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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
Un racconto di amicizia e capire che luogo hai nel mondo
Felt like a sci-fi Studio Ghibli film in the best way possible.
This is the first graphic novel I've ever read without a single man in it. It's all women and one gender-non-binary character. I'm not sure if this is the first book I've ever read with literally no men, but if not it's definitely one of, like, three. That's not what made it good, but it's worth noting.
"On a Sunbeam" is a space opera, through and through: part adventure, part love story. The art is unique when it comes to characters and dramatic for landscapes. And it really is a compelling story. My only criticism is that the ending is rushed--it all kind of happens at once and then it's suddenly over. Even though this book was over 500 pages, I feel like it needed another fifty or so to get the ending right.
"On a Sunbeam" is a space opera, through and through: part adventure, part love story. The art is unique when it comes to characters and dramatic for landscapes. And it really is a compelling story. My only criticism is that the ending is rushed--it all kind of happens at once and then it's suddenly over. Even though this book was over 500 pages, I feel like it needed another fifty or so to get the ending right.
Anti-capitalist queer feminist sci-fi graphic fic FTW!
(The story/world-building/characters are just great. Total gem, especially if you're a feminist sci-fi geek like me...)
(The story/world-building/characters are just great. Total gem, especially if you're a feminist sci-fi geek like me...)
Such a wholesome and amazing story of young love, found family, and the growth in maturity of a character. Definitely one I can read over and over again.
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is my first time reading Tillie Walden but it certainly will not be my last. Their use of color, tastefully adding pops of reds oranges and yellows in the space-scapes, added a level of depth to the otherwise blue and black-toned story, and the full page/dialogue-less pages of landscape were definitely my favorite. Although the line art was simple, the expressiveness of the characters came through loud and clear across all the pages, clearly emphasizing the emotions the characters are feeling in the scenes.
As for the characters themselves, I loved Mia and Grace, their young love was dramatic and fraught with tension, yet also filled with so much longing and angst. The dual timeline storytelling was a little bit confusing at first, but once I began to piece the story together, it was easy to become hooked into the story and it's outcome.
The saturation in sapphic couples throughout the story cannot be understated, I truly do not believe there is a single hetero couple in this entirely story and you love to see it. My only critique would be in the emotional transition of the characters, it felt like the characters so easily swapped between emotions and motivations, and the abrupt change definitely lent itself to rocky transitions between scene changes. But overall, this was a highly enjoyable graphic novel, and one I'd recommend to lovers of sci-fi stories featuring pining lesbians in space.
As for the characters themselves, I loved Mia and Grace, their young love was dramatic and fraught with tension, yet also filled with so much longing and angst. The dual timeline storytelling was a little bit confusing at first, but once I began to piece the story together, it was easy to become hooked into the story and it's outcome.
The saturation in sapphic couples throughout the story cannot be understated, I truly do not believe there is a single hetero couple in this entirely story and you love to see it. My only critique would be in the emotional transition of the characters, it felt like the characters so easily swapped between emotions and motivations, and the abrupt change definitely lent itself to rocky transitions between scene changes. But overall, this was a highly enjoyable graphic novel, and one I'd recommend to lovers of sci-fi stories featuring pining lesbians in space.
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
My skin is clear, my crops are thriving, life is good again.
Reading this webcomic might have been the best decision I made so far this year. On A Sunbeam is such a wonderful, beautiful, diverse, funny, heartbreaking, GAY story and I loved every panel of it.
The art style is so stunning I want to print everything out and hang it on my wall. I don't really read webcomics or comics in general so this style feels kinda new to me but everything about this is perfect and you should read it.
Reading this webcomic might have been the best decision I made so far this year. On A Sunbeam is such a wonderful, beautiful, diverse, funny, heartbreaking, GAY story and I loved every panel of it.
The art style is so stunning I want to print everything out and hang it on my wall. I don't really read webcomics or comics in general so this style feels kinda new to me but everything about this is perfect and you should read it.
3.5 The art was pretty gorgeous, especially the colors. Liked that the storyline shifted in time and the world building was interesting but not superlative. Nice that it was super queer but I was never fully invested in either he characters or the plot.