You Must Take Part In Revolution

My Thoughts
I read this for my Graphic Novel Book Club at my local comic book store. It’s the first book by Badiuco – an artist and activist currently living in exile in Australia and Melissa Chan – a foreign correspondant. For the positives, I liked the artwork in the book. It felt very film noir with the black and white images with some yellow or red as accents. The yellow and red come into use to symbolize various things depending on the page, but I loved how it could go from being just a subtle accent color to expressing chaos, violence, loneliness, and the feeling of being watched. What I didn’t like was the pacing of the story. The time jumps were awkward, the changing of scenes between characters was disjointed, and there were times it read more like an article from a newspaper than a novel or comic book. I’m going to put this under “First Book Syndrome” where this team-up is working together for the first time and hasn’t figured out how to mesh quite well yet. But I have a feeling once they do, it will be a great story to enjoy.