Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced readers copy. All opinions are honest and my own.

Synopsis:
A young man struggles to build a publishing company, find love, and discover who he really is, with his one true trusted companion being the dog who truly seems to understand him. In the end, he realizes that for far too long he has been a self-absorbed piece of sh*t.nA touching autobiographical story by Swiss BD publisher Pierre Paquet, the spiritual sequel to Paquet’s Eisner-nominated A Glance Backward, which recounted his experience dealing with the death of his father at age 11.

The art was great, but the story wasn't enjoyable att all.

Half the time I just didn't get what was going on. I mean, it was okay I suppose, just not my style art and no interesting story.

Ok, this book wasn't the best but either wasn't good. I get the point and even entertaiment, but wasn't my cup of tea.

This was so mediocre and I don't understand why this guy would think his life was so interesting to make this....blah. Piece of shit indeed...lol.

This was a very interesting story. I really enjoyed the art and vision.

I stopped reading this about half way through. The storytelling was so disjointed, it was hard to follow. The stories were often pointless except to show the author was selfish.

It was purely, ok-ish for me. Gotta love a great dog, though.

POS's art was nice, but that's about where my praise ends. I understand that dog is important to the story but the plot has no real cohesion. The graphic novel jumps from scene to scene in a rambling flashback that ends in anticlimax. There are too many scenes that have nothing to do with the dog, if the dog is indeed the focus.



I guess it was kind of cool to see the struggles of someone trying to get into the publishing business. POS is  a french novel that's been translated and released for English speaking readers. I honestly wouldn't recommend simply because there's no story. If i had time to get to know Pierre and get invested in his life, maybe it would be a better story. As it stand, the reader is immediately thrown into Pierre's life, with no real reason to care about anything he does.

Harsh and brilliant. A book that brings you through the entire range of emotions in a great way.

A young dude decides to publish a friend’s comic book, which leads to all sorts of woes, including a destroyed friendship, financial problems, and a loss of reputation with other members of the graphic novel industry. Pretty much all his friend betray him. But he has a dog and a girlfriend, so life isn’t all bad. Or is it?

The girlfriend thing doesn’t work out … it never does … leading to some amusing dating service scenes and quite a number of sex scenes. Dude seems to be having trouble finding himself, or maybe he prefers fun to commitment and isn’t sure how to admit that to himself.

As for the dog … the dog is great. The dog is dude’s rock. That’s just how dogs are. Loyalty without all the drama. Way better than a serious girlfriend, at least if you get as much action on the dating service as dude does. But there’s always a sense of dread about the dog. Most of the story’s dramatic tension comes from the dude’s worries about his dog.

The rest of the time, the dude is sleeping with a large assortment of women and avoiding his feelings about any of them. He gives all of his feelings to his dog, which I can respect. So he’s a POS when it comes to women, and he feels like a POS when he doesn’t give his dog the attention he deserves. The story is kind of touching when it comes to the dog. The rest of it is kind of ordinary, but I like the art.

And I like the fact that most of the story is told in flashback, while the present consists of the dude running down the street, chased by … is it his dog? You have to read the story to find out, but that aspect of the story is really pretty touching.

In this autobiographical story, we follow Pierre as he struggles to start a publishing company. His constant companion through the highs and lows, loves, and losses is a scraggly dog named Sonny.

The art in this memoir is beautiful and is perfect for it's touching story. Pierre is trying to do things right but ends up making crappy choices; leaving him lonely in life overall. In a way this book and Angel Catbird have a great deal in common when it comes to the underlying message of how to treat our pets but instead of silly puns, we get a tear-jerking story of how our pets truly are our family and how their love impacts our lives. If you enjoy stories that touch your heart and involve our furry companions, you will enjoy this story of how one guy just tries to be less of a POS.

I liked the book but I wasn't particularly as obsessed with it as I had hoped.

A face with a bunch of question marks above my head best describes me after finishing this book.

Along with my very quick Goodreads review of ” *internally screams with stress and anxiety*”

Is it normal for a book to leave you feeling this way?

I wanted to like it, to appreciate it but its hard when you’re screaming at your friends every five minutes because his dog is in trouble. Again.

The art style is very different to what I usually pick up but it fitted the story well.

Pierre goes through a lot of shit. With work. With women. With his dog.

But honestly? I barely connected to it because I was just stressing all the time about his dog. I’m sorry I clearly missed a lot of this graphic novel. Or its point.

Either way guys, if this synopsis intrigues you … read some more reviews before you make a decision to pick it up because literally all I can tell you is that it really stressed me out because his dog gets in some tricky situations that were avoidable and I just wanted his dog/s to be ok.

Pierre Paquet is the owner of small publishing house specialising in graphic novels. This semi-autobiographical book is about his deep relationship with his dog, which sustains him through all the stresses of his life: building a firm from scratch, being betrayed by friends, a lawsuit and his fruitless attempts to find love. Through it all, Sonny the dog is by his side, and Pierre eventually realises what he truly wants out of life.

This is a story that will appeal to pet lovers, although it's a bit overwrought at times. Some of the graphic work is subtle and clever, with faces hidden in trees and clouds underlining Pierre's emotions. Unfortunately I just could not get on board with Pierre as a character; hence the title, I guess.

Why the hell would you do this to me? No, seriously... why? I am so gutted by this book. I just can't even think of how I feel because I'm typing this through tears.

This graphic novel is beautiful and resonates with me. Pierre Paquet had a way of making you feel the frustrations he has had in his life. The artwork is beautiful and I'm honestly upset that this is over. I really loved the storyline and the slight twist on the plot.

I am not sure what all to say without spoiling this book so I'm just going to say that this is beautiful, heart wrenching, and everyone should read it.

Giving this a 3 (IMO, a neutral rating), because I couldn't view this novel properly. I wish I could, though.

Unable to review this book properly as my galley had no images. Sorry.

This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.

I have a tendency to like graphic novels from Europe, but in this case I did not because the main character was completely unlikable. He was such a complete jerk that you desperately wanted to see the light to come on in his brain, and to see him change, but after I'd read 230 of 256 pages and discovered there wasn't even evidence of a glimmer of this, I asked myself, why am I continuing to read about this piece of shit - because that's exactly what he was, and determinedly and perennially so.

I did not care a whit about him and felt whatever he got, assuming it was bad, he thoroughly deserved. I quit reading on page 230 because I realized I had wasted a small part of my life reading this that I would never get back.

The artwork is so-so, very much like an old Tintin comic in some regards. The coloring was pretty good, but whoever did the lettering needs to get a clue. It was really hard to read (full disclosure: I am not a fan of letters at all!). The art would have been fine if the writing had had something to recommend it, but it was tedious. It kept teasing the reader with the potential to go somewhere but it never actually did. Not unless you class going around in repetitive circles as 'going somewhere'. All this story ever did was go around until you found yourself back where you started, with the same things happening over and over again.

At one point there was a court case and it went on for several pages There was never any resolution offered to it, and all the time I was reading that section, I had no good idea why this guy was in court! here were flashbacks appearing out of nowhere and sometimes it was easy tot ell they were flashbacks. other times it was not clear if it was a flashback or the next scene in his current life. He was an alcoholic, too, and this did not help, because he sometimes had alcoholic delusions, so in short it was a mess, and I cannot recommend it

It's weird: I couldn't stop reading this book, even though I kind of hated every single minute of it.