A review by nadezhda
Around the World by Matt Phelan

1.0

I wanted to love this. While the watercolour is very lovely, there are many instances where the underlying pencil was left, messily, and really distracted from the rest of the image. I found myself not really caring about the story or the way it was written. I also hated how the female characters (of which there are like, 2.5 of them) had very little variation in body type or shape compared to the wide array of male characters, and how their waists seemed to always be emphasized. On the cover - if you can clearly see a woman's ribcage (and it looks like she has two stacked set of ribs???) through her jacket, then that jacket is too thin and too tight, to say nothing of what she's wearing underneath, if anything.