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librariandest's review
5.0
An awesome Choose Your Own Adventure for the 21st Century. You follow Jimmy, a regular kid, from an ice cream store to a mad scientist's lab. The comic book panels are connected by tubes that branch off when you have to make a decision for Jimmy. You can follow hundreds, nay thousands, of different paths. When I first picked this up, I was lost in it for hours. The story gets into theories of quantum physics and time travel. It kind of blew my mind. This may not be for every kid, but those who love it will reeeeeeally love it.
asimilarkite's review
5.0
Holy awesome. I always felt kind of meh about choose your own adventure books (there are only so many storylines that end in certain death and still keep me interested), but this is way. way. cooler. Ever read a choose your own adventure comic book? Especially one with 3,856 possible path possibilities? With multiple storylines that run on the same page and secret hidden pages that can only be accessed with a code? In fact, I feel kind of weird saying that I've "read" this book, seeing as I probably only experienced 10 or 12 of the 3,856 story possibilities -- but this book is more like an interactive experience than a book.
I hope I can pull of using this in a middle school book club this summer, because, as I've said multiple times in this review ---- holy. awesome.
I hope I can pull of using this in a middle school book club this summer, because, as I've said multiple times in this review ---- holy. awesome.
rachelhelps's review
4.0
This is a choose-your-own adventure graphic novel with tabs instead of page numbers! It even feels a little like a video game, because you can figure out how to get further in the story with using the time machine and other tools.
The story itself is kind of time-travelly loopy (so, cool in a kind of hurt your brain kind of way), and the art is kind of "meh" to me. But the layout and all the various endings are awesome. Glad to have this one in my ergodic literature library! :-)
The story itself is kind of time-travelly loopy (so, cool in a kind of hurt your brain kind of way), and the art is kind of "meh" to me. But the layout and all the various endings are awesome. Glad to have this one in my ergodic literature library! :-)
emilybryk's review
3.0
There's a lot here to like -- the idea of a choose-your-own-adventure comic book is pretty attractive, and I still think there would be great things to do with this and a classroom full of kids learning about writing and sequencing.
But the story itself? I can take or leave it. Despite the meticulous working-out-of-things that a structure like this one requires, a lot of options gave me a feeling of wheel-spinning.
But the story itself? I can take or leave it. Despite the meticulous working-out-of-things that a structure like this one requires, a lot of options gave me a feeling of wheel-spinning.
msmo's review
5.0
clever and original. i would play with it all day except that i have work to do and really, i should return it to the shelves so that the kids could check it out. it's genius. i have a new crush...
gageofthegoats's review
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
rryep's review
3.0
**Pick Your Own Adventure, Comedy
>Lower Middle Grade
+Introduction Page
+Played 2 Ends
>Lower Middle Grade
+Introduction Page
+Played 2 Ends
librarylisa614's review
4.0
Found it fun- but hard to put down and pick up later on while keeping my place...
sandraagee's review
4.0
This book is incredibly trippy - in a good way. It's kind of a Choose Your Own Adventure in graphic novel format featuring time travel, entropy, quantam physics, and a doomsday device. It starts out innocently enough - do you want chocolate or vanilla ice cream? Choose which path you want to take and follow the tubes to the correct tab, which takes you to another page where the story continues. Various other choices along the way cause the story to split yet again, revealing a story that grows stranger and darker as you progress.
I first tried to read this book during my lunch break. That didn't work. Eating grapes is apparently too much distraction. You need to give this book your full attention to follow the storyline and to make sure that you are correctly following the tubes that connect each pannel. Not only are you jumping from page to page as you make different choices, but the pannels do not necessarily move in the conventional order. Sometimes you may find yourself reading from right to left, from down to up, or even looping around the page. It's weird, and it's a lot of fun once you get used to it. The narration geek in me also likes the way that this unusual structure reflects the time travel and entropy aspects of the story.
I first tried to read this book during my lunch break. That didn't work. Eating grapes is apparently too much distraction. You need to give this book your full attention to follow the storyline and to make sure that you are correctly following the tubes that connect each pannel. Not only are you jumping from page to page as you make different choices, but the pannels do not necessarily move in the conventional order. Sometimes you may find yourself reading from right to left, from down to up, or even looping around the page. It's weird, and it's a lot of fun once you get used to it. The narration geek in me also likes the way that this unusual structure reflects the time travel and entropy aspects of the story.
mschlat's review
4.0
While I've owned the book for several years, I was always frustrated by the format --- choose-your-own-adventure is great, but I had trouble following the tabs and lost patience trying different branches.
However, when I found it you could get it as an app, I quickly bought it and (maybe) finished it. I think I hit most of the major branches, and I definitely found some of the major endings (including a very affecting view of the world). The app makes it easy to review and make different choices, and I felt I had much more fun exploring.
However, when I found it you could get it as an app, I quickly bought it and (maybe) finished it. I think I hit most of the major branches, and I definitely found some of the major endings (including a very affecting view of the world). The app makes it easy to review and make different choices, and I felt I had much more fun exploring.