A super fun sci-fi romp of a graphic novel. I love this story and series. The characters are fun and interesting and the jokes are just the right kind of silly

Fun and inclusive story about kids going in to space. A great level of silly and gross that kids will appreciate with thoughtful characters and a futuristic fun.

Fans of Brown's previous works are going to love his new series. Fans of humorous science fiction will enjoy this new series. Everyone else will probably feel pretty bland about it. It's by no means bad, but it's not the best middle grade graphic novel I've read recently.

This new series by Jeffrey Brown will appeal to fans of both the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series and the Jedi Academy series. The art work is densely drawn and full of interesting details. The new alien species are a creative and fun. The plot does meander a bit in the beginning, but really begins to take off in the second half of the story. The best part of the book is the centering of diverse characters.

Once Upon a Space Time is a humorous graphic novel for students who enjoyed Jeffrey Brown’s other works, books with a aliens like the Star Scouts series by Mike Lawrence, and humorous fantasy graphic novels like Mech Cadet Yu by Greg Pak.

In the future we learn we are not alone and everything changes. The alien technology changes our world and so much is now possible. Our main characters are kids at an institute just for space exploration, but they are the misfits of the school. But that doesn’t stop them! Told in Brown’s funny fashion, this sci-fi graphic novel is going to be a huge hit with students!

Not the best but not the worst. I am generally a really big fan of Jeffrey Brown’s comics, especially his cat comics and Lucy & Andy Neanderthal. The Lucy & Andy series in particular is really compelling because of the brilliant mixing of science and fiction with these perfect interjections of real science and anthropology. This one is neither as fun/funny as those nor as informative. I know this one is straight fiction, and there were definitely some imaginative elements, but overall I was a bit bored. While I wasn’t super captivated, I will still definitely promote this title to children (once the library can safely reopen). It’s not my favorite of his comics for kids, but it is still light years better than the Wimpy Kid books. I would happily punt that series into space and contribute to the space junk preventing Tobey (et al.) from putting in a space elevator on earth.

This is Brown's second journey into using a narrative to educate in the graphic novel format. Previously, in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series he taught us about prehistoric life. This book takes on the science of space travel. As in that previous series, this book uses the story as a loose framework for teaching us about space. There is no strong conflict, more a series of quirky circumstances. Some of the complications work a bit too hard to integrate the facts into the text. Additionally the humor is pretty random, sometimes drawing focus away from the plot. The art is charming enough to support this through a single read though I don't know that it will hold up to a repeat.

Solid kids graphic novel. The beginning was stronger that the very cliff hanger ended. It’s obviously a series starter. The humor is all age appropriate and even made me chuckle a few times. I would certainly hand this to a kid that wanted a funny sci-fi story.

Laughs will start right away in this hilarious new graphic novel by Jeffrey Brown! Earth is visited by aliens named Tobey (all of them are named Tobey) to help prepare humans to join the galactic civilization. Instead of choosing highly trained astronauts to be the first humans to venture outside of the solar system, the aliens send the most unlikely kids for the mission. Choc full of humor as well as information about relativity, rocket science, and more, young readers will want join along for Petra and Jide's wild ride - especially budding cosmonauts.