*I received this book as an eARC from Europe Comics via NetGalley. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

This book is very odd. There are great images depicting the effects of global climate change, but there' not very much of a story. And it's very surface level. There's not too much information provided. I was hoping for more conservation optimism. I have no idea who the intended audience is for this book. I give this book a 2/5 for its cute pictures and focus on climate change.

A quick read at less than 70 pages, with images and no words. The art style is cute and enjoyable, which contracts with the depressing topics - pollution, global warming, really the many ways humans are destroying our planet.

This is labelled as an adult comic, but I'm not sure that adults would get anything new from this. That said, I think it's a great conversation starter, especially for kids and teenagers. This would be a great resource for discussions on how the things we do can impact the world around us.

Crisp, cute and thought provoking. We need more modern comics like this.

I feel title of the book is a little too melancholic for the implicit storyline.

This is a good picture (actually maybe classified as a graphic novel?) book, very good & colorful artwork. It offers a sad forecast for our earth, showing several situations of the way humans carry on mistreating the land, water, air/sky.....& what direction this will go if we don't exact some change. I feel like I should rate it higher due to the serious subject matter (I do 'really like' the message it sends).......but yeah, I liked it..... A quick, short read....no words, but good drawings....& a definite message for all.....young & middle age & old!
I received this e-book from Europe Comics via NetGalley in return for reading it & offering my own honest review.

This is depressing and fatalistic. The blurb on the back cover reads: "Will Gaia save herself from the nefarious effects of Mankind? Perhaps there is a solution..." What's Gaia's solution? Melt all the ice and flood the planet. There's just one problem with that: there's not enough ice in the world to do what this book shows.

Yes, humans suck. We've treated this planet like a garbage can. We've polluted the atmosphere. We've mucked up the oceans. We've decimated the forests. We've polluted the land, and then seem surprised when we get sick living in a toxic environment. But what good does a book like this do? There are no suggestions, no solutions. According to this, we just have to get used to living on solar-powered boats. Or maybe on an island of floating garbage.

This just didn't impress me. It didn't shock me, or tell me anything I didn't already know. The fact that it's aimed at adults is even worse; viewed as such, it seems condescending. It's also defeatist, but at the same time judgmental, almost as if the book is scolding the reader for wrecking the planet.

But if you're going to offer just condemnation rather than helpful solutions, you're kind of part of the problem.

Gaia Blues is a comic without words about pollution. I like the idea behind it. Honestly, I didn't like the ending, but otherwise, I enjoyed it a lot. 3,5/5

An interesting, and often clever, silent comic showing the perils our environment faces, from polar bears having their ice shrink, to idiot fathers having the admiration of their children taken away due to them being litter bugs. Acid rain, sea pollution and radioactive African villagers all get a look in, so the cycle of the story isn't just about any few contemporary concerns (which is a good thing, as this is about eight years old. Just what was the six-year hold-up in the translation, for this wordless book?!). Don't come here for solutions, advice, or even a coherent ending if the truth be told, but this isn't a waste of time. Three and a half stars, instead.

With wordless but colorful and detailed beauty in its illustrations, Gaia Blues depicts the plight of a polluted earth and all of its inhabitants.

<em>Gaia Blues </em>by Gud was a cute but sad story. Which, honestly, I think was kind of the point. This entire book was a visual and silent commentary on pollution and the ways in which humans are destroying the Earth. And it was done pretty well for the most part. Following a man singing and three polar bears who are pulled away from their home as a result of the melting ice caps, this story told only in pictures tries to send a fairly strong message about the problems of pollution.

It's a quick read, told rather well from a multitude of perspectives. You kind of feel like a fly on the wall at times, watching the disasters take place before you. I do think an understanding for what is going on in this book would be more accessible to a reader a little older, but I could definitely see this book being given to younger children as well so long as their parents are around to explain what the book is actually about.

Overall, I enjoyed <em>Gaia Blues </em>and I would definitely consider getting it for my nieces. It's important, I think, to introduce children to this problem early on so they do not make the mistakes of so many of us before them. I do think the ending was a bit weird, though it also sends a rather powerful message. It's somewhat hopeful to see the polar bears building a new home for themselves, but it's thoroughly devastating to see that they're building their new home by freezing the trash heaps that we've dumped into the ocean.

We've clearly got a long way to go in order to clean up the mess we humans have made, and I think this book does an excellent job of letting us know that.

<em>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</em>

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Review on blog to go live on 08/17/2019.

This cute, wordless graphic novel shows how different animals, especially a family of polar bears, are effected by global warming and pollution. Having no words, readers must infer what’s happening. I wouldn’t use this with my middle schoolers but it would be fantastic for elementary students and young children.

No words are needed in this little comic. You are shown what is happening to Earth, Gaia, through a series of simple illustrations. You follow a small family of polar bears as their habitat melts away. A sad little comic that packs a big punch. We need to treat Earth better!

'Gaia Blues' with script and art by Gud is a wordless story about the troubles the Earth is going through.

Starting with a man on a boat, the frames pull out to reveal other parts of the story. A polar bear family sits on a melting ice berg. A ship sinks and leaves an oil spill. Smog pollutes and kills trees. A man throws away a plastic bottle and it joins thousands more in a floating island of trash. Is there any hope for Gaia or will she be blue?

I like the idea of this graphic novel. The wordless story makes the message easy to grasp. I didn't like the solution at the end. It seemed like a way of further creating pollution. I can see the author didn't want the book to be a total downer, but there was probably a different way to end things. I did like the colorful simple illustrations.

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.