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A review by hsienhsien27
Young Terrorists, #1: Pierce The Veil by Amancay Nahuelpan, Matt Pizzolo
3.0
This was received from Netgalley for an honest review
This is a pretty short graphic novel, 80 pages is a little unusual for a graphic novel. It’s not short enough to be considered a novella, according to what the author wrote in the last few pages. Since it’s short, my opinion or review will be too. The story takes a pretty long time to form, you don’t really get what’s happening until the last few pages. There’s two perspectives, the one on the cover is one of the main characters and her father dies, then there’s some explosion, the principal finds weapons of mass destruction her locker, she gets arrested, and is released years later as a buff and scarred up warrior. Then the second perspective is some guy who’s poor and abandoned somewhere and for a reason I can’t remember, he blows a restaurant up, and gets captured by one of the main character’s buddies. Judging by the name of the graphic novel and what I’ve read, it seems to take place in a dystopian world where the two main characters have to fight and use violence to show their displeasure towards a government they want to destroy. Capitalism is bad, blow everyone up. Seriously.
This graphic novel was honestly kind of forgettable. The plot took too long to build up, I understand that this is a series so it’s expected, but come on really? It’s so vague. All I can remember is some flesh being torn and some gore. it’s also a bizarre Sci-Fi filled with sex and nudity. The main character who is the girl on the cover literally did a Mike Tyson in one of her fighting matches, and she swallowed the flesh, because “That’s so brutal.” I was also disappointed to find this main character wasn’t a Woman of Color or specifically a Black woman. I know I don’t have the best vision, but I saw the dreads, and I was like “Wow, support comics with Black women as main characters, representation for all the Blerds!” But it turned out she’s just your typical White or racially ambiguous, most likely White, main character, and she just has “dreads,” because she doesn’t comb her hair… And of course the only Black dude in this comic, one of her buddies that kidnapped one of the main characters, is hyper-masculine to the point where he’s the quiet tough guy that will tear you to shreds, a killing machine. Completely dehumanizing.
But yet, I’m still somewhat interested to read the rest of the series, because it does have some promise, it’s unfair to judge a whole series on 80 pages.
Rating: 3/5
This is a pretty short graphic novel, 80 pages is a little unusual for a graphic novel. It’s not short enough to be considered a novella, according to what the author wrote in the last few pages. Since it’s short, my opinion or review will be too. The story takes a pretty long time to form, you don’t really get what’s happening until the last few pages. There’s two perspectives, the one on the cover is one of the main characters and her father dies, then there’s some explosion, the principal finds weapons of mass destruction her locker, she gets arrested, and is released years later as a buff and scarred up warrior. Then the second perspective is some guy who’s poor and abandoned somewhere and for a reason I can’t remember, he blows a restaurant up, and gets captured by one of the main character’s buddies. Judging by the name of the graphic novel and what I’ve read, it seems to take place in a dystopian world where the two main characters have to fight and use violence to show their displeasure towards a government they want to destroy. Capitalism is bad, blow everyone up. Seriously.
This graphic novel was honestly kind of forgettable. The plot took too long to build up, I understand that this is a series so it’s expected, but come on really? It’s so vague. All I can remember is some flesh being torn and some gore. it’s also a bizarre Sci-Fi filled with sex and nudity. The main character who is the girl on the cover literally did a Mike Tyson in one of her fighting matches, and she swallowed the flesh, because “That’s so brutal.” I was also disappointed to find this main character wasn’t a Woman of Color or specifically a Black woman. I know I don’t have the best vision, but I saw the dreads, and I was like “Wow, support comics with Black women as main characters, representation for all the Blerds!” But it turned out she’s just your typical White or racially ambiguous, most likely White, main character, and she just has “dreads,” because she doesn’t comb her hair… And of course the only Black dude in this comic, one of her buddies that kidnapped one of the main characters, is hyper-masculine to the point where he’s the quiet tough guy that will tear you to shreds, a killing machine. Completely dehumanizing.
But yet, I’m still somewhat interested to read the rest of the series, because it does have some promise, it’s unfair to judge a whole series on 80 pages.
Rating: 3/5