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izzys_internet_bookshelf's review against another edition
DNF
SIGH. I was enjoying the book but it got too graphic for me to handle.
SIGH. I was enjoying the book but it got too graphic for me to handle.
mehsi's review against another edition
1.0
Received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Let's just say this book was horrendous. I will just write a few sentences about the book, because a good or bad isn't going to work, since I can't really think of anything positive.
Throughout the book I was experiencing lots of WTF and WTH. I at times had no clue what happened. I mean, our main girl just walks in the middle of the street, gets thrown by bus and the bus stop sign just bend through. That was the first time I had no clue what had happened. Sure I read the description, but come on I was expecting at least a bit of background before getting thrown in the world of stopping with superheroism. So I was like: OMG that girl just got killed by a bus!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then find out she was unharmed, not even a scratch, just a poor bend bus stop sign. I was utterly confused and wanted to close the book then.
But I continued bravely, and I kind of wish I just dropped the book and wrote a review about the book then.
I will rant about the story and how confusing and at times boring it was in a bit. First up, the art and the text bubbles. Because, I am sure it might look good in bookformat, but it just doesn't work out in pdf/epub/cbr. At times I just couldn't read the text, at other times I had to squint and hurt my head reading stuff. The art is a bit fuzzy too, like someone erased some stuff, edited something in and erased some more. This might be that they converted it crappy, but I am deducting points for this. I need to be able to read a book, and also need to like the art. In graphic novels these are two of the biggest things I look at.
Now we have several plotlines and I think it would just be good to have stayed with one. We have Mega Girl + her trying to actually do something without her superpowers, we have the whole Feral part, we have her boyfriend who is/was actually a bad villain part, we got several other things happening and sorry, just stick with one plot. Especially in your first book. Don't throw it all at me, especially without much of a backstory. For most, I didn't feel anything for the characters. I was just confused, and I didn't really see why it was so much trouble to stop with superhero stuff.
And then that Feral stuff and how that escalated (again, because seriously this is not the first time). *sighs*
Mega Girl, or Allison, I just found her pathetic. I didn't like her. At times she would all be like: Sorry, Sorry, sorry for whatever the fuck I did, and then come back with lines that she wants to kill everyone, that she fantasizes about killing people... all the effing time? Wait what? Sorry, but every time she would do this, and also all the sorry crap I only started disliking her more and more, up to the point that I just didn't want to continue.
I will be honest, at around 100 of the 223 pages of my epub/pdf, I just want to quit, I wanted to stop reading this, and I continued, continued to see if maybe, just maybe it would get better. Sadly it didn't. Every time I would look at the page number, and see I only read a few pages instead of the big number I was expecting. I really had to drag/force myself through it.
I would say my favourite chapter would be the last one, that one FINALLY explains about Allison and her superpowers and how she got them and such. FINALLY.
And then it suddenly just stops. Yeah, if you want to read more about Allison, just pop over to our website. Um, no. Nice and anti-climatic to end a book like that. Definitely minus-points.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Let's just say this book was horrendous. I will just write a few sentences about the book, because a good or bad isn't going to work, since I can't really think of anything positive.
Throughout the book I was experiencing lots of WTF and WTH. I at times had no clue what happened. I mean, our main girl just walks in the middle of the street, gets thrown by bus and the bus stop sign just bend through. That was the first time I had no clue what had happened. Sure I read the description, but come on I was expecting at least a bit of background before getting thrown in the world of stopping with superheroism. So I was like: OMG that girl just got killed by a bus!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then find out she was unharmed, not even a scratch, just a poor bend bus stop sign. I was utterly confused and wanted to close the book then.
But I continued bravely, and I kind of wish I just dropped the book and wrote a review about the book then.
I will rant about the story and how confusing and at times boring it was in a bit. First up, the art and the text bubbles. Because, I am sure it might look good in bookformat, but it just doesn't work out in pdf/epub/cbr. At times I just couldn't read the text, at other times I had to squint and hurt my head reading stuff. The art is a bit fuzzy too, like someone erased some stuff, edited something in and erased some more. This might be that they converted it crappy, but I am deducting points for this. I need to be able to read a book, and also need to like the art. In graphic novels these are two of the biggest things I look at.
Now we have several plotlines and I think it would just be good to have stayed with one. We have Mega Girl + her trying to actually do something without her superpowers, we have the whole Feral part, we have her boyfriend who is/was actually a bad villain part, we got several other things happening and sorry, just stick with one plot. Especially in your first book. Don't throw it all at me, especially without much of a backstory. For most, I didn't feel anything for the characters. I was just confused, and I didn't really see why it was so much trouble to stop with superhero stuff.
And then that Feral stuff and how that escalated (again, because seriously this is not the first time). *sighs*
Mega Girl, or Allison, I just found her pathetic. I didn't like her. At times she would all be like: Sorry, Sorry, sorry for whatever the fuck I did, and then come back with lines that she wants to kill everyone, that she fantasizes about killing people... all the effing time? Wait what? Sorry, but every time she would do this, and also all the sorry crap I only started disliking her more and more, up to the point that I just didn't want to continue.
I will be honest, at around 100 of the 223 pages of my epub/pdf, I just want to quit, I wanted to stop reading this, and I continued, continued to see if maybe, just maybe it would get better. Sadly it didn't. Every time I would look at the page number, and see I only read a few pages instead of the big number I was expecting. I really had to drag/force myself through it.
I would say my favourite chapter would be the last one, that one FINALLY explains about Allison and her superpowers and how she got them and such. FINALLY.
And then it suddenly just stops. Yeah, if you want to read more about Allison, just pop over to our website. Um, no. Nice and anti-climatic to end a book like that. Definitely minus-points.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
labunnywtf's review against another edition
3.0
I genuinely didn't know anything about the series when I requested the book from Netgalley. I didn't know this was a graphic novel that had been in the works for quite some time, and that fans had contributed to a Kickstarter to get the book made. I liked the premise, loved the cover, wanted to give it a shot.
I jumped from excited to disappointed fairly quickly. But it got better.
In the beginning, I thought this would be something akin to "A day in the life of an ordinary superhero." She goes to protests, she gets hit by buses, etc, etc. And I got excited, because how much fun will that be?
But then I realized this is another post-origin superhero story, the aftermath, superheroes are real, dealing with the fall out. Blah. blah.
I perked up quickly, though, and am glad I didn't give up. The story gets confusing at parts, certainly. I read almost the entire thing in one sitting, and I still had a difficult time connecting two and two after 10 or so pages had passed.
But Allison's story is great. It's genuine, and it's human. The protests against her and other superheroes predictable, but I had fun reading all the protester signs.
The real moments were more interesting than the flashbacks to her as Mega Girl, the sadness of the Feral storyline, the interesting star-crossed lovers situation of her life with Patrick.
I want to know more. I look forward to more books coming out.
One huge complaint, though. It wasn't until I got to the end that I figured out what those captions were at the bottom of the page. I'm guessing here, but I'm going to assume they were the alt text on the online comic version.
Now, with an online comic like XKCD, these alt texts are necessary, and hilarious, and the printed out versions on my fridge really lose something without them.
This comic series gains nothing from those captions. They're distracting, and unnecessary. And, in the moments of true emotion, are completely useless and frustrating.
I hope this book does very well. I hope it gets a second printing. And I hope that those captions get left on the editing floor.
I jumped from excited to disappointed fairly quickly. But it got better.
In the beginning, I thought this would be something akin to "A day in the life of an ordinary superhero." She goes to protests, she gets hit by buses, etc, etc. And I got excited, because how much fun will that be?
But then I realized this is another post-origin superhero story, the aftermath, superheroes are real, dealing with the fall out. Blah. blah.
I perked up quickly, though, and am glad I didn't give up. The story gets confusing at parts, certainly. I read almost the entire thing in one sitting, and I still had a difficult time connecting two and two after 10 or so pages had passed.
But Allison's story is great. It's genuine, and it's human. The protests against her and other superheroes predictable, but I had fun reading all the protester signs.
The real moments were more interesting than the flashbacks to her as Mega Girl, the sadness of the Feral storyline, the interesting star-crossed lovers situation of her life with Patrick.
I want to know more. I look forward to more books coming out.
One huge complaint, though. It wasn't until I got to the end that I figured out what those captions were at the bottom of the page. I'm guessing here, but I'm going to assume they were the alt text on the online comic version.
Now, with an online comic like XKCD, these alt texts are necessary, and hilarious, and the printed out versions on my fridge really lose something without them.
This comic series gains nothing from those captions. They're distracting, and unnecessary. And, in the moments of true emotion, are completely useless and frustrating.
I hope this book does very well. I hope it gets a second printing. And I hope that those captions get left on the editing floor.
geekwayne's review against another edition
4.0
'Strong Female Protagonist Book One' started out kind of irritating the heck out of me, but I kept reading and it kind of grew on me. That's not much of a glowing endorsement, but it is what it is.
Alison Green is an ex-superhero. She still has all the powers and is recognized wherever she goes, but it's just not what she does anymore. She has friends that were superheroes with her, including one named Feral who can regenerate and heal, and another who can shrink down to microscopic size. She used to want to change the world, and realized that the way she was doing it wasn't working.
She has run ins with old villains and tries to help them cope with the strangeness that they are. Unlike many other superheroes, she has family, so that plays into things as well.
It's all part of an online webcomic and it's done in black and white art, but that didn't really bother me. What did bother me was the constant author comments at the bottom of the page. They reminded me of that annoying guy at the movie who always has to make a comment about everything. All they did was keep pulling me out of the story. I wanted to stay in the story. Hopefully those go away in volume 2.
Also, the story starts with Alison already retired, and I kind of felt like I was missing something. Like any sense of joy at having immense power. The thrill of flight, or punching something really hard. Instead, we are left with the aftermath, which is probably the point, but it still felt lacking to me.
I do like some of the emotional punches it packs, and while it took me quite a while to get into it, it finally hooked me. The art is about as good as you'll get from a webcomic and so's the story, but that's not a bad thing. This book was the result of a Kickstarter campaign, so it does have it's fans.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Top Shelf Productions and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
Alison Green is an ex-superhero. She still has all the powers and is recognized wherever she goes, but it's just not what she does anymore. She has friends that were superheroes with her, including one named Feral who can regenerate and heal, and another who can shrink down to microscopic size. She used to want to change the world, and realized that the way she was doing it wasn't working.
She has run ins with old villains and tries to help them cope with the strangeness that they are. Unlike many other superheroes, she has family, so that plays into things as well.
It's all part of an online webcomic and it's done in black and white art, but that didn't really bother me. What did bother me was the constant author comments at the bottom of the page. They reminded me of that annoying guy at the movie who always has to make a comment about everything. All they did was keep pulling me out of the story. I wanted to stay in the story. Hopefully those go away in volume 2.
Also, the story starts with Alison already retired, and I kind of felt like I was missing something. Like any sense of joy at having immense power. The thrill of flight, or punching something really hard. Instead, we are left with the aftermath, which is probably the point, but it still felt lacking to me.
I do like some of the emotional punches it packs, and while it took me quite a while to get into it, it finally hooked me. The art is about as good as you'll get from a webcomic and so's the story, but that's not a bad thing. This book was the result of a Kickstarter campaign, so it does have it's fans.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Top Shelf Productions and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
lsparrow's review against another edition
4.0
I loved this book from the cover!
I loved the struggle of the characters of what it means to "do good" or to "be a hero" and how do we/should we/can we "save the world" or ourselves.
I loved the struggle of the characters of what it means to "do good" or to "be a hero" and how do we/should we/can we "save the world" or ourselves.
emmaraeempowered's review against another edition
3.75
As a fan of Brennan Lee Mulligan of course I had to eventually read his graphic novel! Lol
I think the best part of this graphic novel was the little side comments that were at the bottom of the pages (yes every page). They would be things like "what's that guys problem??" or pointing out a small detail in the artwork. It added a cool layer of humor even when things were getting serious.
I really enjoyed this take on a super hero story and found a lot of similarities with how children in media are treated. Mega Girl aka Allison Green, was born with a superpower (along with other kids across the world). Upon meeting the other kids with superpowers they ban together (due to the government) and fight crime! Until she has had enough and removes her mask and reveals her real identity. Now she's just trying to be a 'normal' person, go to college, have friends etc.
I drew the similarity to how children are treated in media because I know there has been a surge of child actors we grew up watching writing books, starting podcasts, or speaking out in other ways about how they were pressured and treated as child actors. Constantly in the light and around adults exposing them to things they didn't need to be. As well as the intense surge of 'family bloggers' or baby accounts across social media. These kids are being put in front of an insane amount of people watching them grow up it feels dangerous and I often wonder what life will be like for these kids when they are teenagers and young adults.
Anyway, back to Mega Girl...
I think this story really expressed her struggle with finding what doing the right thing is. Everyone has their own idea of what that is and she struggles with knowing which one to listen to or follow. Or even what ideas of her own make sense to her. The young adult struggle of "how do i do life??" is strongly present and relatable even if I don't have super strength lol.
As of writing this I have picked up Vol 2. and I'm looking forward to the other topics Brennan explores throughout.
I think the best part of this graphic novel was the little side comments that were at the bottom of the pages (yes every page). They would be things like "what's that guys problem??" or pointing out a small detail in the artwork. It added a cool layer of humor even when things were getting serious.
I really enjoyed this take on a super hero story and found a lot of similarities with how children in media are treated. Mega Girl aka Allison Green, was born with a superpower (along with other kids across the world). Upon meeting the other kids with superpowers they ban together (due to the government) and fight crime! Until she has had enough and removes her mask and reveals her real identity. Now she's just trying to be a 'normal' person, go to college, have friends etc.
I drew the similarity to how children are treated in media because I know there has been a surge of child actors we grew up watching writing books, starting podcasts, or speaking out in other ways about how they were pressured and treated as child actors. Constantly in the light and around adults exposing them to things they didn't need to be. As well as the intense surge of 'family bloggers' or baby accounts across social media. These kids are being put in front of an insane amount of people watching them grow up it feels dangerous and I often wonder what life will be like for these kids when they are teenagers and young adults.
Anyway, back to Mega Girl...
I think this story really expressed her struggle with finding what doing the right thing is. Everyone has their own idea of what that is and she struggles with knowing which one to listen to or follow. Or even what ideas of her own make sense to her. The young adult struggle of "how do i do life??" is strongly present and relatable even if I don't have super strength lol.
As of writing this I have picked up Vol 2. and I'm looking forward to the other topics Brennan explores throughout.
alyshadeshae's review against another edition
5.0
I had no idea this was a webcomic and I feel as though I've missed out on it, but it was amazing! I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but superheroes (sort of) were definitely worth it!
sunflowerhexe's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 rounded up
This has been on my shelf for who knows how long and I finally snagged it. Our main character is uh really going through it. She was a teenage superhero celebrity and she cannot escape her past in her present. We get to see her struggle with friends, and family - a mix of normalcy and the extra.
I rounded up because I really liked the extra at the end. It’s a shame there wasn’t more on that in the book.
This has been on my shelf for who knows how long and I finally snagged it. Our main character is uh really going through it. She was a teenage superhero celebrity and she cannot escape her past in her present. We get to see her struggle with friends, and family - a mix of normalcy and the extra.
I rounded up because I really liked the extra at the end. It’s a shame there wasn’t more on that in the book.
kayhalgren's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0