mean he's perfectly nice to Princess Hildegardina (though that might be because she's three times as rich as he is and he wants to prevent his cousin from marrying her). If he's not conjuring up dinosaurs out of a laboratory or shrinking the world around him, then he's fighting with his insufferable cousin Sigismund or kicking Santa Claus in the rear. He's a menace to the very society he rules.
As the six-year-old ruler of Portocristo, Ethelbert's not just a pain. And it's something I'd hand any kid if they looked at me mournfully and asked if I didn't have any comics on my library shelves. Telling various tales surrounding a pint-sized ruler with very little common sense, I think First Second has a winner on its hands. "Tiny Tyrant", however, is another matter entirely. The "A.L.I.E.E.E.N." and the Sardine in Outer Space books do nothing for me.
To be frank with you, I love French graphic novels for teens but have never found one for younger kids that gave me anything but a vague sense of nausea/the willies. Now I'd like you to bear in mind that I am not a pushover on the subject of French GNs. What other nation could claim the wonders of "Asterix and Obelix"? Who else has the chops to give us Joann Sfar on the one hand and then turn around to toss us the partnership of Lewis Trondheim & Fabrice Parme on the other? First Second Books, never afraid to co-opt the foreign so as to market it to one and all, has now brought us a title from the aforementioned Trondheim & Parme pairing. They like their graphic novels smart, colorful, and consistently amusing. It's a sprawling story of fathers and their sons, magic, mysticism, with plenty of action, adventure, and signature Trondheim madcap humor.The French are different from you and me. Ultimately Ralph must leave the village and unlock the secrets of his childhood as he journeys to the Kingdom of Astolia, but not before he takes a young ward, Raoul, who bears an uncanny similarity to Ralph. Cut to today, his village is threatened by a vicious Horde, an apocalyptic flood may take the life of Ralph's only supporter, his father, and the Wise Men's Counsel are out for Ralph's hide after rumors he had his way with one of their daughters. That was only compounded by the constant visit of spirits that only he, Ralph, could see. After failing the test of the Chosen One as a young duck, Ralph had a tough time growing up as the village pariah, often getting into trouble due to an innate extra sense that’s rather unbelievable, embarrassing, and unfortunate. From the award-winning mind of cartoonist Lewis Trondheim comes the expansive and rich anthropomorphic medieval world of Ralph Azham.
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