Better than most young adult/new adult aged graphic novels. It's just alright. This is a hard audience to write for.

This was so fun, I can't wait to read more of it. There was a lot of diversity and I feel like it really portrayed the real retail experience

Cellies is well done, clearly illustrated and nicely plotted. I have been reading Joe Flood's work for a few years now and this book acts as a strong example of his work. Highly recommended for its engaging use of images and text.

This volume collects the first 5 issues of Cellies.

A fun comic that looks at the tedium that is working retail and the balancing of school life, social life, mangers, and new hires. While it was an enjoyable hour-long read, I really don’t have too much to say about it. The characters were fun and a couple of them got their own arcs, which I enjoyed. Some of the stories did kinda jump around abruptly, but not in a confusing way. I think it was just the subject matter itself that made it a very neutral read for me–it’s literally just a comic about working retail, there’s no mystery or fantasy or weird elements to it, so while it’s amusing, it’s also nothing different from day to day life.

A book that thinks it has more to say than it actually manages, but not without some merit. The first issue is really setting up for a zombie drama, riffing on the mindless twonks queueing for a midnight purchase of that month's must-have mobile phone. But after that we're with a completely different author, editor and possibly even a brand new OS, as it turns into a saga of differing characters staffing the phone store. Their dramas are supposed to be laugh-making (they're not), they're supposed to be empathy-building (again, no), and they're supposed to be realistic. And you know what? I think that might be the closest. You really can picture these people with very little luck in their careers, watching everyone walk past the store windows buying things on their cells and consigning them to yet another boring shift, only enlivened by chucking packaging at each other. The problem, then, is that that doesn't make for a hugely entertaining read – if the satire of the first issue had been kept, we would really have been on to a winner. As it is, this is perfectly readable, and looks fine, but it's got a little too much of the mundane about it to shine. Yes, you're right – it needed an upgrade. Three and a half stars is a smidge generous.