I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the BONDING by Matthew Erman & Emily Pearson Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Title: BONDING: A Love Story About People and
Their Parasites
Author: Matthew Erman, Emily Pearson (Illustrations)
Pub. Date: January 31, 2023
Publisher: Vault Comics
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 208
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/BONDING
“Wear your heart on your
sleeve.” That’s the saying. But in BONDING,
people wear their anxiety on their chests – in the form of a parasite
that shows everyone just what you’re feeling on the inside …
WEAR YOUR LOVE ON YOUR CHEST
A man, a woman—and their parasites. Marcus has been alone since the loss of
his closest friend and has just recently entered into the dating scene, while
Laura has drifted in and out of relationships since high school. They meet,
they have a great first date, and Marcus almost dies—because the slug-like
parasite that everybody carries in this world nearly rejects him, its
host. BONDING is a funny, quirky, and honest look at love, in
a world where everyone wears their anxiety, not on their sleeves, but on their
chest like big ol' leeches.
Fans of Matthew Erman's work on Vault Comics' WITCHBLOOD and
Archaia's JIM HENSON'S THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE will
find lots to love in BONDING. Fans of Image Comics' ICE
CREAM MAN VOL. 1, DC Comics' COLLAPSER and even books
like THE HOST by Stephenie Meyer and THE PARASITOLOGY
TRILOGY by Mira Grant will enjoy this foray into all the stressors of
dating...where a parasite is the least of your worries (unless it kills you,
that is.)
Review:
“Erman and Pearson skewer genre norms
in this sweet and casually unsettling comics romance-dramedy…”- Publishers Weekly
This was an interesting book. I absolutely loved the art style of it, I thought it was colorful in a muted sort of way and I thought it was quite interesting. It worked really well with the story.
The story was a bit...strange to me. Not in a bad way necessarily, but it was something that I wasn't quite sure I liked most of the time. My emotions about it are still kind of mixed and confusing but I did think that the story was interesting. It flowed well though and was built up well.
I saw one review for this book that said it was unsettling and I think that's a good word for it. It's not bad, but it throughs you off kilter. It shakes the floor from under you.
About Matthew Erman:
Matthew
Erman is a comics writer from Columbus, Ohio. Alongside Lisa Sterle, he
co-created the critically acclaimed comic horror series, Long Lost, which was optioned for Film/TV by Producer Jenny Klein (The
Witcher, Daisy Jones and The Six). Erman has since worked on the comic book
series Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and
graphic novel Power Rangers: Sins of the Future with BOOM! Studios,
series Care Bears: Unlock the Magic with IDW, the upcoming
science fiction/ horror / humorous romance original graphic novel BONDING,
with artist and co-creator Emily Pearson for Vault Comics, and the smash
supernatural action adventure comics series (with artist/co-creator Lisa
Sterle) from Vault Comics, WITCHBLOOD. His short work
can be found in anthologies such as Corpus (2018), Dead Beats (2019)
and Everything is Going Wrong (2019).
Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Amazon
About Emily Pearson:
Emily
Pearson is a freelance comic book artist from Davis, California.
She has previously worked for Black Mask Studios; “The Wilds”(2018) and
“Snap Flash Hustle”(2018-19), Oni Press’s “The Vain”(2020),
and the upcoming “Bonding” coming to Vault Comics in 2022.
In addition
to comics series, she drew a short story for the Ringo Award Winning “Mine!” an
anthology for Planned Parenthood, Vault Comic’s “Cult Classic Zero
Short”, “CORPUS” curated by Nadia Shammas, and “Everything
is Going Wrong: Comics on Punk & Mental Illness”.
She has illustrated various covers for comic books including: “Stranger
Things: SIX” from Dark Horse Comics, “Calexit: Emmie X”, “The
Devil Within”, “Sweet/Vicious”, “The Wilds”, “Snap
Flash Hustle” from Black Mask Studios, “Going to the Chapel” from
Action Lab, “Atlantis Wasn’t Built For Tourists” from Scout
Comics and many more.
Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads
Giveaway Details:
2 winners
will receive a finished copy of BONDING, US Only.
Ends
February 18th, midnight EST.
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