srmilesauthor's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic graphic novel. I usually don't read graphic novels, but this world is so immersive. Scare City looks like a bombed out South LA on planet with two suns. Everyone is young, exiled and the slang is a mix of Hindi, Portuguese, Chinese and more. It's great.
ketallpot's review against another edition
3.0
Interested world building and very colorful characters.
hidinginstacks's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars.
Wanted to love this, but ultimately didn't. The worldbuilding is SUPERB and characters are VIBRANT AF. But the story just...lost me. & I love gang shit. So idk. Not giving up on this because I feel it has a lot to offer, but the first volume doesn't sell it for me just yet.
Also, the art reminds me of San Andreas, which is dope. The whole story is GTA-reminiscent, actually. I just wish it was fleshed out a bit more.
Wanted to love this, but ultimately didn't. The worldbuilding is SUPERB and characters are VIBRANT AF. But the story just...lost me. & I love gang shit. So idk. Not giving up on this because I feel it has a lot to offer, but the first volume doesn't sell it for me just yet.
Also, the art reminds me of San Andreas, which is dope. The whole story is GTA-reminiscent, actually. I just wish it was fleshed out a bit more.
lanagailani's review against another edition
2.0
I love the diversity, but I could not figure out enough of what was going on in this first volume to describe more than the setting to another person. Perhaps it just needed to break in a different place, but I want to have more of a grasp of the plot at this point.
bluehairedlibrarian's review against another edition
1.0
Nothing about this book made any sense. Characters were thrown at you without any introductions and often so quickly that it was difficult to even understand who was who. Some would only be there for a couple of panels and then disappear completely only to show up in the book's "index" claiming they were much more important. This could have been an interesting take on a scifi prison planet post-apocalyptic gang war, but it feels like the authors had far too many ideas and didn't realize that they needed a way to introduce them in a coherent way that wasn't an explanation at the BACK of the book.
Don't ask me what happened. I'm not entirely sure I know.
Don't ask me what happened. I'm not entirely sure I know.
harpoonholly's review against another edition
3.0
Disjointed, but that's the intent. Good hook and good art. I think you have to read all three to get the premise, then maybe will understand the whole.
vylotte's review against another edition
2.0
In the not-too-distant future, young poor criminals are shipped to a secret off-world mining colony to work and fend for themselves. Gangs inevitably form and chaos reigns. I enjoyed seeing the diverse cast and the art was very evocative, but the story was confusing and there was just too much going on, with a new person introduced in almost every panel it seemed. It felt like reading bursts of machine gun fire exposition. Also, yes there was a lot of diversity, but it seemed way too stereotypical to place them in the gang/violence setting, which undoes the progress imo.
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