While the idea of the plot was interesting and had a lot of potential, I was taken aback by the cutesy illustrations. I didn't feel they matched the dark tone of the story. It was still an enjoyable read, just a tad confusing.

This was a fun and quick Graphic Novel Read! It was an interesting take on a post apocalyptic world lived in by anthropomorphic animals. Can't wait to see where the story continues from here!

I love this graphic novel. Great story line and beautiful artwork. I'll definitely get this for our library.

The Dam Keeper is a sad and devastating story in so many ways. The perfect counterpart to this is that our main characters are kids, a pig, hippo and fox. The hollow ghostly feeling is distressing and beautiful at the same time. The pig is following his dad in protecting the city from a dark nasty fog by setting the windmills to work. His dad lost himself to madness and now even the fog is acting weirdly so that our friends get lost only to find other places like their home. The melancholia is suffocating and the kids are awesome. The fox is friends with both, but the pig and hippo don't like each other. The tension is interesting as it shifts their power balance. The ending bothered me though, it felt like this ended too abruptly and what was the point really? Especially with the way the fog looked. So many awesome things were now left unsaid in a way that it's even hard to try to analyse this. I so wished something crushing and bittersweet. Somehow this reminded me of Lowry's The Giver.

The art is basically flawless and beautiful. Everything is dark, grim and sandy and then our characters are pastel-colored animals like cute stuffed toys. It's so odd that it's really perfect. Kondo moves the story with ease and the panels are their own story within a story. The Dam Keeper comic is oddly cute and depressing, which made me basically cry. A proper ending would've earned this five stars easily, now it kind of lacked unless there's continuation? I hope there is.