A review by kellylynnthomas
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga

3.0

Meanwhile is a choose-your-own-adventure comic book. It's pretty cool. The cover states there are more than 3,000 possible paths to choose from. I didn't test out that claim, but I did try out quite a few. Some of them took me on radically different story lines, and some of them, not so much. Which is one reason this only gets 3 stars. And while the participatory nature of the book is cool, after awhile it got a little tiring, because you got to some dead ends pretty quickly and you had to root out answers and find secret codes. At times it felt almost more like a video game than a book. If the content/story had been fantastic, that would have been okay. But the story was only so-so. It was pretty standard mad scientist type stuff, so there was only so much work I was willing to do for it.