A review by phoenixs
Over the Garden Wall Vol. 1, Volume 1 by Jim Campbell, Amalia Levari

4.0

This lost a star on a second reading because I’m tired of thoughtless tropes with regard to POC characters and them turning into animals. And a reference to someone’s deceased POC sister perhaps being likened to a monkey. I don’t think these were meant maliciously, but I almost wish I had been an editor or consultant in the room who could advise that it might come across as racist to put in these allusions to inhumanity. I think that it was ignorance and attempting to keep the whimsical nature of the story consistent throughout, but geeze. Sometimes writers just really wade right into it with the tropes.