The illustrations in this book is absolutely amazing and I'm so captivated with every page in this entire book. The story was really great too, it might seem like an ordinary and mundane plot until you get the hidden message. I read it in one sitting and it was fun and recommended.

An ugly look at the "ooh, wasn't growing up in the 1980s shit?!" genre, full of you-had-to-have-been-there moments. Well, I wasn't, as this is very much embodying its Spanish origin, and this was pretty irrelevant to me. Also, still ugly.

This one took me by surprise.
You think it's about one big thing when it's really about another.
This really reminded me of childhood. It felt so realistic to how a group of kids spend a day, going on a big important adventure. It's just one day in their life but you really get an idea of who these kids are and what their lives are like.
It's about the loss of innocence in a couple different ways. It's a great example of the real world chipping in to a child's imagined world.
Really good.

This a very odd book that’s for sure. It’s mainly about these 3 teenagers that think the world is going to end and begin making preparations. But the story takes you in so many different directions that I just wasn’t sure what the theme of this book was. It does have some profanity and nudity.

'One of Those Days' by Andrés G. Leiva is a graphic novel translated from Spanish about a boy who hears that the world is going to end at midnight. It is set in 1982 in Cordoba, Spain. It follows him (also named Leiva, who could be the author) and his two friends as they prepare for the end.

While I liked the premise of this graphic novel, I felt a little indifferent while I was reading it. There were some things I really liked about this book, like the art style (which I will cover later on) and the metaphor that this book is trying to convey (which I will also cover later on), there were some things that I took issue with. First of all, one of Leiva's friends, Fali, is overweight, and this book does not let up about it. Fali's friends make fun of him (that's how we're introduced to him), and he spends most of his time in this book talking about or eating food. I wish he were more fleshed out.

Most characters in this book need more fleshing out, which I think could have been done with more pages and more time spent with the characters. I would have definitely read a longer book if that's what it took for the characters to feel real. Even the main character, who I assume is based on the author, is one-dimensional.

However, there were some things I did like about this book. For example, the rough art style matched the tone of the book well, and the colors popped off the page, keeping my interest. I also liked that there were callbacks to the beginning of the book throughout. In the beginning, the main character is now older and has a son, to whom he gives a box full of his old stuff. We see a book, a few posters, etc. Throughout the book, the reader can see these things around, whether in the background or part of the plot.

I also really liked the theme the author was trying to convey, that being people being unphased by oncoming disaster and danger. While it was a bit obvious at times, I think it was well done.

Overall, I thought this book was decent. This was something I would have expected more from a debut, but it was still worth reading, although I don't know if I would recommend it. There were some undeniable issues with the book, but it was entertaining enough to keep my interest, so do with that what you will. I give this a 5.5/10, rounded to a 6 for Goodreads.


TW: Cursing, the f-slur, nudity, fat-shaming

I have to be honest, I am so tired of books like this. The political commentary in this graphic novel is fine, as is its commentary on drug use and trauma, I suppose, but it's yet another very old-fashioned, sexist coming-of-age quotidian tale of a nerdy cishet boy and his even more sexist, horny young friends. The characters are unlikeable by design, which is usually not my thing, but the story itself isn't very engaging at all, either.