Varon, Sara - Robot Dreams
Fri, Dec. 28th, 2007 02:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterA dog gets a mail order robot and assembles it; the two go off together and have adventures. Along the way, dog and robot are separated.
I have no idea how to sum this up. It's a wordless comic, and on the larger scale of things nothing happens. But at the same time, everything happens in the course of a few months -- friends are lost and found again, people are changed, lives go on.
I love how sweet the art is, how Varon pays attention to all the little details, how she doesn't forget that her characters are dogs and ducks and anteaters, albeit anthropomorphized ones. And I just love how the ending isn't what I would have expected, but it's perfectly right.
Definitely recommended, particularly if you liked the movie The Iron Giant (I haven't read the story) -- and not just because the two are about robots! They've both got this old-fashioned but not necessarily nostalgic tone, and both of them are about friendships.
I have no idea how to sum this up. It's a wordless comic, and on the larger scale of things nothing happens. But at the same time, everything happens in the course of a few months -- friends are lost and found again, people are changed, lives go on.
I love how sweet the art is, how Varon pays attention to all the little details, how she doesn't forget that her characters are dogs and ducks and anteaters, albeit anthropomorphized ones. And I just love how the ending isn't what I would have expected, but it's perfectly right.
Definitely recommended, particularly if you liked the movie The Iron Giant (I haven't read the story) -- and not just because the two are about robots! They've both got this old-fashioned but not necessarily nostalgic tone, and both of them are about friendships.
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Fri, Dec. 28th, 2007 05:28 pm (UTC)Added to my Wishlist, thanks.
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Sun, Dec. 30th, 2007 11:48 pm (UTC)