Fights

Heartfelt and real. I appreciated the framing story of Joel as an adult now asking his son about a fight. I liked his visual style and it marries really well to his text. Fights has real appeal for upper MS and HS, get multiple copies.

Joel Christian Gill's Fights gravitates toward a cartoonish style, but it's done with some skill. There are lots of nice illustrative details throughout and the colors really pop.

I absolutely love the idea for this story, and at times I was very much pulled in, but the overall arch felt very disjointed. Some events in the story happen without explanation (ie, what happened to Mr. Charles?), and the pivotal moments in the protagonist's journey to overcome violence didn't carry the weight I'd hoped for. It felt like the author had more he wanted to express, but perhaps wasn't able or allowed to channel.