A review by katievank
Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker

3.0

Struck me as not enough. Would have liked more exploration of any one of the directions they hinted at: anticipation of the mission, astronauts’ personal lives, responses on earth before and during the mission, more details and reflections and reactions of astronauts during the mission, return process and experience after returning to earth - many of these were briefly touched but none were deep enough to really compel me to the story. Even a story as compelling as the first moon landing needs more to hook the audience. It was also very “Rah Rah USA” which I get was the genuine feeling at the time but being not an American that aspect didn’t land for me.
What was there was good, it’s what I felt was missing that caused it to fall a little flat in some areas. I’m also very new to graphic novels as a medium so I can’t say if this is typical for the genre, but it didn’t captivate me or leave me hungry for more whereas a few other graphic novels have.