Never trust a book by its cover. The one we get here suggests a simple story of a boy and his robot. What we get is something else utterly, utterly different – more like Mad Max 5: The Cyborgs and Angels Have a Biff – and is utterly, utterly incomprehensible. Every scene seems shoe-horned into the least helpful place in the plot imaginable. Bodged. And then some.

This wasn’t it for me. Some aspects of this story interested me in the beginning, but it feels like they did the art first, and then the story was just thrown together. The story seemed to drift so much that at times I wondered if this was the same book.

This graphic novel contains mentions of attempted rape, woman being referred to as breeders, and seems to be going in the direction of siblings having a romance.

The plot is really interesting and it started out really good but I lost the story somewhere in the middle and stopped making sense to me. But the graphics are super and the color palette is great. I kept on and turning the pages even after I lost interest in the story, just because of the graphics. The faces especially look so realistic, I loved it, and the whole futuristic vibes with robots and all, this was my favorite part of the graphic novel. I wish the story was a bit more gripping.

Thanks so much to Netgalley, and the publishers for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

A visually stunning exploration of futurism. I appreciated the artistic design and visceral storytelling in this book.

The world has ended. I has been invaded by technological, angel-like beings who are currently searching for someone on the planet. A group of survivors is struggling. Joshua and his friends are bullied by the leader's grandson who is cruel to everyone including his own father. Joshua and his father do not get along because he will not tell him about his mother. His father and a group go out to find out what is happening with their water supply and are attacked by the aliens. The leaders order that women are taken from the lower class to become breeders. I am curious who the aliens are looking for and what will happen next.

Elecboy presents a devastated cityscape being attacked by a mysterious creature. Causing the sacrifice of an unknown character.

Some years later, the reader is presented with an American southwest setting, inhabited by humans who struggle to survive in a kind of post-apocalyptic world. Still being attacked by some extra-terrestrial creatures.

Elecboy has the perfect amount of science-fiction, mythology, far west stories, etc. What failed me was how the female characters are viewed and treated in the story. Mostly as breeding creatures and/or as the reason for two men to fight.