![]() Clanton includes just a few panels per page and breaks up some of the action with full-page spreads, resulting in a wonderfully accessible option for kids making their first forays into sequential art. The art has a childlike quality, and though Narwhal and Jelly are rendered with simple, thick-lined scrawls, the illustrations are expressive and energetic. I mean what is up with that horn?”) to the tale that Narwhal and Jelly spin in their metafictional turn, which has a waffle, a strawberry, and a sea monkey doing battle with a giant robot. Divided into three tales, the book is light on plot but brimming with a fantastically kid-friendly sense of the absurd, from the friends’ first reaction upon meeting each other (“You don’t look like any fish I’ve ever seen, but you do look kind of jelly-ish.” “Look. Earnest and down-to-earth Jelly the jellyfish is the perfect foil for endearingly airheaded Narwhal. ![]() Readers new to graphic novels will be richly rewarded with this series opener about a delightfully quirky duo. ![]()
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