I received an eARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

An interesting take on a pandemic-esque situation seen through the lense of a fantasy world. Fun and witty characters bring life to the magical world they inhabit, I just wish that there had been a little more depth to them. But a quick read highlighting how working together in hard times is for the good of all.

This comics was alright

It was funny, and weird and cute and silly all at the same

It wasnt specifically my cup of tea but it was entertaining.

And as somebody who is learning digital art, I can appreciate the quality of the illustrations.

The story was just meh for me

Thank you Netgalley. This was a fun quick read. The art is fun and cute, and that was the main reason I became interested. The humor was very "modern Cartoon Network show" ish, where all the jokes are explained, it tries very hard to be quirky, and it's all just very self-aware. Sometimes it worked and it was actually funny, but a lot of the time it felt forced. I'm sure a child would enjoy it more, I'm just too bitter and critical

The horror, the horror.

No, just no.

Rampant filler to make the character-count up. Rampant filler to make the character-count up.

This was a really quick to read and beautifully illustrated comic. It’s easy to follow and the story is quirky and fun. I’ll be intrested to see if they release follow up comics and I would read them if so, it was a really nice read at the end of a very long day!

The Short Version: A good tale about the consequences of classifying people as “other” that’s told in a angry birds meets candy land aesthetic.

The Long Version: Loonicorns is a story about a magical kingdom full of unicorns, Cyclopes, and other fantastical creatures that are classified into two categories: uglies and pretties. One day something goes wrong with all the pretties so it’s up to a couple uglies to sort it out.

The story at points get stuck between being grown up enough to be YA and too juvenile to really fit, but the overall adventure is fun and there’s some decent humor to it.

The artwork is well done even though it wasn’t an artistic style I wouldn’t choose normally.

The characters are likable enough even though I wasn’t really attached strongly to any of them.

Overall a 3.5 out of 4 and definitely worth a read to most people who are graphic novel fans already and don’t mind the aesthetic.

Component Ratings
Concept/Idea: 3.5 out of 5
Artwork: 4 out of 5
Plot: 3.5 out of 5
Characters: 3 out of 5
Character development: 3.5 out of 5
Dialogue: 4 out of 5
Ending: 4 out of 5