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Luminous Beings: A Graphic Novel

by David Arnold

A friendship documentary in a post-squirrel-pocalypse world

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A friendship documentary in a post-squirrel-pocalypse world

Ty and Burger share a filmmaking ambition: to document humanity’s perseverance after the “squirrel-pocalypse” and apply to film school together. An overnight trip with friends Miles and Fib takes them through nightclubs, familiar neighborhoods, castles, and off-grid RVs as they record lives shaped by love and loss. Set across a single day, the graphic novel pairs its strange post-apocalyptic backdrop with a friendship under strain: Ty’s secret puts the duo’s shared future in question and raises what it means to grow beyond who they used to be. Zombified squirrels supply the catastrophe; adolescence, loyalty, and change give the adventure its human stakes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in graphic novels about friendship and growing up.
  • Readers drawn to post-apocalyptic adventures with an unusual, darkly comic premise.
  • Those interested in stories about filmmaking, shared ambitions, and secrets between friends.

Themes

Friendship and changeAdolescence and identitySecrets and trustLove and lossHuman perseverance

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Book overview

"A gorgeously rendered adventure that captures the ache and joy of adolescence in a mad world."--Tillie Walden, award-winning author of On a Sunbeam

Ty and Burger have known each other since before they could walk. But this shared history is nothing compared to their plans for the future: step one, make a killer documentary about humanity's recent brush with extinction; step two, apply to film school together; step three, achieve legendary status as the next great filmmaking duo. But Ty has a secret that will ultimately shake the foundations of their friendship and force them both to wonder if growing up means letting go of the people they once were.

With heads full of bioluminescence and hearts full of fury, "squizzies" have one thing on their tiny rodent brains: global annihilation. Their reign of terror may be a thing of the past, but Ty and Burger are determined to chronicle the perseverance of the human race in the wake of the "squirrel-pocalypse." With friends Miles and Fib, they embark on an overnight excursion through rowdy nightclubs, once-familiar neighborhoods, perilous castles, and off-grid RVs, all the while, recording quiet lives of love and loss in a strange new world.

Set over the course of a single day, Luminous Beings explores the many facets of friendship and love, the heavy burden of a well-kept secret, the boundless tenacity of the human spirit, and, yes, the furriest of all zombified mammals. But don't worry, it's not the end of the world. Just the end of the squirrel
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