![]() ![]() Cannonball is about taking whatever is at hand, however meager, and making something out of it. ![]() The weirdness of mythologies-the bizarre yet apt symbolic narratives we develop to articulate the problems and insights that defy ordinary language-is Cannonball’s obsession, which it pursues with a dazzling blend of intelligence and anti-elitism. Pen (whose full name, Penelope, suggests the Homeric-level mythological traditions this book engages with) and Caroline have, in desperate, impoverished boredom, shown up at a grimy house party where a beefy bro is trying to impress Pen by telling them about a tattoo he plans to get of the Norse mythological king of the wolves, Finrir, who he proclaims “unstoppable.” “Except that I’m pretty sure they did,” Pen responds, “with a chain made out of like bird spit and lady beards.” “Mythology is so weird,” says Pen, the level-headed best friend and foil to Caroline Bertram, the fierce, rudderless queer art school graduate at the center of Cannonball, the new debut graphic novel from Kelsey Wroten. ![]()
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