Mini-Review

Nicholas is a scrappy, working class boy, brought up by a single mum and determined to become a great fencer to prove himself to his dad: an Olympian fencing legend whom he’s never even met. Annihilated in his first bout by fencing prodigy Seiji, Nicholas swears he’ll get his (sporting) revenge. Fast forward to a new school year and he has a fencing scholarship to an expensive boys’ boarding school. He has to make the team to stay at the school, and guess who his room-mate is…

A very entertaining sports graphic novel with lots of action, humour and diverse characters. The writer, C.S. Pacat, was a fencer herself, so lots of accurate fencing action.

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Pacat, C. S., & Johanna the Mad (Fuentes, J.). (2017 – 2022). Fence: Vols. 1-5. BOOM! Box

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