'The Children' with art and story by Jean-Philippe Stassen is a story about children in a warzone.

Boys in a wartorn unnamed country spend their days weaving baskets and fantasizing about the blonde aide worker there to help them. At night, the smoke and drink and steal to cope with the horrors around them. Their tongues are sharp to others and each other. They talk a big game, but have nothing going for them.

I understand where this story should have gone, but there is nothing much happening except dialogue amongst these mostly unlikeable boys. It was hard to feel anything positive about these kids or to even feel much empathy. The art is really dark, like the cover of the book, maybe to match the heart of this story.

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The moral of this incredibly depressing story is: there are no innocents in war.
The story focuses on a group of young African boys who have lost their families in an ongoing war. They spend their days at a place called Savinn (stands for Save The Innocents) where they weave baskets, play soccer, get a few meals here and there but mostly try to stay safe with shelling and explosions close by and mock the over-eager white Belgian volunteers who staff the place.
The story is extremely bleak, but does what it sets out to: shows that in a war zone with everything uncertain, the innocence of childhood is always the first casualty.

A sad beautiful story in this graphic novel. The art style is very interesting as well. Will definitely recommend.

A story about a group of street children growing up in a war torn town in an unnamed country in Africa. The story basically tells how the children survive even though they are desperate and traumatised.

The artwork is great but the story meanders along, not really saying anything. We are introduced to the children, their lives and their interactions with a swedish couple who run a nearby development project.

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This was my first foray in to Graphic Novels, I enjoyed the experience however the plot left me slightly confused and it wasn't immediately clear who the characters were at the beginning. However, the plot and characters were interesting and a number of issues (colonialism, war, disparity, homophobia) were discussed.

Unreadable tosh; the text is as schizoid as the kid that narrates out loud about people in his presence to a passing fly, and the artwork is unable to give anybody a kind approach – or, in many instances, a specific gender. Dreadful. DNF, as if it needed saying.

The story was extremely interesting however the plot did seem all over the place, I am not sure if the download completed but it seemed as if some parts were missing. The artwork wasn't the greatest and seemed rushed.