num_pages: 40
description: The second book of Polyglot and Spleen (Gothic Dreams or How I Met My Spleen part 2) brings our two protagonist together for the first time. However, shyness, starts to rule the day and it takes the teamwork of their friends Norbert and Franston, a book dragon and a free-tail bat, to bring them together - using their shared love for Tennessee Williams' play Camino Real. Once the veil is lifted, a midnight picnic ensues and with Mr. Moonlight granting sight, and a plea to Von Eldritch at hand, we conclude the story of how our beloved characters came to meet for the first time.Polyglot &amp; Spleen is another Goth comic. Two kids, who dress in a lot of black (with splashes of purple and red and gasp white), in Victorian clothing and fishnet and face paint - with imaginations that border upon the creation of reality. They go out into the world and talk to people, find adventure, learn something about themselves. They begin to realize that there is so much more to the world than what they had been taught, and as much as their desirous imaginations demanded and dreamed. They have friends with names like Norbert Phinneas (named after the Knickerbocker School writer N.P. Willis) and Franston (who is, happily, named after nobody). Polyglot has moments of being a computer technician. Spleen works in her Uncle Grumble s bakery. Wait a moment...reconsidering, this doesn t sound like a Goth comic at all. Where is all the angst and gnurl? The tower and the gor(e)y? (Where is all of the merchandise without even having a story yet told?) Uh...Spleen likes to bake cookies in the shape of bats. For every holiday. Green bats in March. Red bats in February. Of course, orange bats for Halloween. Polyglot helps people understand the un-understandable world of computers. He isn t sarcastic about it either. You may even find him on the other end of your frantic call for help. They begin to see that all of their actions, chance encounters, no-such-thing-as-coincidences, are leading toward...that which they cannot (quite yet) put into words...and if I did, would give away the story. Suffice that the tale is one of evolution come quick...of tasty desserts...of music...of lyric...of beautiful clothing...of the comings and goings of people...of stories that seek truths and truths that seek what comes after...of stories that will extend over the life of the comic as opposed to small tales that expire and never return.
language: English
title: Polyglot & Spleen #2 - Gothic Dreams Part 2
titlecomplete: Polyglot & Spleen #2 - Gothic Dreams Part 2
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Seraphemera Books