This would make a great introduction to Vonnegut's stories. The story itself, classic for obvious reasons, was retold in lovely panels and great stylistic form.

Thank you to NetGalley and Boom Studios for an ARC.

I love Kurt Vonnegut. I've read Slaughterhouse-Five several times and really enjoyed revisiting it with this graphic novel. I'm not sure how I would have felt about it if I had not already read the book and many of Vonnegut's other books though.

It is a very faithful rendition of the story with amazing artwork and the main themes of the novel are kept in place. This is worth a read if you're a Vonnegut fan.

This book was remarkable. Instead of simply transcribing the words to the page and adding pictures, this graphic novel lets the story breathe and take on a new life of its own. It does things that you can only do in this format, like including a paper doll cut-out illustration to emphasize the amount of gear Roland Weary carries. I also loved the inset comics by Kilgore Trout. The timeline of Billy’s life stretched out across the page and represented by different colors was a really effective way to communicate the Tralfamadorians’ concept of time. The tongue-in-cheek references to comics as an “inferior” art form were clever, too. I love the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, and I feared that a graphic novel would be a cheap reduction, but, instead, the graphic novel enhances the story and cleverly uses its format to make the story even better.

An intriguing graphic representation of a classic novel! Bold graphics and diagrams propel the story's momentum forward. It is a fine introduction to Kurt Vonnegut for those who prefer graphic novels over narrative fiction.

Thank you to the publisher for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

I probably missed something here since this is a comic of the most popular novel I know at this point like every school would read this novel except for us. I however did not enjoy this comic. I thought the text bubble text was so small it was incredibly difficult to read. I also thought that it was all rather all over the place.

I did like some of the character so it wasn't all bad of course but I think I missed the main shot for this one.

As someone who's just getting started with Kurt Vonnegut, I knew that Slaughterhouse-Five is a must a some point. Seeing the comic that's about to come out, I knew I'd be very much interested to see how Vonnegut and graphic novels mash up.
On the writing front, we see a great representation not only of the story itself, but also Vonnegut's witty writing and dark humour. I really enjoyed reading, as it was as captivating as the books from him that I've read.
I do think however that the art in this title is very important to note - it's beautiful and ugly at the same time, just as the story itself. It captures well the theme, atmosphere and overall feeling so graciously, you can almost imagine Kurt Vonnegut being personally involved in the drawing process. The style and colour palettes match up fantastically, sucking you right into the story.
I wholeheartedly recommend the book to both long-time fans and to people that have yet to read anything from Vonnegut.

*Thanks to NetGalley and BOOM! Studios for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*