Skip to main content

Click "Archive" or "Labels" in the sidebar to browse reviews, or use the search bar to look for a specific title.


Review: Hinges: Book One: Clockwork City

Hinges: Book One: Clockwork City Hinges: Book One: Clockwork City by Meredith McClaren
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

2.5 stars, maybe 3
(A thanks to Diamond Book Publishers for sending me this.)

Okay let's cut right to the chase.

It was kinda interesting, but a lot of times it was quite hard to follow. There were a lot of close ups that I had to look long and hard at before I understood what the heck was being depicted. Even just in general, whenever a character was doing something it was quite difficult to follow. After a few panels I would be able to get the gist of what characters were doing, but I couldn't get an actual picture of it. Which is bad considering this is a graphic medium.

Another thing about the art: It looked very juvenile to me. It's the type of art style that you would expect a teenager to have, not one you would find in print. The type of style that you'd find in a web comic, perhaps. These are the thoughts that were going through my head as I was reading, so when I looked on Goodreads and saw that this actually WAS from a webcomic, I wasn't surprised. Buuuutttttttttt. I am not saying I didn't like the art. It was nice, all things said. I found myself really liking how McClaren draws hands, and the backgrounds were nice too.

Okay okay okay art specs aside, HOW WAS THE STORY!?!? Well I guess it was alright. I mean, like I said earlier, half the time I didn't know what the heck was going on. But there was something charming going on, something that makes me want to read more. I have no idea what or why that is.

I wouldn't recommend this to someone who's never read a comic or graphic novel before, but if you find the synopsis interesting I say go ahead.

View all my reviews
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Review: 寄宿学校のジュリエット（３）

寄宿学校のジュリエット（３） by 金田陽介 My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brb, crying. Not actually, though. Like, I didn’t shed any actual tears or even get close to it, it’s just that this series… is so good . The romance between Romeo and Juliet is still weirdly innocent, but the actual story is so engrossing and entertaining. It also seems like almost literally every single character is complex and interesting and multi-layered. (Only the background characters like Maru’s lackeys are undeveloped, but honestly they really don’t need any development anyway.) The relationships between characters keep getting more and more complex, and the situations that the characters have to deal with are also super juicy. This is such an addicting series. My initial problem with Romeo and Juliet’s relationship was that it seemed pretty unhealthy and one-sided to me. Later, I found it very weird how sexually immature they both are, and how un-intimate their relationship is. What is interest...
Post a Comment
Read more

Review: Lulu Is a Rhinoceros

Lulu Is a Rhinoceros by Jason Flom My rating: 3 of 5 stars The second I saw the cover of this book and read the synopsis I immediately thought that this was going to be a book that uses animals to create an allegory about transsexuality, as another installment in the growing genre of kid’s LGBTQA+ books. The whole "that's what she sees when she looks in the mirror" business felt really on the nose, and I feel like the authors purposefully used this wording in order to generate buzz around this book. In actuality, this felt like any other normal kids book. You have a character who feels misunderstood by their peers, and so they go on a "journey" to find and/or prove themselves and eventually end up finding peace with who they are and/or a group who accepts them. To me, the story was told in a way that presented Lulu like any other silly character in a children's book that had a silly problem stemming from their silly misco...
Post a Comment
Read more

Review: The Art of the Adventures of Tintin

The Art of the Adventures of Tintin by Chris Guise My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Art of The Adventures of Tintin was even better than I could have ever dreamed. This is my first "Art of" book, and I kind of knew what I was getting into but I was still surprised. I didn't even mean to start reading this when I started reading this. We were given an assignment in art class to design a poster for the school play and I really had no ideas. I remembered that these "Art of" books are full of concept art so I decided to flip through this one. Well, next thing I knew I wasn't just flipping through it, I was completely engrossed in it. I flipped to the first page and started properly reading it. This book was a good reading experience. Right off the bat Chris Guise lets the reader know that he's not going to bombard you with text, that he's gonna let the art do most of the talking and he's going to make the best "Ar...
Post a Comment
Read more