Kim Hyun Sook – The Hub

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Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
HarperAlley / HarperCollins
Publication Date: May 11, 2021
ISBN: 9780063064942

Set in the 1990s, four teens navigate the early, dial-up days of the Internet through the use of BBS or Bulletin Board System. Allison uses BBS as an escape from her emotionally abusive magician father and meets Samir, another teen connected to the local BBS. When they meet in person, they begin to build a relationship, but conflict arises when Allison runs away from home. In a different town, Richard is in a new school and far away from his former BBS friends. He is the target of bullies until Tina, teenage anarchist and fellow BBS user, connects him with her crew, EVOL, who rebel against social conventions. Richard finds himself becoming more and more involved with this new crew, but becoming friends with the crew is more of a challenge for him.

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Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju
Iron Circus Comics
Publication Date: April 21, 2020
ISBN: 9781945820427

Kim Hyun Sook is just starting college in 1983 during civil protests in South Korea, where the government is controlling what their citizens have access to and learn. Though she just goes to college to learn and earn a degree, Hyun Sook accidentally joins a Banned Book Club. Here, she quickly realizes there is a difference between what she wants to learn, what the government wants her to learn, and what she’s willing to do to make sure she learns what’s really important.

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