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marenkae's review
2.0
Alright. This is a weird one. King is a graphic novel set in a very distant post-apocalyptic future where humans are extinct (except for our protagonist, OBVIOUSLY) and the world is overrun with gross hybrid animals, giant robots, mythical creatures, dinosaurs, aliens....THERE REALLY ARE NO RULES HERE. We got maybe four pages of backstory in total. The book doesn't bother fleshing out anything--you just have to roll with it.
I didn't love this, honestly. It was poorly written. I felt like there was a lot of forced humor that was desperately trying to appeal to teenage boys. The story starts and ends abruptly and just doesn't have a well developed plot. There's a lot of futuristic slang which wouldn't bother me if it were consistent and seemed to make sense but it reeeally didn't?? Swear words in this world include normal things (hell, shit, dammit,) real words that aren't currently curse words (fallopian, motherfathers,) and then just complete nonsense words (farging, shazbot, zarquon, goiterbog, bastinado, blorking, borking.) This whole point about the slang is a fairly minor detail but I'm drawing it up to give a picture of how all over the place this book is.
It was a fast-paced and action-packed read and I did like the colorful and varied art but mostly there just wasn't very much substance here.
Thank you to the publisher for sending a copy in exchange for an honest review.
I didn't love this, honestly. It was poorly written. I felt like there was a lot of forced humor that was desperately trying to appeal to teenage boys. The story starts and ends abruptly and just doesn't have a well developed plot. There's a lot of futuristic slang which wouldn't bother me if it were consistent and seemed to make sense but it reeeally didn't?? Swear words in this world include normal things (hell, shit, dammit,) real words that aren't currently curse words (fallopian, motherfathers,) and then just complete nonsense words (farging, shazbot, zarquon, goiterbog, bastinado, blorking, borking.) This whole point about the slang is a fairly minor detail but I'm drawing it up to give a picture of how all over the place this book is.
It was a fast-paced and action-packed read and I did like the colorful and varied art but mostly there just wasn't very much substance here.
Thank you to the publisher for sending a copy in exchange for an honest review.
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