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A review by alaspooriorek
One Trick Pony by Nathan Hale
3.0
There's a whole lot going on in this graphic novel and not all of it is good. One Trick Pony begins when Strata, a young girl who belongs to a tribe of people working to save technology from the metal gobbling Pipers, finds a robot horse and an underground technology cache. Unfortunately, the cache was too close to a Piper "hot zone", so now Strata, her brother, friend, and a "feral" are stuck running for their lives . . . sort of.
There was a lot that I liked about this graphic novel. The general concept is pretty cool. It's like a tech adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 where members of the caravan strive to save parts of human knowledge from being destroyed forever, but also gives readers a head strong protagonist with a cool "animal" companion.
Unfortunately, there's even more I don't like here. The plot seems really rushed. At some point I began actively wishing for Inby to die because he was so freaking annoying. What story we do get, isn't all that fleshed out. I think Hale probably could have had a much better if the book was about 50 pages longer. As it is, there's no time to focus on any one character (and there are lots, believe me) or even care all that much about the back story of the Pipers(which turns out to be stupid). The whole vibe of this graphic novel balances upon being post apocalyptic, yet still futuristic and it just doesn't work for me with what's given.
I'm giving One Trick Pony a three out of five.
There was a lot that I liked about this graphic novel. The general concept is pretty cool. It's like a tech adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 where members of the caravan strive to save parts of human knowledge from being destroyed forever, but also gives readers a head strong protagonist with a cool "animal" companion.
Unfortunately, there's even more I don't like here. The plot seems really rushed. At some point I began actively wishing for Inby to die because he was so freaking annoying. What story we do get, isn't all that fleshed out. I think Hale probably could have had a much better if the book was about 50 pages longer. As it is, there's no time to focus on any one character (and there are lots, believe me) or even care all that much about the back story of the Pipers(which turns out to be stupid). The whole vibe of this graphic novel balances upon being post apocalyptic, yet still futuristic and it just doesn't work for me with what's given.
I'm giving One Trick Pony a three out of five.