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hounded's review against another edition
fast-paced
3.25
Very interesting concept and visually unique! I love the idea of the story itself but it felt a bit too actiony for my taste for what story it was doing but I still enjoyed it. The art style is very very cool! I have not seen anything like it before! The pencil texture and almost like old yellowing pages vibe it had made me feel very disturbed at times. There's one drawing in particular that actually made me feel so viscerally uncomfortable that I actually set the book down for a couple minutes before I could continue.
I think my biggest problem is that the story started to feel very rushed because it was so short and I believe it would have benefited from more! I wanted more dreams and less action hero
The concept of the government using dreams for advertising then on a bigger scale war. Is an incredible concept but I feel that this book really lacked more. Suspence in that regard it kind of felt tacked on and wasn't a super good way to keep the plot entertaining
That being said though I did still enjoy it and love the art style! Plus an open ended ending was very fun to mull over the story some more!
I think my biggest problem is that the story started to feel very rushed because it was so short and I believe it would have benefited from more! I wanted more dreams and less action hero
That being said though I did still enjoy it and love the art style! Plus an open ended ending was very fun to mull over the story some more!
thomasgoddard's review against another edition
2.0
Another comiXology Original. This one was a bit better than the last.
You know sometimes you experience a piece of media and you're just like... this is clearly just a shoe-horned plot to fit a creator's mad ideas for visuals.
Yeah, that's what this felt like.
And it might have been great if it toned down the creepy plot and really got to grips with these spectacular ideas.
I know it comes from a sort of urban legend. The man in the dream. A sort of collective experience of a unifying figure with undefined motives... But after that initial concept falls away, we're not left with much.
But loving the visuals means that it gets at least two stars.
You know sometimes you experience a piece of media and you're just like... this is clearly just a shoe-horned plot to fit a creator's mad ideas for visuals.
Yeah, that's what this felt like.
And it might have been great if it toned down the creepy plot and really got to grips with these spectacular ideas.
I know it comes from a sort of urban legend. The man in the dream. A sort of collective experience of a unifying figure with undefined motives... But after that initial concept falls away, we're not left with much.
But loving the visuals means that it gets at least two stars.
craigmaxwell's review against another edition
4.0
Fantastic concept - I think there could be endless opportunities with it. Dreams are something should be explored more.
This novel is like a mix of flatliners and inception with a graphic designer designing dreams.
It throws out some interesting concepts of exploring our dreams and how our brains sometimes solve our problems that our conscious minds can’t. Also throws up how our dreams are a private, untouched landscape, probably the only place where we aren’t being marketed at.
For example imagine us all plugging ourselves into a system before we go to sleep where our dreams are monitored and we are marketed at.
Would love this graphic novel to be explored more as I think the author is really onto something here, with the illustration style being so distinctive and slightly disturbing making it all come together.
This novel is like a mix of flatliners and inception with a graphic designer designing dreams.
It throws out some interesting concepts of exploring our dreams and how our brains sometimes solve our problems that our conscious minds can’t. Also throws up how our dreams are a private, untouched landscape, probably the only place where we aren’t being marketed at.
For example imagine us all plugging ourselves into a system before we go to sleep where our dreams are monitored and we are marketed at.
Would love this graphic novel to be explored more as I think the author is really onto something here, with the illustration style being so distinctive and slightly disturbing making it all come together.
jessseadoesstuff's review
4.0
3.5/5 but 100% worth rounding up to four stars. I adore the artwork in this. The art in the dreams takes on a different style that keeps changing the reality of the book. Story could be a little tighter but absolutely worth a read. I'll be thinking about this one for awhile.
whogivesabook's review
2.0
Another comiXology Original. This one was a bit better than the last.
You know sometimes you experience a piece of media and you're just like... this is clearly just a shoe-horned plot to fit a creator's mad ideas for visuals.
Yeah, that's what this felt like.
And it might have been great if it toned down the creepy plot and really got to grips with these spectacular ideas.
I know it comes from a sort of urban legend. The man in the dream. A sort of collective experience of a unifying figure with undefined motives... But after that initial concept falls away, we're not left with much.
But loving the visuals means that it gets at least two stars.
You know sometimes you experience a piece of media and you're just like... this is clearly just a shoe-horned plot to fit a creator's mad ideas for visuals.
Yeah, that's what this felt like.
And it might have been great if it toned down the creepy plot and really got to grips with these spectacular ideas.
I know it comes from a sort of urban legend. The man in the dream. A sort of collective experience of a unifying figure with undefined motives... But after that initial concept falls away, we're not left with much.
But loving the visuals means that it gets at least two stars.
zomvi's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
This starts off really interesting, with many members of a community all seeing the same man in their dreams, but the second half and ending devolves into a rushed, cliché dream-within-a-dream and a what's-really-real scenario that I did not find compelling AT ALL.
csongi's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
I definitely need to give this one another read. I feel like l missed something... But I still enjoyed the process of reading it, hah.