The first part of a well-drawn, very slow-moving, graphic novel memoir. It's the first collected part of an ongoing series, not a standalone, which I didn't realize going in. I really enjoyed the art, the humor, the stark differences between the affects of adult and child Axelle, the family relationships, and particularly loved the youngest brother. I think people who are already familiar with this author and their works might have more well-founded expectations and a better response to this, I'm not sure. Going in completely cold, it's quite slow, and since I don't know anything it's unclear what I'm meant to guess is real, metaphorical, or completely fictional—and since it turns out to be just the earliest intro, it's hard to tell yet if such a distinction is even important.

This is a really interesting, quirky spec-fic memoir/autobiography, and the art is pretty great. It moves a bit slow, though that's obviously deliberate and snarked on throughout the book itself. It didn't 100% work for me, but I can see what it's trying to do, and I know plenty of folks will love it. (I will say, in terms of the eARC, that the text was a bit blurry unless enlarged to 200+%, at which point scrolling lag kicked in...this made the reading experience WAY less seamless and immersive than it otherwise would have been.)