Reviews

Beanworld Volume 4: Hoka Hoka Burb'l Burb'l by Jennifer L. Holm, Larry Marder

mschlat's review against another edition

4.0

This is a volume that raises many more questions than it answers. In part, that's expected --- a typical plot in Beanworld isn't a crisis for some individual, it's an exploration into just how one piece of this very strange world works. Also, Marder makes it clear that we're approaching a change in Beanworld (as we start the "Summer Saga"), and that alterations and new experiences will be coming fast and furious. But, as a result, it's hard to review this as a book in itself. I shared the frustration of many of the characters as they struggled to understand what was going on (and there's a trippy transcendence sequence that I think I'm just misreading).

Still, I'm just very happy to get new Beanworld, and I'm hoping the next volume appears soon.

loonyboi's review against another edition

5.0

I grew up reading Beanworld in its first incarnation from Eclipse. The final issue came out when I was all of 15. I read and re-read all of those over and over again hoping that some day new books would come out. And sure enough, a brand new volume came out when my daughter was just learning to read. So we read through them all together (several times, actually). But then another break.

Finally we have a new volume, and it's just as good as all the others! Sure, it doesn't answer many questions, and it raises new ones, and that's just what I love about Beanworld. And so does my daughter, who's now nine years old. She'd read this twice before I had a chance to start it.

I love Beanworld. If it takes another seven years for a new book, then so be it. I'll be waiting.