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Granted, I read an ARC, so stuff will change before it's officially released in July, but I found it to be quite the enjoyable read. The pacing is a little off from time to time, between him as a boy, then him as a man. Also, halfway through, the color stops and it's just black and white, but I figure it's because it's a galley. Overall it was a good story about a boy in search of a family and the challenges he encounters along the way. Can't wait to see the final product!

I have no idea who the audience is for this, but clearly it isn't me. Everything about this comic makes me wildly uncomfortable, it feels really forced and discontinuous, from the mishmash of 80s adventure plot points to the pastel pallette.. Maybe it's the way the characters don't have eyes or any way of making expression at all that throws me--in cases like this I expect the dialogue to fill in and provide some emotion. Some parts of the art are really detailed, some seem incomplete.This feels...

A tiny motorcycle—I was hoping it was the main character—is in telepathic communication with a boy who has the power of ten men and even survives a direct blast from a tank. He has to save them all, according to his nightmare. He doesn’t want to fight, but has to, and eventually becomes the ruler’s new son. (Don’t ask what happened to the old one.)Fifteen years later he’s basically in charge and wants to go on a quest, no matter how many of his soldiers die. Thirty-four years later, the world ha...

just read it like a silent film: skip the dialog, look at the images. something like geoff darrow crossed with moebius. story? who needs a story to make sense here. if you want a story read a short story. just the art is cool. story told in images...

I received a free copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.I didn't much care for this graphic novel. I found the story confusing and wasn't quite able to figure out what exactly it was supposed to be about. I also didn't love the art and found it hard to follow at times. It was just not for me.

Motro is a story with a broad scope, an legendary feel and an ambitious reach, telling the tale of young boy with an astounding strength who is seeking his place in the world. Each chapter looks at a different stage in his life, constructing a heroic chronicle through these small slithers, as a destiny begins to take shape. The world itself is somewhat like ours, but mashes up a fantasy setting with a post-apocalyptic feel for something decidedly off-kilter and strange, where characters range fr...

'Motro Vol. 1' by Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas and Ryan Hill is the kind of book I finish and wonder what I just read. In this case, I enjoyed the strange journey.This volume has three stories in the life of a strange man with superhuman strength named Motro. In the first, he is a young boy looking for his father. He is mocked and bullied to the point where he uses his strength to gruesome effect. Then he fights a prince and becomes a favorite son of a ruler. It's a world of strange inventions....

An immersive enough world that I wanted to keep reading but it was weaved together quite clumsily and the plot almost felt clunky.

Feels more 70s/80s European, in its style of disjointed storytelling, like a Metal Hurlant and/or Moebius strip. I quickly accepted this, went with the flow and was therefore able to really enjoy the wonderful world of Motro. I already was a fan of Fariñas' hyper-detailed style, and this is a prime example of that.

Received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.There are some illustrators who are great writers, and there are some writers who can draw very well. This is not the case here. Motro is visually very cool, with a sketchy-punky-pastel aesthetic. Motro himself is a recognizable MC. There are some great concepts thrown in the mix. There are living tanks and motorcycles that grow from babies. The world seems to be the dystopia future of a swords-and-sorcery world. The author appears to have...

Visually very interesting.

I was enthralled by the art. It's this weird mishmash of Moebius, Geof Darrow and Studio Ghilbi. Set in a wild, apocalyptic future filled with frog-wizards and vehicles that communicate via emoji's . It's visually stunning. However the story was mostly incoherent. In broad strokes, the book is about Motro, a boy with the strength of 10 men. Just when you think the book is settling into the story, it'll jump forward several years into a completely unrelated scenario. It's jarring and leaves the r...

Neat art and concepts but the narrative is meh

I wish I could wash my eyes out with bleach. I have absolutely NO idea what I just read. Reading this felt like watching the fever dream of a guy who got high on LSD while playing Dungeons and Dragons and then fell asleep on the table while Game of Thrones played in the background. Literally nothing about this made sense. You’re just thrust into an extremely confusing world, follow a random one dimensional character back and forth in time as a bunch of weird nonsensical stuff happens, there’s ne...

Motro, Volume One by Ulises Farinas et. al. is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in mid-February.Somehow, Motro is nerdy, philosophical, RPG, cute, Mad Max dystopic, and Saturday morning cartoon fun all at once. I immediately gravitated towards its gravelly pastel color schemes, character sensibilities, and anamorphic vehicles that talk in Sims-like emoji bubbles. I will definitely be seeking out more issues of this in the future!

Free copy provided by Netgalley in return for an honest reviewRating: 1 / 5Publication Date: 28th June 2017Review Date: 01st April 2017I decided to pick this up from Netgalley because the cover looked good, and the author is someone who has written for Judge Dredd before, which is one of my favourite franchises, and I demised that this must be pretty good for him to have written it.Oh boy. Don’t judge a comic by it’s cover.This was a mess. There was no discernible story line nor plot, the charac...

Just too bonkers for its own good – a sci-fantasy world, where vehicles speak in pictograms, and things get weirder and weirder – and more and more inconsequential as we go. It might be down to this being a 112 page book and I only got 85 pp on my netgalley file, but I don't think it would ever make any sense.

This is amazing - I’ve always loved Farinas’ art and he’s at his very best here, with a lovely spidery touch to the world building. The story occasionally feels a bit too dense and like you’re reading a four issue précis of a much longer epic, but actually I think that oddness helps. It feels like a fever dream of a comic, with influences from Moebius, Jodorowsky, 2000AD, Dungeon and many more. It looks amazing and all the better for disorienting the reader by dropping them in media res. It’s qu...

First off, full disclosure: I got a free ARC of this book from NetGalley in return for an honest review.I admit this one lost me a bit, but given the rather meta themes of memory, destiny and guiding authors from above, that's probably quite intentional. It'd probably reward a reread or ten.What I did like was what I could follow on a page-by-page basis. Motro is a consciously mythic piece, evoking everything from Norse sagas to Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth; though there are times where it com...