Joe Henderson (3)Reseñas

A phenomenally unique graphic novel! The whole concept of living in a zero-g world makes such an exciting premise for a story, and Willa is the ideal main character to take the lead: she’s funny, brave, and curious, and she makes me very eager to see where the series goes from here. (Also that ending had me

*A Thank you to Edelweiss and The publishers for allowing me to read this book. This is my honest and unbiased review*

Hello Fellow Readers,

I feel like it's been a while since I've read a comic or graphic novel but I was in the mood so I decided to Shadecraft would be the perfect to reintroduce myself to the genre. In this we meet Zadie a moody teenager whose brother is in a coma after a car accident. Zadie is convinced that the shadows are out to get her, but we soon find out it’s not some sinister being sending shadows after Zadie but Shadecraft being wielded by Zadie herself. The idea behind Shadecraft is pretty interesting and the power description is very cool and I would think very useful.

The story itself is just okay, I was interested at first but then I found myself just shaking my head at some parts thinking would this actually happen? I also felt like this first arc was a bit rushed, especially the ending. Zadie is a pretty good character and so is her brother but other than that no one else was that interesting. I am not sure I would continue reading the next one but volume one does set it up to where I am a little interesting in how it will go.

Overall, an okay graphic novel that just didn’t capture my attention but may capture yours.

What a cool idea, and I love the art. Imagining a world with sudden low-g is amazing.

If you are looking for a non-superhero action/adventure comic, this is a really fun series. Willa is so great, and I love the world-building.

*A Thank you to Edelweiss and The publishers for allowing me to read this book. This is my honest and unbiased review*

Hello Fellow Readers,

I feel like it's been a while since I've read a comic or graphic novel but I was in the mood so I decided to Shadecraft would be the perfect to reintroduce myself to the genre. In this we meet Zadie a moody teenager whose brother is in a coma after a car accident. Zadie is convinced that the shadows are out to get her, but we soon find out it’s not some sinister being sending shadows after Zadie but Shadecraft being wielded by Zadie herself. The idea behind Shadecraft is pretty interesting and the power description is very cool and I would think very useful.

The story itself is just okay, I was interested at first but then I found myself just shaking my head at some parts thinking would this actually happen? I also felt like this first arc was a bit rushed, especially the ending. Zadie is a pretty good character and so is her brother but other than that no one else was that interesting. I am not sure I would continue reading the next one but volume one does set it up to where I am a little interesting in how it will go.

Overall, an okay graphic novel that just didn’t capture my attention but may capture yours.

It was excellent but it left me with so many questions.... ok so maybe that's a good thing... and a huge part of the reason why I've already ordered the 2nd volume...

The cast of characters is diverse and lovable, the art work is stunning and the scenes are perfectly fitted to the story.

I devoured this book and cant wait for more!

It was excellent but it left me with so many questions.... ok so maybe that's a good thing... and a huge part of the reason why I've already ordered the 2nd volume...

The cast of characters is diverse and lovable, the art work is stunning and the scenes are perfectly fitted to the story.

I devoured this book and cant wait for more!

This holds promise. There's an interesting premise with some intriguing machinations and Evil Corporation. But the world building... Yeah. Thinking about the logistics of everything made my head hurt because obviously, if gravity just ceased working one day and everything that wasn't attached to the Earth would float into space, how is there atmosphere??? How is rain (depicted as a giant floating water blob) possible? NOTHING MAKES SENSE.

And despite it all, I couldn't get my disbelief to suspend enough to fully buy into the story.

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Having realized last volume that the author was not taking a hard science fiction approach, I tried to read this one with the mindset that it was pure fantasy, and even then I couldn't wrap my head around the unlikelihood of the events as it descended into super cheesy, pure bugfuck YA dystopia.

Heavy on the bugs.

Seriously, I think I got whiplash from the nonstop betrayals, secret reveals, and shifting alliances as Willa flees Chicago on her quest to fix gravity. To do this she needs to reach . . . um . . . Kansas City?! Well, that's a road down which I will not follow her.

A high-concept book -- gravity stops working!! -- that doesn't fully explore the implications of its premise, content to reduce the story to a bad rich man trying to maintain the new dystopian status quo in order to protect his profits. So of course he must destroy the only man who could fix gravity, the widower father of our spirited protagonist, a young woman who has grown up without gravity and yearns to leave Chicago and explore the wide world, despite how dangerous that might be. (Has Disney optioned this?)

This is dumb sci-fi. The world looks pretty normal except for all the floating people trying not to fall to their deaths into the sky. There are still schools and nightclubs, for instance. But I'm pretty sure that with little to no gravity, just to nitpick, there would be no air for the characters to breathe in their classrooms or water to splash into their alcoholic beverages. But no, the air is fine, and as for water it just floats around the sky in big blobs of course because only solid things like people and cars can make it to orbit.

I probably should stop here, but I have the next volume on hand, so I'm going to read it anyway and see if things improve.

Really interesting premise, and I like the characters. There's even a fat character, and at least in this volume no jokes or gross comments about her weight. I'm definitely going to read more. Note for school visits: there's a classroom scene where they talk about safe sex in terms of gravity and a line about the possibility of getting pregnant from airborn sperm. But it's not on page explicit anything, so probably still ok? I haven't decided if I'll bring it to our 8th graders yet.

Also, the creative ways characters develop to deal with their weightlessness reminded me of the video game Mirror's Edge.

The first two volumes were enjoyable enough but I lost patience with this one. The story moves so fast that there's no time to feel anything and even for YA the writing feels immature.

This was cute and the setting and plot are interesting enough, but the pacing is way too fast. There's a major character death that has basically no impact because the story gives you NO time to breathe.

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Beautiful art and a concept that sounds very interesting. However the execution fell flat for me. The story seemed a bit run of the mill and at least in this volume, the possibilities presented by the setting didnt seem to really be used to their potential.½

Ehh. I still enjoyed this story, the art style is great, I love that there's a disabled important character and the Dad clearly deals with PTSD. I saw some reviews mention worldbuilding loopholes, but honestly I didn't even notice those while reading, so it wasn't distracting. What did make me cringe is that Willa is about to get into trouble that she could have easily avoided if she bothered to ask her dad first. Still, overall a good story.

One day, gravity on earth suddenly became a fraction of what it is now. Twenty years later, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality.

The concept of this story is just amazing. Living in a world with such low gravity is both awesome and terrifying, and that is shown already in this short issue. I loved the little details, like kids being bound to their parents by leashes so they don't fly off into the sky. I'm excited to see what's next.

(Points off for the fridged mother pretty early on.)

Skyward Volume 1 from Joe Henderson is a very nice case of story and art complementing each other. This is usually found to be true in dark works and this more open style works very well and provides a reading experience which is nearly weightless.

The story can easily be understood as a statement about science gone wrong, about profiting off of mishaps and perpetuating the mishap for money and power, and/or about the personal price we pay when we feel responsible for something that affects others. Yet it is not preachy and these "statements" can easily be ignored and the story enjoyed as nothing more than s story.

I would recommend this to readers who enjoy graphic novels but sometimes want something that has some light in it, not just various shades of darkness. Much of the darkness here is from the narrative itself, like any good novel, graphic or otherwise, provides.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.

Is "Skyward" my new favourite comic? It just might be. Willa is a young adult who lives in a world with low gravity. What does this mean? Well, for one, everyone's floating. If you step out into the air without a tether or something to keep you down, you'll be flushed out into space. This also means you can carry really heavy things like they're weightless, and anyone confined to the ground previously is able to move on their own again, like for instance, someone with no legs. Not only do we get to see the world she knows, but we get to see the exact moment when it happened, with her father.

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