Drones

author: Chris Lewis
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.00
book published: 2015
rating: 1
read at: 2016/06/13
date added: 2016/06/13
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Drones' is just a mess of a graphic novel. The characters in the story run around and are confused, and I, as the reader, fully understand their confusion.

For some reason, in the near future, Las Vegas has decided to create a terrorism-themed hotel. A couple of drone pilots find themselves at this resort and can't tell who are the real terrorists and who are the actors. The confusion really starts at the beginning of the book where the soldiers conduct a real drone strike half a world away, then the people they thought they hit show up in Las Vegas. It's as if Afghanistan and Las Vegas are next to each other. That's just one of the problems with this book.

It's supposed to be satirical, but it just isn't very funny. It's crude in lots of ways. There are tourists re-enacting orgy scenes that look like Abu Ghraib. There are weapons that look like grotesquely sized sex toys. It all seems like it's supposed to be a joke, but no character is sympathetic enough to be the straight man, and the punchline gets lost in the overly confusing plot. I'm not actually sure why it's called 'Drones' except that there are some brief appearances by drones. The concept sounded interesting, but the execution just didn't work for me.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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