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A review by nerdinthelibrary
Mad Max: Fury Road: The Prelude to the Blockbuster Film! by George Miller
2.0
content warnings: violence, murder, rape, abortion
Before I start this review you should know that Mad Max: Fury Road is quite possibly my favourite movie, or at least in my top three. Just so you can understand how much it breaks my heart that I (for the most part) didn't like this graphic novel.
I'll get into more details on each section in a second, but there are two general points I have first:
1) The art style really didn't gel with me. I'm not saying it was bad because objectively speaking, it's not, it's just really not my kind of style and that made it harder for me to engage.
2) With very little exception, this entire graphic novel was super unnecessary. Not a criticism, just an observation.
NUX & IMMORTAN JOE
This was my least favourite of the entire thing so it's really unfortunate that it was the first one. I don't really understand what happened as it kept switching back and forth between Nux and Joe, and it was so boring I don't even care.
FURIOSA
This was a really unnecessary story - the entire thing is Furiosa deciding to take the wives - but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked that more focus was on the wives rather than Furiosa, and seeing them bond cleared my skin and watered my crops. In particular when the Dag defended Cheedo because I highkey ship them.
MAD MAX #1
Most of this was just a recap of the first three movies and I'm not gonna lie, I skimmed most of it. The stuff at the end was interesting, though.
MAD MAX #2
Easily the best of the entire graphic novel. It gives you context for the child Max keeps seeing in his PTSD flashbacks in the movie, and just overall has a really nice story that had me genuinely tearing up.
THE WAR RIG
I've gotta be real with you: I skimmed literally all of this and I have no regrets, it was so uninteresting.
Even if you're a die-hard Fury Road fan (like me), I wouldn't recommend reading this, or at least not all the way through. If you really want to read it, only read Furiosa's and Max's parts.
Before I start this review you should know that Mad Max: Fury Road is quite possibly my favourite movie, or at least in my top three. Just so you can understand how much it breaks my heart that I (for the most part) didn't like this graphic novel.
I'll get into more details on each section in a second, but there are two general points I have first:
1) The art style really didn't gel with me. I'm not saying it was bad because objectively speaking, it's not, it's just really not my kind of style and that made it harder for me to engage.
2) With very little exception, this entire graphic novel was super unnecessary. Not a criticism, just an observation.
NUX & IMMORTAN JOE
This was my least favourite of the entire thing so it's really unfortunate that it was the first one. I don't really understand what happened as it kept switching back and forth between Nux and Joe, and it was so boring I don't even care.
FURIOSA
This was a really unnecessary story - the entire thing is Furiosa deciding to take the wives - but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked that more focus was on the wives rather than Furiosa, and seeing them bond cleared my skin and watered my crops. In particular when the Dag defended Cheedo because I highkey ship them.
MAD MAX #1
Most of this was just a recap of the first three movies and I'm not gonna lie, I skimmed most of it. The stuff at the end was interesting, though.
MAD MAX #2
Easily the best of the entire graphic novel. It gives you context for the child Max keeps seeing in his PTSD flashbacks in the movie, and just overall has a really nice story that had me genuinely tearing up.
THE WAR RIG
I've gotta be real with you: I skimmed literally all of this and I have no regrets, it was so uninteresting.
Even if you're a die-hard Fury Road fan (like me), I wouldn't recommend reading this, or at least not all the way through. If you really want to read it, only read Furiosa's and Max's parts.