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Space Trash Vol. 1

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The artwork is stunning and I adore the character relationships from what I have seen so far. I am excited to see how the story progresses in the nest volume

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Amazing girl gang adventure - the first volume of Space Trash has my new BFFs in an all-girls school on the Moon after Earth has become uninhabitable. Highschool in space is like high school on earth - clique wars, droning teachers, hanging out with your ride or dies, and snitches waiting to get you in trouble. Earth high school never had a space shuttle in the basement. I can't wait to see how the girls work out their issues with a rival gang and try to go back to Earth.

Love the music, the clothes, the hair, the decorations, the graffiti, and queerness of this graphic novel. Cannot wait to get this ordered for HS and MS libraries. We're going to have to get a few copies because I bet this will be popular!

5 stars!

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This was a really fun start to a series. We've got a bunch of bored girls living in a trashy boarding school on the moon, robot teachers, rivalries, maybe some twists to come. I'm looking forward to volume 2.

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I was drawn to this Graphic Novel based purely on the title. Space Trash sounded exactly up my alley.

This was such an interesting concept. An all-girls residential school on the moon in a dystopian future where climate change made the earth uninhabitable and colonies were formed on the Mars (elite) and the Moon.... or maybe the earth isn't so uninhabitable. This book does a great job of setting up interesting and diverse characters, a believable and complex world, and more than one mystery to unravel. I am rooting for Stab and the other punk teens in space!

I will definitely be keeping an eye out for book 2 because I need to know what comes next!

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Set a hundred years from now, at a high school on the moon, we meet three girls who'd rather be anywhere but at school.
With different backstories for each character that we start learning about early on, relationships that feel genuine, sincere and heartfelt, little bits of well placed humor (sometimes even referencing memes without feeling handfisted!) and lots of queer symbolizm everywhere, this cute little sci-fi graphic novel is just a perfect feel good quick read to do your gay heart some good and happiness. All this coupled with visually stunning, vibrantly colored art... Man. I just really enjoyed it!

I could have standed to have it be just a little bit longer, but only because I didn't want the first volume to be over when it was. But it ended in a place that makes perfect sense!

Thank you to Netgalley and Oni press for the copy of Space Trash Vol 1.

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I am hooked. The characters are so fun and the story is incredibly interesting.

Taking place in 2115 with three teens- two from Earth and one from Mars-where they are told Earth is inhabitable. Or is it?

This was so fun and I’m very excited to continue the story.

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Loved this, cannot wait for more. Some plotty things were on a strange timeline, and I would have appreciated more world building at the school, but the cliffhanger at the end has me excited for volume 2!

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Holy crap, I haven't enjoyed a graphic novel this much in a while. The art is phenomenal and I'm so. excited. to see a bunch of queer punk girls in space. The world-building was also pretty cool - the characters and plot were nicely balanced and I'm eagerly awaiting volume 2. Thanks for the opportunity to review - hope I can find more like this on NetGalley to read and review.

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Love the concept of this and set up of vol 1. It’s part The Wilds mixed in with Degrassi and set in space. The cliffhanger at the end of vol.1 makes it super intriguing and leaves you wanting more!

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This was a fun start to what I hope will be a series of adventures in space! Space Trash Vol. 1 follows three teenage girls, Una, Yuki, and Agatha (who prefers to go by "Stab"). The Earth has been declared uninhabitable, so they live and go to school at a facility on the moon, which feels like a very strict boarding school run by computers. They pass the time by reminiscing on Earth culture and getting into fights with different girl gangs over their locker territory. The vibes from the art style were excellent - lots of bright colors and fun hairstyles and fashion and messy teen girl bedrooms and graffiti on the walls and unclean school hallways and cold space beyond. This first volume felt very expository, and it was exciting to get familiar with the world and try to puzzle out what exactly was going on and why they really were sent away from Earth - I was getting vibes like Wall-E or The 100, like there's a conspiracy behind the scenes we'll find out about later. There's a gorgeous scene of one of the girls wearing a space suit and being made to pick up trash on the moon's surface for detention: it's surreal to see her as she looks out over a wire fence at the small Earth in the distance. I did want a bit more development on the character backstories and relationships (we mostly get introduced to their surface-level interests and personalities), but I'm guessing that will come in later volumes as more information about the Earth's status is revealed. The direction the plot takes toward the end has me super intrigued for what's to come!

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This is a cute sci-fi graphic novel about rebels in a moon-colony school. The exact details are unclear, such as how old these kids are (15-ish?), why there seems to be moon boarding schools (there are no adults)-though this is hinted at in passing, and what exactly is going on on Earth-though I think this will be found out later in the series.

There was a nice variety of characters, though, personally, I didn't really connect with any of them but, by this point I'm a bit far-removed from being a teenager. The art style was pretty cool, somewhere between grunge and 80's bright colors (maybe it is supposed to be late 80's?). The comic is pretty surface level for the first in the series but I wish there was a bit more development between Ag/Stab, Yuki, and Una and learning about them more instead of some of the other interactions they had that seemed a bit pointless. The world is developed enough through seeing the teacher-bots, their lockers, and dorms, as well as detention.

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What a delight! This book perfectly encapsulates the experience of teen girls trying to create and own their identities and relationships in front of an interesting backdrop of a dystopian near-future "school" on the moon. The art style is dynamic and vivid, the characters are unique and very real to anyone who's known or been a teenage girl, and the underlying plot is subtle but intriguing. I loved it!

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It's the year 2091, Earth was deemed inhabitable for human life. So, we moved to space and founded colonies on Mars and the Moon. There are no salaries and everything is free, but is it really? Once out of school you have to work off your "debt" to the corporations who run the colonies. IF you can manage to do that, well then you can live in the luxury colonies.

We follow three teens, two who came from Earth before it was evacuated, Stab and Yuki, and one from the Mars colonies Una. They want to form a bad ass gang to defend their territory in the school, but what they end up doing is so much more. Because is Earth really uninhabitable, or is that just what they have been told?

"Punks, just wants to save the planet and go home."

This was such a honest and raw look at our own society. How we treat our planet, capitalism and the oppressive system that rules us with an iron fist. Keeping the poor poor and the rich getting richer. I loved the characters and where the story is going. I can't wait for volume 2!

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Volume One of SPACE TRASH has me hooked. An exciting call to adventure for its main cast, this first installation in an on-going series sets a lot of interesting things in motion. Jenn Woodall creates a team of diverse protagonists the reader is immediately invested in: characters whose strengths and flaws make for very interesting dynamics and drive the plot. The art is stunning- beautiful character designs and lived-in looking backgrounds and locations-- a future that looks a lot more like Gilliam's Brazil than a gleaming Apple Store. Can the residents of a prison-like boarding school on the moon put aside their differences and escape back to earth? I so look forward to Volume Two to see where things go.

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It was cute and the illustrations were really good but I wanted more. It almost felt like I stopped halfway through and the story wasn’t even close to complete.

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A cute sci-fi graphic novel about three teens attending school on the moon. Featuring beautiful illustrations and diverse characters, I really enjoyed this one. The beginning might have been a bit slow, but the ending still left me excited for what'll come next in this series!!

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This was so cute !! I love space and anything to do with it so I really enjoyed this, and I love the dynamic between the three main characters so far!! I’m looking forward to seeing more of them since we didn’t much depth in this first volume.
The main complaint I have is that the font was very hard for me to read, I have dyslexia and I struggle to read certain fonts! It wasn’t too bad, it just took me longer to read than it usually would. I also wish it was longer, there wasn’t much plot in this book, I guess it mostly about us meeting the characters!
I’m looking forward to seeing more of Una and Yuki’s friendship as there seemed to be a lil something going on there! I loved Agatha (or Stab!) the most because of all her little frog items :D I hope Vol 2 has more to it! These characters are very unique and lovable and it was just really fun to read!! The art style is beautiful, all the little details are so cool! I would recommend!

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I really enjoyed the concept, artwork & intrigue of this comic. I’m interested in all of the characters and feel the ending set up for volume 2 perfectly. I can’t wait to read that too.

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I really enjoyed Space Trash Volume 1.
This graphic novel sets the scene of punk pals in an all female cast, residing on the moon in the aftermath of Earth becoming uninhabitable.
As expected from a first volume we are introduced to the characters and the setting. Plot is light and informative at this stage but sets the history and the setting well.
The characters have good defining features and individual personalties that set the apart from each other.
I would have loved for it to be a bit longer and I will 100% be looking out for volume 2, 3, 4, 5 and as many as I can get my hands on, so please keep them coming!

The art work is awesome, there are some incredible double page spreads and some really nice details to the scenes. I particularly enjoyed the art in a dream scene and the mix of a rustic setting with contrasting vibrant and neon colours for clothing and accessories, it really makes the pages pop.

A great start to a series that I can't wait to be obsessed with.

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Space Trash Vol. 1 introduces the coolest, most punk-rock girl gang this side of the solar system. Stab, Yuki, and Una are underdogs at their school, just trying to make it through while standing their ground. This leads them on course for an adventure to follow in subsequent volumes that I am so excited to follow them on!

One of the things that makes or breaks a graphic novel for me is the artwork, and I have to say that Woodall's work here is absolutely gorgeous. The colors! The character designs! The layouts! All are stunning. But that isn't the only thing Woodall does well. All three of the main characters feel like real teenagers with real lives, as far into the future as 2115 might be. The pacing of this first chapter of the gang's story is spot-on; there are smaller moments that give you insight into who the characters are, and there are bigger plot-driven scenes that carry things along, too.

This is definitely a story that will appeal to teenagers, but I think anyone of any age would be able to appreciate the story. Woodall's artwork alone makes it worth a perusal, and any reader who makes it to the end will be wanting Vol. 2 as quickly as possible.

A big thank you to Oni Press and NetGalley for providing a copy for review.

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