Elecboy is a graphic novel I picked up from Netgalley purely based on the cover. Yeah... that machine? Not part of the story (yet) at all. I really enjoyed the scifi elements of this, even though I had NO idea what was going on. But then there is the whole 'political' story of this American town, and I really didn't like it. This spoiled brat tries to rape his (half)sister, and then lets all the pretty girls in town get gathered up and used as breeders. And no one really puts up a fight whatsoever... least of all the girls. There wasn't a single decently developed female character in this novel. They were just reasons for the men to fight or have political leverage. At least the art was great.

Thanks to Netgalley for a digital copy in exchange for an honest review :)

The comic starts with an interesting battle between 2 beings (seems like a human like being and an angle/AI type one) - very interesting fighting scenes, beautiful graphic, made me very curious for who, what, where, why... That scene made me read the whole comic in one seating.

After that awesome scene at the start, you get some years in the future, into a post-apocalyptic America where just a couple of people are alive. I don't want to say much about this part, but it sparks some discussions about friendship, family, survival and how a society can change.

I really loved the art and the world. I am very curious to find out more about the people involved in the starting scene. The 2nd part of the book had some good character introduction, but I need a little bit more. At the moment I don't feel much for any of the characters. I think they could be great and very interesting, but I need to read more to get a good feel.

With this in mind, I am very curious for the next volume. I totally recommend this for anyone that likes dystopian, post-apocalyptic books with some fantasy/science-fiction in there. (Still not sure if we have AI in the story or they are just some very interesting fantastical beings - angles?). It will captivate you and keep you want to read more.

Unfortunately not a lot was going on with this one. We didn't learn much about the world, the plot was all over the place, the characters weren't well established...
The art was beautiful though.

Never trust a book by its cover. The one we get here suggests a simple story of a boy and his robot. What we get is something else utterly, utterly different – more like Mad Max 5: The Cyborgs and Angels Have a Biff – and is utterly, utterly incomprehensible. Every scene seems shoe-horned into the least helpful place in the plot imaginable. Bodged. And then some.

This wasn’t it for me. Some aspects of this story interested me in the beginning, but it feels like they did the art first, and then the story was just thrown together. The story seemed to drift so much that at times I wondered if this was the same book.

This graphic novel contains mentions of attempted rape, woman being referred to as breeders, and seems to be going in the direction of siblings having a romance.

The plot is really interesting and it started out really good but I lost the story somewhere in the middle and stopped making sense to me. But the graphics are super and the color palette is great. I kept on and turning the pages even after I lost interest in the story, just because of the graphics. The faces especially look so realistic, I loved it, and the whole futuristic vibes with robots and all, this was my favorite part of the graphic novel. I wish the story was a bit more gripping.

Thanks so much to Netgalley, and the publishers for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

A visually stunning exploration of futurism. I appreciated the artistic design and visceral storytelling in this book.

The world has ended. I has been invaded by technological, angel-like beings who are currently searching for someone on the planet. A group of survivors is struggling. Joshua and his friends are bullied by the leader's grandson who is cruel to everyone including his own father. Joshua and his father do not get along because he will not tell him about his mother. His father and a group go out to find out what is happening with their water supply and are attacked by the aliens. The leaders order that women are taken from the lower class to become breeders. I am curious who the aliens are looking for and what will happen next.

Elecboy presents a devastated cityscape being attacked by a mysterious creature. Causing the sacrifice of an unknown character.

Some years later, the reader is presented with an American southwest setting, inhabited by humans who struggle to survive in a kind of post-apocalyptic world. Still being attacked by some extra-terrestrial creatures.

Elecboy has the perfect amount of science-fiction, mythology, far west stories, etc. What failed me was how the female characters are viewed and treated in the story. Mostly as breeding creatures and/or as the reason for two men to fight.