When I read something by Ryan North, especially with his Adventure Time collaborators on art, I expect upbeat. This isn't that. Starting (well, almost) with Midas' touch turning the whole Earth to dead gold, it then takes us into a future where your usual evil galactic federation is oppressing everyone, and three desperate rebels are trying to retrieve Midas' body to use as a planet-killer against them. The bleakest, most genocidal, war-is-hell side of Star Wars, in other words. Which makes the cute art and glimpses of typically North dialogue* feel weirdly out of place. And even as the plot increasingly hinges on the sort of extreme problem-solving he usually does so well, there are a couple of places I'm not sure the rules are being consistently applied. It's certainly not bad as such, but I feel a little like a kid who's been watching Peppa Pig videos online and has suddenly ended up with one of those weird generated ones where she's eating a pregnant Spider-Man or something.

*"Yes. Well. They're going to be buried in space now. They will be space plants. It is honestly the most exciting death a plant could hope for."

(Netgalley ARC)

This one truly sounded up my alley, Mythology? Added with space? Sure, sign me up. Seeing Midas again with his ridiculous superpower of turning things gold (which sounds like a terrible idea in the long run, but hey, I can somehow also understand that he wanted that). However it was so utterly boring. At first I got much further as we still had the Midas POV, but that all ended when x happened. The space stuff? Yawn. So much dialogue. I don't mind that generally, but it just didn't fit with this story, I believe a ton of it could have easily been cut away and make it all much more fast-paced.

Now I just stranded 1/4 of the book in. And yes, I tried. I tried so many time. I have had this book for a few months now, and every time I try, then get bored and drop it again, but today I wanted to give it one more shot. I got further than usual, so I got that going for me, but yeah. :(

Also it didn't help that I had to zoom in at times to read the huge wall of text. My eyes already are not a fan of reading on a PC, but having endless dialogues in blurry-ish text.. not working.

The art was pretty nice, and well, also one of the reasons why I wanted to try out this book.

In the end, giving it 2 stars. 1 for the art. 1 for Midas and the interesting thing that happened to earth.

I love Ryan North's work quite a bit and that is why I requested this book. Ryan North does not disappoint in the dialogue, quips and jokes department and truly delivers on the action and adventure side of things. The book is so fast paced, I can't imagine any reader could be bored by this exciting story.

It was interesting space opera take on the Midas mythology. it was kind of scary and tense that Mida's flesh would be used as terrorist weapon of sorts which I feel is what makes the narrative unique.

I don’t think I was the right audience for this one.

Pros: Although I had trouble weeding through some of the dialogue for important info, the plot is very interesting when you get into the thick of it. It starts off slow and dialogue heavy, but it picks up eventually, a little bit at least. The writing definitely gets better the more you read, and I think I’m judging this more harshly because I’m a fan of Ryan North’s other work. Overall, this might be a good comic for some junior readers looking for a sci-fi adventure story, I just can’t get over how incredible slow and drawn out it is. I don’t see many kids having the attention spans to get into this.

I like that there’s some diversity in the cast of characters, and of course the dinosaur is great. I also liked the pages that were just panels of wordless illustrations. If the illustrations/colors were better, those pages would be gorgeous and powerful. Paz & Richard was also great, I can’t say anything negative about that one. The art was better than the rest of the comic.

Cons: First thing I noticed was the art. I’m not crazy about it, and the colorist basically just did flat colors like in a paint by numbers. Honestly, the art is the main con for me. It’s very distracting and seems like someone just quickly threw something together. I know they can’t draw the entire comic again, but I bet even changing the colors would improve this book. Shading and detail would do wonders for the flat colors. The variant issue covers by John Keogh (and the other artists) are wonderful, and I’m curious as to why they didn’t go with something more like that.

I didn’t know that this was a junior’s book when I started reading, but I can see it now. Some of the pages seem a bit tedious for kids though. And are our main characters the good guys?? It’s hard to tell sometimes. It’s also difficult to fully judge them because we don’t really get much in the way of background for these characters.

There also seems to be a lot of filler. A lot of dialogue that could be reduced or completely removed. I love Ryan North, and I really enjoyed his Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comics and the Howard the Duck crossover, but I just didn’t see his voice or style in this one. Half the time I felt like he was holding the reader’s hand, the other trying to confuse us. It just seemed to go on and on, a lot of the panels being unimportant or uninteresting.

Where this story is short on character development and emotion, its fast pace and strong imagery will be popular with some readers.

An extremely intriguing read! I really enjoyed the combination of mythology and science fiction! The artwork was great and I also enjoyed the characters and their banter, especially between Midas and his peers. (Though, I did not enjoy Fatima being nicknamed Fatty. It seems really mean.) The only other thing, aside from the nickname, I had a problem with was that seeing as this book is geared toward middle grade, I think that younger readers might be a little lost on the more heavily scientific parts of the book.

Midas sounded interesting for I'm a big fan of Greek mythology. Mythology combined with space odyssey surely is something! Cooper, Fatima and Joey are off to Earth that has turned into solid gold for some reason. Our heroes find the cause for this, a dead body of an old dude - King Midas. It all comes back to mythology and how Midas wished for the touch of gold and it surely happened so. The group gets a finger, but soon others are on the hunt too, since the possibilities are endless and soon the universe is dying. The scientific approach of how Midas will eventually destroy everything was interesting and how it was combined with the mythological aspect and Dionysus etc. The problem is that the comic is too long and there's too many talking heads and nothing really happens in it. Half of the comic would've sufficed and the text walls eat most of the art basically gone.

The art looks nice and cute even, which is odd in a sense, since this is a grave and heavy comic. The color world is beautiful with lots of read and orange. Our characters lack persona, but they surely look good. The cover looks like this could be an adventure comic for kids or teens, but no. The comic is more philosophical and scientific though and for older readers. So, the contradiction is quite heavy. I'm not saying Midas is bad, but it could've used some polishing in different ways, so that it wouldn't have been so all over the place and nowhere at the same time. The potential is there.

Dinosaurs, Greek legends, space, and more! This children's graphic novel has a little bit of everything that will attract many readers (adults included).

Midas explores a "what-if" scenario in which the fabled King Midas is the catalyst for the end of the world with his ill-fated wish to turn everything he touches into gold. This page-turning outer space epic set in a future where Earth is gilded forever in time pits a rag tag group of heroes against an evil federation, both intent on using the recently rediscovered destructive power of Midas' touch to wipe each other out. The three heroes -- Fatima, Cooper, and Joey -- find themselves facing the difficult decision of fighting for their beliefs and their own lives, or fighting for the fate of the universe as they realize the possible repercussions of releasing something as deadly and far-reaching as Midas' weaponized, gold-bearing flesh.

Despite the overall dark themes of this story, Midas is peppered throughout with humor and wit, keeping the banter between characters light in the face of dire situation after situation. Dialogue is engaging and believable (even as delivered by an anthropomorphic dinosaur scientist), and all of the characters were richly developed in both personality and illustration despite the relatively short timeline of the action. Overall, a really fun, ridiculous read that I am still trying to wrap my brain around.

Midas is a graphic novel written by Ryan North. The illustrations were done by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb. The plot of this graphic novel revolves around a small group of space explorers who come to Earth to find the reason it has turned to gold centuries ago. They find the corpse of King Midas and there starts their exploration of how he turned Earth to gold. They fight those who want to abuse the power of King Midas and in the end there comes to the re-creation of the universe and life in it.

I found the dialogues in this graphic novel were very poorly written. They were quite childish, simple and unrealistic. The graphic novel is ment to be a middle-grade and yet I have stumbled upon so many things that in my opinion are not on a middle-grade reading level. (Possible spoiler in the next sentence.) I sincerely doubt that a child reading this graphic novel would for example understand what the subatomic level is and why perhaps it could or could not turn to gold.

Also, I was a bit confused with the decision to nickname Fatima Fatty. Why even give her a nicknames if you couldn’t think of something not offensive?

There is one more thing I cannot look over. I really dislike the way they portrayed greek mythology in this graphic novel. I do not see the need to create new characters with names that don’t even sound like they belong in greek mythology when there are already incredibly interesting characters in it. Also, I found the fact that the giant spaceship was named Titanic extremely cringy.

The art in the graphic novel was okay, cute, but it was not spectacular. And because of all these things I cannot say I enjoyed this graphic novel. Even if you disregard all the negative things I said about it, I still would not have enjoyed it very much. It wasn’t gripping, I quickly lost my focus and was simply bored.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a pretty amazing story.

Suppose that when King Midas wish that everything he touched, turned to gold, that mean not that when he used his hand to touch something, but everything that touched him, including the air he breathed. And each molocule, in turn, would change things to gold, if it was touched, and so on, until the whole world, including King Midas were turned into gold.

And on that day, all life on earth died. And although gold was still rare through the rest of the universe, it was not so on earth. And so the galactic government, hid the planet, and didn't allow anyone to approach it, until our heroes did. And that is where the story begins.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4904" src="https://g2comm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-11.45.00-PM.png" alt="Midus" />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4905" src="https://g2comm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-2.35.31-PM.png" alt="Midus" />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4903" src="https://g2comm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-11.45.34-PM.png" alt="Midus" />

The crew wants to solve the mystery of the gold planet, and discover why it has been hidden so long.

Along the way, there is evil and adventure, and gods. All good fun.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Great art style, a bit of Greek mythology and a dinosaur wearing a spacesuit. What’s not to love?
Obviously I enjoyed this a lot.

This graphic novel has basically everything I look forward to in a unique book:
1. Beautiful art
2. Compelling plot
3. SPACE
4. Freaking dinosaurs
5. CULTURAL DIVERSITY/THE BREAKING OF GENDER NORMS.

I have wanted to read more of Ryan North's writing and this book hit the right cute, quirky spot for me. I love the personalities of the three main characters and the character designs play a huge part of that. A weird but fascinating story about the myth of King Midas. Midas makes a wish and turns his whole world to gold. Centuries later, a small ship finds his body. It draws from the past and from imagination to create a strange world that, while fascinating, leaves a lot of unknowns.

The artwork itself is really eye catching. I find myself drawn to its warm tones and cartoony style. I think this composition really settled my love for the story for me.

I recognized the author and publisher from previous work and was not disappointed. This is a fun twist of Greek mythology and space empires with dinosaurs. That sentence alone should be enough to convince you to read it. The perspectives on the all-powerful empire are timely as is the corruption of power. However, even without deeper themes, this is a fun story with space dinosaurs. There are a few gaps in the plot where back story and characters are glossed over and the ending is a bit rushed but still fun.

This was a fun little comic. I really liked how it wove Greek Myth with science fiction to create an interesting blend. The characters were well fleshed out and I liked Fatty a lot. This is a fun afternoon read, nothing serious or too taxing.

This is SO. MUCH. FUN. Ryan North is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine after his run on Jughead, so when I saw that he had a book that contained both King Midas and a space dinosaur-scientist, I really couldn’t pass it up. It sounds so bizarre and unworkable on the surface, but it’s a really great science fiction romp full of really likeable characters.

This graphic novel was interesting. I love the myth of Midas and his touch, and seeing it play out with a twist of SciFi was pretty great.

When I saw Ryan North's name, I knew this was something I had to read. I apparently completely missed this the first time it was published (as The Midas Flesh), but will definitely be purchashing this compilation for my library's collection as it is fantastic. I kept saying, "well that's weird" out loud while reading this, leading my coworkes to question my choices in reading, but I assured them it was a good weird and by the end, I was completely enamored with the whole thing. I mean, dinosaurs and King Midas as a weapon...in space? It's a complete win!

This was a bit strange. I didn't care for the dialogue, it felt childish and clumsy. I also didn't like that they nicknamed Fatima "Fatty". I mean seriously?! Rather not give her a nickname at all.
The art was nice and the premise ok, not sure whom this graphic novel is marketed towards as there is some hacking off body parts and killing.
Wouldn't really recommend this.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with an eARC.