Milton's Dreams

author: Ricard
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.00
book published:
rating: 1
read at: 2018/10/14
date added: 2018/10/14
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Milton's Dreams' by Ricard with illustrations by Fejard Mael is a sort of depressing slog through the dust bowl.

Young Billy sees something he shouldn't have and gets a beating and a maimed hand to ensure his silence. Years later, his family is struggling. Crops are failing and there isn't a lot of food. Billy has a large and gentle older brother and two younger siblings, and he's kind of a bully. He convinces older brother Milton that the person who maimed Billy needs to be killed. Milton dreams about it, and wakes up to find that it happened. But was it really Milton who did it?

The story is not completed in this volume, but it is so dreary that I have no interest in finding out what happened. The art has a weird shaky line style and bland coloring (to match the surroundings). There is probably a good story that could be told with these characters in this setting, but this wasn't it.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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