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'Boni Volume 1: The Last Bite of Carrot' with art and script by Ian Fortin is a series of comic strips about a little bunny and his family.
Boni is the oldest sibling in his family. He's got a friend named Milo who wears glasses. There is a bunny named Brigitte who Bruno likes. There is a also a really large bully bunny named Bruno.
The gags are the usual kid type gags, but there are some more mature type language in a couple, so I'd call this a PG rated book. The art is mainly just the characters and whatever props the gag needs. There is not background art, which keeps the page clean. I liked this collection of comics.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
This is an entertaining series of comic strips about a rabbit called Boni, his parents, siblings and his friends. The artwork is simple but colorful and each page illustrates a humorous situation. Some of it is actually focusing on quite serious issues such as the school bully and the issue of unrequited young love, but these problems are told in an amusing way.
Many of the comic strips are based on everyday family life occasions such as holidays, Christmas, hobbies etc.
I found it hard to get through and have been trying to fish it for months. Overly violent, trite, repetitive, and not funny.
A big thank you to NetGalley and Europe Comics for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. I give up! I apparently just don't like this type of book. I found the humor just odd and not my thing at all. I give this 2 stars.
Not quite what I was expecting as far as graphic novels go. Interesting story though and a cute art style.
How old is this author? Based on the sophistication of the jokes, my guess is approximately 12 years old.
Maybe 10.
The art is cute and fun, the humor is...confused. It doesn't know whether this is supposed to be adult humor or juvenile humor, and sadly, it hits neither criteria.
Just walk by.
Thank you very much for making this volume available for my review. The appeal of this particular book was not evident to me, and if I cannot file a generally positive review I prefer simply to advise the publisher to that effect and file no review at all.
Life is harsh, especially for Boni, who is a cute rabbit. It's a book with pretty simple pictures, but they show hilarious situations. I honestly laughed out loud several times and giggled through the rest of the book. Good stuff, I tell you. Oh I absolutely adore Boni's grandpa ;)
This is an entertaining series of comic strips about a rabbit called Boni, his parents, siblings and his friends. The artwork is simple but colorful and each page illustrates a humorous situation. Some of it is actually focusing on quite serious issues such as the school bully and the issue of unrequited young love, but these problems are told in an amusing way.
Many of the comic strips are based on everyday family life occasions such as holidays, Christmas, hobbies etc.
I generally prefer to read complete stories in graphic form but this book of comic strips provides something different in its joke per page format that I also enjoyed.
This is a great comic book for those times when jokes or light reading is needed.
Copy provided by Europe Comics via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
A decently witty yuck-book. The gags seem fine to me – short subjects get four colourful pages at a time, but do recur now and again to make us care about these creatures – the young lad, the besotted lad, the hottie and the nottie, and the elderly granddad etc. You would have to be told and told again that these weird (nay, ugly) creatures were actually rabbits, but some of the gags – the boat-building, and several others before then – really do work, on the level of script and visual cartooning. Worth a look.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with this copy for honest review.
"Boni is a nice little rabbit who has to learn the harsh realities of life. He always manages to maintain his sunny disposition and enthusiasm, even in a cruel world where catastrophes -- and school bullies -- smack him in the face at every turn. His parents are well-meaning but sometimes exasperated, while his many younger siblings cause all kinds of trouble, and his grandpa just wants to be left the heck alone."
For me, this just didn't hit the mark. From the description and art style, I thought this would be a cute story but it sadly fell short. It's a series of almost dad joke panels that include adults being very mean to poor Boni and also encourages bullying and there wasn't a storyline that I could see to connect the panels together.
Unfortunately, not for me but I loved the art style.
Thank you NetGalley and Europe Comics for this DRC.
Boni is a nice little rabbit who has to learn the harsh realities of life. He always manages to maintain his sunny disposition and enthusiasm, even in a cruel world where catastrophes -- and school bullies -- smack him in the face at every turn. His parents are well-meaning but sometimes exasperated, while his many younger siblings cause all kinds of trouble, and his grandpa just wants to be left the heck alone.
The drawings are cute and were what drew me to this in the first place. I wish the content had been a better match to the creativity of the character sketches.
The "jokes" were extremely cruel, violent, and encouraged bullying. The parts that might have been funny were drawn out and dragged along through too many panels that they lost the fun part along the way.
Boni is a comic book that is just plain fun. Cartoonish images and a side splitting story make this book well worth the read.