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knittingtipsy's review against another edition
4.0
Intensely beautiful and sad tale of a young boy coming of age as a hobo.
neven's review against another edition
4.0
This is more of a 3.5 for me but I feel bad beating up on a book that's made professionally and sides with the angels. It's a rambling, disjointed account of a young boy's experiences as a hobo during the Great Depression—a story that ends up both fascinating and a bit paint-by-numbers. Train-hopping, bulls with billy clubs, communism and anti-communism, bean cans and newsboy hats. It's all sincere and filled with shades of compelling stories, but it never really gripped me. I partly blame the intrusive and not whole necessary narration, written in an overly florid style ill-fitting the rest of the book.
Dan Burr's art is very good illustration, but it's a fairly pedestrian take on the comic book medium. Much of it simply illustrates the plot more than it supplants or provides it.
Anyway, I'm an asshole for not absolutely loving this, I get it.
Dan Burr's art is very good illustration, but it's a fairly pedestrian take on the comic book medium. Much of it simply illustrates the plot more than it supplants or provides it.
Anyway, I'm an asshole for not absolutely loving this, I get it.
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