 A volcano goddess named Keegan is loose in the world, and the prophecies are unclear. Will her coming bring humanity's destruction or its salvation? In the shadow of a sacred volcano lies the ancient city of Azar. To unravel the mysteries of her past, Keegan and her friends must get to Azar before it is overrun by a horde of forest monsters, and before primeval forces extinguish Keegan's flame permanently. This cult adores this volcano goddess. There is also this small teenage group, or actually young adult I guess I should say, called the third wave that want to set the goddess free because they don't believe what the cult is doing is the right thing to do. And it is within this third wave that we meet basically our three main characters. Keegan of course, I already mentioned her at the beginning of the video, this fire goddess. We also get Adria and Griffin. And these three characters are basically the nucleus of the story. They are somewhat, or at least two of the characters are romantically involved. The other is trying to get these two characters to work with her in the case of Adria so that they can go into the cult's headquarters, if you will, and set this fire goddess free. And basically she is of a volcano. And if you have followed mythology or religions throughout history, the volcano can represent power, a force of change, it is passion and it is fierce. And a lot of religions across the world in ancient times viewed the volcano as such a thing, whether it be the force behind a deity's wrath or an actual deity itself. Now the story in and of itself is actually pretty interesting. What we're getting is basically a superhero origin story disguised through a myth and legend type of tale with the character of Keegan representing our main heroine and her journey to free the supposed volcano goddess. The book itself is only three issues long. It debuted back in the comic book named Island, I think it was issue seven. And enough interest was there that warranted the publication of an original graphic novel. And the story goes into myth, creationism, and the way people are impacted by those themes. And you have the character of Keegan trying to find herself and her purpose throughout her life. She realizes that she has been living by a set of rules and not really allowing herself to experience life for what it could truly be. And this might be some slight spoilers, but you do find out almost right away in the story that the fire goddess is Keegan's mom. Something happens which I won't spoil, but let's just say our main protagonist acquires certain fire abilities and the title of goddess herself and she sets about this epic journey to reach the land of Azar and she's going into this volcano to fulfill a prophecy. Now the character of Griffin on the other hand is at the beginning of the story he's not very likable, he's a little douchey and then turns kind of wimpy, but at the end of the day he served a purpose. And there are a couple of foes in this book. There are two main forces of nature that are against the fire goddess returning to Azar and one of them has to do with water. So it's an interesting dynamic, of course it's a very cliched thing I guess, a fire goddess and a water presence, you know this fire and water fight is a little bit refreshing and that is in part by the art of this book done by Tamara Bonvillain. I think I said that right. The art in this book is, I'll be honest with you, the main thing why I approached this title. I had no idea what Firebook was about, but as soon as I saw this amazing looking cover I had to check it out and I am glad I read the book. You know there are some issues with it, there are some troubles, the villains are a little bit one note. Like I said, when you're dealing with mythology certain roles are already predestined and the story follows a beaten path that you expect and by the end of it it leaves the door open for a sequel, but I don't really see it getting another title. I might be wrong, hopefully I'm wrong and more people are interested in this book and want to pick it up, but yeah it leaves the door open, you do get a main villain, but regardless of all of that the art is gorgeous, it is beautiful, some of my favorite things in the book is the actual art and the way everything is laid out as you can see right there with this whole bluish theme for the aquatic scene and then a couple pages later you get this reddish hue for the brick walls and all that stuff and it plays beautifully with the concept of color and contrast, beautiful usage of colors. On this book is something to behold in my honest opinion, some of the best artwork. There is one of my favorite panels with the fiery explosions of the volcano and Bonvillain just knocks it out of the park in my honest opinion. Just look at that specific image, one of my favorite panels and like I said it deters from the whole mythological thing and gives you butt kicking action in a very super heroic kind of way, like this is something that would be across the big two, a Marvel or DC book, but no it's an image title, it's its very own thing and the writer for this Johnny Christmas is able to give these characters unique voices even though sometimes the explanations and the exposition dialogue that happens across the middle portion of the book tend to drag things down. There is a narrator which turns out to be like this historian type character, I did not like those scenes because they, it's a lot of dialogue that, well it's not a lot of dialogue but it's a lot of wording that bring the story to a halt. I would have appreciated some shorter dialogue boxes or something that would have sped things along. And that by the way is one of my main problems with the book, it's just three issues and I don't think that was enough time to fully embrace this world because there is some world building but you don't really get a sense of what's happening until you're thrown right in the middle of the stuff by issue two, like I mentioned it's just three issues. There are a little longer than your normal comic book issues but nonetheless it definitely felt like it needed more substance and needed a little bit more visually storytelling kind of way not through heavy dialogue. The story was just a tiny little bit predictable but nonetheless it's filled with very passionate drawings and a sense of glee and wonderful world building with amazing visuals, great character designs. I love the character designs in this book. Everybody felt unique at least for the main characters they felt separate. Some of the background characters not so much but for our main characters the one that we really care about they felt unique especially Keegan with her afro and her sense of awareness and her clothing and all that stuff especially when she's powered on like you see at the cover of the book. It really looks unique, flavorful filled with gusto I guess I should say to add a fancy word in there and I think you're gonna like it. If you're in the itching for something unique a little bit different with some familiar tropes then maybe consider getting firebug I enjoyed it. It's not the best story but it's certainly not the worst if that means anything to you guys. Thank you everybody for liking commenting subscribing and doing all that wonderful stuff that you guys do find me on your favorite social media platform and I will catch all of you on our next episode.