Middlewest, Book One

Really great start to a story. Lots to dig into here. Love the art style and the talking fox alone sold me.

Uneven. Very bright, angular, childlike art depicting a technologically-advanced rurality. A child protagonist and his talking fox friend, fleeing an abusive father, and battling his own manifestation of anger - which appears as a transformation into a tornado monster.

Middlewest was an interesting little graphic novel and I understood like 10% of it. I thought it a bit weird that they just jump in with the fox? No explanations as to why he speaks or how he knows the main character. Does he even have a name? I don't even know if I like the fox. He seems mysterious, as if he knows more than he's letting on.

I did like the story – the main character was cute in that ‘pick him up and squish him type of way.' The other characters were fun to read about – except his dad. He's a bad dad. Unfortunately, nice graphics and fun characters aren't enough. But I still want a fox.