For my first go-round, I went with the audio version, which was good. Then I went through the text version, which was really good. The audio didn't always come across as "poetry" and seeing the text might be surprising, seeing the spacing and type, the set up as "poems" broken into lines, so much white space on the page.

The graphic novel takes it a step further, keeping some of the spacing/text/fonts, adding simple images, staying with a basic black/white/gray and orange pallet. 

For me, even though I'd already listened and read the story ... reading the graphic novel just made much of it even more real for me. Some things, I don't know if I totally caught (or understood) in the original, now made more clear because of the illustrations. I checked, and this graphic novel seems to be word for word, nothing adapted or left out. Most of the spacing ... a single page in the book, generally is a single page in the graphic novel. 

I did notice one spelling error (let's ... should have been lets/which it is in the original).

I really wonder how I would have felt if the graphic novel was my first (only) experience with the story. I liked my experience (audio, text, graphic novel ... same order as with Jason Reynolds Long Way Down). 

Thumbs up ... I think I'll have to buy a copy for my home library, and maybe one for my Little Free Library, to share the experience.