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geekwayne's review
3.0
'The Amazing Adventures of Jules: 1. Future Imperfect' with script and art by Emile Bravo is a children's comic about a boy named Jules who gets an adventure that is more than he bargained for.
Jules lives with his mom and dad and his bratty little brother, who is intent on murdering his guinea pig. One night, a scientist arrives at the house and tells Jules that a computer has chosen him for a space journey to Alpha Centauri. The scientist tells Jules that the trip is only 8 weeks long. What Jules doesn't know is that 8 years will pass on Earth while he is gone.
Jules takes the trip with a strange crew of people. They find stranger alien life, and some of the humans react the way humans do. When Jules gets back to Earth, he finds that his younger bratty brother is now his older bratty brother.
This was kind of a silly story, and I think preteens would like the story. The art was good. Even though the story revolves around science, there isn't a lot of it explained here.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
Jules lives with his mom and dad and his bratty little brother, who is intent on murdering his guinea pig. One night, a scientist arrives at the house and tells Jules that a computer has chosen him for a space journey to Alpha Centauri. The scientist tells Jules that the trip is only 8 weeks long. What Jules doesn't know is that 8 years will pass on Earth while he is gone.
Jules takes the trip with a strange crew of people. They find stranger alien life, and some of the humans react the way humans do. When Jules gets back to Earth, he finds that his younger bratty brother is now his older bratty brother.
This was kind of a silly story, and I think preteens would like the story. The art was good. Even though the story revolves around science, there isn't a lot of it explained here.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
ljrinaldi's review
2.0
There is something about French humor that is not coming accross in the translations I have been reading from Europe Comics. This is just another example.
The title is supposed to be a play on words, but even though it is a direct ranslation, it is lost of English speakers who rarely know about grammar, and wouldn't know Future Imperfect from Past Perfect.
And then there is the story. A boy, Jules, is chosen to go to a planet using a spaceship that travels faster than light. We don't learn until later, why he is chosen, but he clearly isn't told what the trip entails, or that traveling faster than light means that when he comes back, everyone will have aged at a much faster rate.
French hijinks ensue. Either the French has a different form of humor, or this really is a boring story of a boy, and his guinia pig, taken into outer space and back, with no clue about what is going on.
And this is going to be the first in a series,with the next book appearing to be about human cloning.
There are better French comic books out there. This isn't one of them.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
The title is supposed to be a play on words, but even though it is a direct ranslation, it is lost of English speakers who rarely know about grammar, and wouldn't know Future Imperfect from Past Perfect.
And then there is the story. A boy, Jules, is chosen to go to a planet using a spaceship that travels faster than light. We don't learn until later, why he is chosen, but he clearly isn't told what the trip entails, or that traveling faster than light means that when he comes back, everyone will have aged at a much faster rate.
French hijinks ensue. Either the French has a different form of humor, or this really is a boring story of a boy, and his guinia pig, taken into outer space and back, with no clue about what is going on.
And this is going to be the first in a series,with the next book appearing to be about human cloning.
There are better French comic books out there. This isn't one of them.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
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