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A review by macloo
Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope by Darcy Van Poelgeest
1.0
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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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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