So after some time it came down to the fact that I wasn't even that affected by another death in this graphic novel.īut I did love Bao's dreams, even if they weren't really well explained as to why they were suddenly happening. However, I was more than once disappointed with their personal growth aka there wasn't any because they were almost all killed off. Little Bao is fighting for the glory of China, but at what cost? So many are dying, including thousands of "secondary devils"-Chinese citizens who have converted to Christianity.īoxers had a great setting with complex characters that made me compulsively turn page after page to find out what would happen next. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers-commoners trained in kung fu-who fight to free China from "foreign devils."Īgainst all odds, this grass-roots rebellion is violently successful. Set in China, 1898, Boxers follows bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers as they roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. But upon sitting down to write this review, I found that I hadn't that many positive things to discuss like I did with the author's previous work. After having read and loved beyond words Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese, I was more than excited about picking up his other works.
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