Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler

5 reviews

nick_thebucket's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

This book is incredible but the art is so poor that it actually detracts from the story. The way the expressions are drawn is so cheesy and it just doesn't read as authentic at all. Like they drew her looking more emotional eating shrimp than when she returned after time traveling for the first time. It doesn't look like the characters are feeling the emotions, they look like they're acting, if that makes sense. The anatomy was.... there were so many mistakes and they were very beginner level mistakes. The characters didn't even look like themselves half the time because the artists couldn't draw them consistently. Also the layout/composition of panels was so hard to read at times that they literally added in white border to try to make some sense of what's going on and I thought the white linework was distracting and unappealing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Hate crime, Trafficking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Self harm, Sexual violence, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Medical content, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, and Emotional abuse

hmetwade's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Medical trauma, Racism, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Suicide, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Racial slurs, Slavery, Rape, Body horror, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Gun violence, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Child death, and Drug use

tangojuliettcharlie's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I didn't enjoy the graphic novel as much as I enjoyed the novel. I felt a lot of the internal narrative was lost in the translation to imagery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Slavery, Rape, Vomit, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Violence, and Sexual violence

maisierosereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Vomit, and Violence