A review by smfields
Displaced Persons by Derek McCulloch, Anthony Peruzzo

2.0

I kind of expected a lot more from this book. The premise and general story structure were really very cool and there were some pretty neat choices in the art. Ultimately though I think it tried to be too many things at once. It was bit confusing in places and the characters and story lacked depth. It might have been better as a limited series or something so that it had more time to explore its world and characters. Also I felt like some of the characters were problematic in the way that they fed into stereotypes and there were a few points in the book where the language made me a bit uncomfortable. I understand that a lot of the story takes place during times when those things were more openly excepted and maybe they were tying to stay authentic to the time, but there are ways contextualize those things and critique them without losing authenticity. I was also hoping for a lot more San Francisco history and culture in the book. It felt rather arbitrary that SF was the setting. There are so many ways that this book could have been amazing and it's a real bummer it wasn't.