Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. 

This one is a short comic book that ilustrates the kind of everyday situations that most of us either have experienced or will experience in the future, either nice situations, sad situations, or that weird time that a random old man sat besides you on the bus and told you his entire life story before arriving to his destination.

While I related to a couple of the situations I found the comic book a bit lacking, both in terms of content and creativity. There's an infinity of experiences that could have been told so I guess it just would have been nice to see the author portray more experiences in general (as the book is very short. You can finish the read in 30 min probably) and also a bit more outside of the “romantic relationship” realm as I felt that was the one that got most of the spotlight. I especially enjoyed the family ones (relationships between parents and children) so it would have been nice to have more of those, but there was also a big missed oportunity to expand on the catalogue of individual experiences (like the stories on the bus/train, our relationship with pets, with our own sadness, with the little things that make us happy, the embarrasing and frustrating everyday moments, etc)

I also felt like the art was underwhelming:
- The colors are very flat and there's basically no shadows, it makes the drawings looks one dimentional, they don't pop out of the page.
- The art style and the color palette are also very safe. Everything is drawn with pretty much the same proportions as in real life, and colored in the same way, so the drawings could have been substituted by photos and it wouldn't have much of a difference.
- As there is no play with the color or the drawings itself it would have been nice to at least have variations in the formating, but every comic had the same 4-koma type of format that, while adecuate and even encouraged for social media (especifically Instagram) leaves a lot to desire in a comic book.

It's a nice enough side read for when you have a little time to kill and don't want to spend much mental energy trying to piece a plot or even to share on social media for it's relatable aspect, but there's not much besides that.