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beccaand's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, and Animal death
Moderate: Lesbophobia, Confinement, Homophobia, and Car accident
Minor: Bullying
rainbowrocky's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
The small comics from Walden’s youth were a cute inclusion. You can really see her development as an artist as time goes on and she experiments more. I think my favorite was In The Palm Of Your Hand—what an interesting and incredibly sapphic concept. I would love to be shown the world by a goddess lol.
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Chronic illness, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, and Animal death
Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Incest, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny
Minor: War, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
constant_reader's review
2.0
Graphic: Car accident and Child death
Moderate: Animal death
robinks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Animal death, Blood, and Car accident
Moderate: Violence, Death, and Confinement
Minor: Bullying, Incest, Rape, Lesbophobia, and Sexual assault
whatisjordyreading's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.5
Graphic: Rape, Ableism, Animal death, Car accident, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Murder, Child death, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Gore
Moderate: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Misogyny
nodogsonthemoon's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Death, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Child death, and Lesbophobia
betweentheshelves's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
I don't know why it took me so long to read this particular collection, but I love that all her early work is together in one place. Something I definitely need to add to my own graphic novel collection, and I don't know why I haven't yet!
There's so much emotion in this book, even though some of the stories are short. For sure something I want to revisit again in the future!
Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, and Car accident
Minor: Sexual assault, Incest, and Rape
brogan7's review
3.75
I started reading Tillie Walden with Spinning, which is still, I think, her most accessible and story-driven work.
Her art is so, so amazing and the pieces in Alone in Space are no exception. As in some of her other work (On a Sunbeam and Are you listening), the dreamlike quality of the work seems more important to her than having the reader understand exactly what even happened in the story.
In this collection, I particularly liked The end of summer (though not clear on what happened, or in some parts, why it happened) and Glare (one of her earliest works).
I guess one of the reasons I don't like the ambiguity is that it blunts the emotional effect of the events in the stories--which may be exactly why she does it--it's unsettling with art that is so precise, at times photographic, to feel like the story is not fully filled in.
Moderate: Incest, Blood, Animal death, Car accident, Child death, and Confinement
snowydaze's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Car accident, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, Murder, and Terminal illness
readingwithkt's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Child abuse, Car accident, and Pregnancy
Minor: Sexual violence and Murder