The cover of the comic really appealed to me – it has a unique style and is quite gritty, but not cheap. I think it's a work of art and I would hang it in my room. I was very curious about the storyline.
However, while reading, it quickly became clear that it is an independent comic. The drawings are not always perfect, but I still liked this style in the 22-page booklet. However, I find the plot a bit too complex for such a few pages. At times, I struggled a bit to follow it, or to understand what the artist Steven Grau was thinking.
A fisherman goes out fishing every day with his son on his small mini motorboat. However, this is becoming increasingly difficult because the large corporations are overfishing everything with their huge ships. So far, so clear. The father becomes very angry at the corporations because he can no longer feed his family. Thus, he drops his son off on land and goes back out to confront a large ship. As it must happen – the father is run over and killed. His son then wants to take revenge and blows up an oil rig, only to realize that all the oil spilling into the sea only makes things worse...
As a critic, I assert that the story could have been elaborated much better and a clearer connection between overfishing and "oil rig pollution" could have been established. Nevertheless, I always have respect when a hobby artist completes and publishes a comic. For €4, you can definitely support it (or almost have to) and read the comic with its rough edges – after all, the comic focuses on an important issue!
