Anansi Boys #6 | Writer: Neil Gaiman, Marc Bernardin | Artist: Shawn Martinbrough | Colorist: Chris Sotomayor | Letterer: Jim Campbell | Cover Artist: David Mack
Anansi Boys #6 is the sixth issue adapting the marvelous Anansi Boys into graphic form.
As Fat Charlie tries to grapple with all the unforeseen consequences of Spider’s day pretending to be him—from Fat Charlie’s job at the Grahame Coats Agency to his romantic complications with Daisy (and Spider and Rosie falling for each other)—we get to know Anansi through some of the African folktales about him.
Anansi wanted to eat an entire field of peas and not share it with anyone else, so he decided to trick his wife and kids into believing he had passed away. Once safely underground, Anansi would use every night to eat away at the peas, but his children were in danger of starving, so they decided to take matters into their own hands and fashion a scarecrow made out of tar to catch the culprit.
This is a tale we have seen adapted as a Br’er Rabbit story, an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the southern United States, though African descendants in the Caribbean and Latin American Afro-descendants also tell it.
It is a tale as old as the hills, and in it, Anansi becomes a Rabbit but remains a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social mores as he sees fit.
Anansi Boys #6 is available on November 27, 2024.
Genre: Fantasy
Format: FC, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price: $3.99
Age range: 14+
UPC: 7 61568 01233 0 00611
Featured image by Shawn Martinbrough, all images belong to Dark Horse Comics
Important note: Neil Gaiman is facing some serious accusations and has disappeared from social media.
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