Gorgeous art. Amazing color work. Horrible story. First, it's pretty much all fighting. Bloody, limb-slicing, guts-spilling-out, gory gross fighting. Very cinematic.

All action. Zero character development.

It's also ridiculously hard to follow. We're in Canada. There are First Nations people fighting against a monolithic church-state, mainly Roman Catholic but really just fanatical and bloodthirsty, for who-knows-what reason. In some future that includes people with lots of mutations. No clue how they got them. So for 200 pages there's fighting and dying, and more fighting and dying, and our main character, Little Bird, seems to die at least three times (maybe more) but then she's still there, killing everyone. Something-something her mother, her father (?), her brother, her grandfather — but these are hardly more than labels. There are no relationships here.
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I like a lot of elements of this - characters, concepts, and the incredible artwork - I'm still trying to figure out how cohesive it feels as a story, though. I do find myself wanting to read more of it, though.

The art was more interesting to me than the story on this one. The story just didn’t make much sense and was kind of all over the place. I never really got attached to any part of it or really fully understood what was going on besides just fighting. It kind of becomes like what the MC says at the beginning and the end, more about the fighting than what the fighting is even for. I read a lot of books with fighting and war and even some of favorites include those aspects, but it’s never for the sake of the war and the violence itself, it’s for the characters, the overall story, the world, etc. And so in this case, just reading about fighting for the fighting, it wasn’t that interesting to me. Maybe I’m missing something, so if anyone has any deeper ideas on what’s going on, please drop a comment.

The art was pretty good, but not so mind blowing that I’d bump this review up to 3 stars for that alone without a story that did much for me. I know this book won awards, but this is just my opinion and I’d be more than open to hearing that of others.

The illustrations and colour work in this is stunning, can Matt Hollingsworth colour everything?!

I feel like i need to re read this again. The art is beautiful, but the story is hard to follow.. i am willing to accept that's on me more than the graphic novel, though, lol. Definitely will be on my re read list.

I saw this book in the library and picked it up, curious. Soon I was swept away, and went to sit down to devour it all in one sitting.

On the surface, Little Bird is an action packed gore-fest of violence. Badass characters and psychedelic art draw you into a dystopian world ruled by a caricaturized monster hybrid of all the worst traits of American imperialism and Christianity.
But this book is also about family, indigenous sovereignty, white supremacy, and revolution. Little Bird is a hurricane. It is a political call to action to rise against a Christian death cult. And despite all the violence, war, depravity, and pain--it is also about hope.

A story about a hero vs a tyrranical religious movement should be right up my alley. But somewhere around the second issue, my interest in the story started to wane. The dialogue and narration suggested an epicness in scope that the story didn't really deliver on. The grotesque violence was rendered beautifully by Ian Bertram but it was too over the top for me.

I found no plot point unexpected, no resolution made me happy or angry. I just wasn't invested in the characters. The villains too cartoonishly evil. The protagonists too martryish and magically invincible.

Fans of art that ranges from Frank Quitely to Moebius will probably love this book. It also has some Grant Morrisonly appeal. So it's not a bad book. It just isn't for me.