Rex Libris - I Librarian

Posted on September 15, 2007 
Filed Under Books, Comics

Here’s a fun one I thought I should make you all aware of from SLG publishing. I Librarian is the first collection of stories about Rex Libris the librarian for Middleton Public Library. Sound pretty tame does it? Well, he’s been a librarian for over two thousand years working as an agent of the deposed, and disgruntled former Egyptian god Thoth.

Rex travels throughout the universe to collect overdue books, by force when necessary. Battling strange alien despots and shadowy Samurai demons along the way. All the while trying to satisfy the publisher of his memoirs with sufficiently marketable plot contrivances.

By publishing is memoirs, Rex is breaking the ancient silence of the “Ordo Bibleotheca” that has for millennium influenced the rise and fall of civilizations through protecting knowledge …. and the public library system. He has the permission, albeit begrudged approval of Thoth, as long as he doesn’t start wearing spandex or contact lenses. That’s because Thoth doesn’t quite approve of the comic book genre.

This is a smart, quick witted series with a well contrived and refreshingly original plot wedgie. It’s self deprecating and ironic sense of humor reminds me a little of Buffy the Vampire slayer. It’s a great read, check it out!

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