Just Finished Reading- WORST Graphic Novel Ever

Girl mechanic, whom everyone seems to mistake for a boy, named Jo[sephine] wishes she was like 'normal' girls. She pieces together junkyard scraps in the shape of a person, which subsequently gets electrocuted and comes to life. She teaches robot, Galahad, how to read and he learns to communicate through a speak-n-spell.

Fine. That's all fine and I can flow with the story. When reading a story like this (or sci-fi or fantasy), one must let go of reality as one knows it and accept that these things happen.

I started having borderline angry feelings when the popular girls she wants to hang out with pick on her for reading. When one girls asks what she’s good at and Jo replies “fixing cars,” the other girl says, “No, that’s not what I mean. … You have really nice skin. People would kill for skin like yours. Let’s go with that.” I’m rolling my eyes, like where are these girls from? It was total bullshit.

Suffice it to say the end of the books gets “out of control.” Her drunk-ass policeman father comes home to rape her at gun point, Galahad rescues her, Jo and Galahad are about to drive out of town when her father catches up with them, a fist-fight ensues between father and daughter, other cops arrive and arrest Jo for assaulting an officer (her father, who was punching her lights out in front of them), father sets the auto garage and Galahad on fire, Galahad escapes, tries to bust Jo out of jail, Jo’s father tells her he’ll shoot her of she leaves, Jo says “go ahead”, father ends up shooting Jo’s mother, Jo shoots out both her father’s kneecaps and hand, drives off with Galahad in stolen police car, get stopped on bridge, sniper in helicopter shoots Jo’s shoulder, Jo whimpers about not wanting to die, Galahad grabs helicopter and smashes it into bridge, Jo and Galahad sink to the bottom of the river. Everyone assumes Jo died (she didn’t) and she starts a new life somewhere else.

And the artwork was sufficient but not the greatest. In the first chapter of the book, it looks as though Marvit draws Jo a different face in each panel. And the emotion attempted to be conveyed though Galahad’s eyes weren’t nearly expressive enough. I never knew whether he was confounded, curious or complacent.

This is a WARNING not to spend the $36.00 on this. And I notice that the stinkin’ price just went down on Amazon to $28.76. Seriously, that’s still too much. If anyone wants my copy bad enough, I’ll mail it to you. In FACT, I think we should all pass it around and leave comments in the book about how shitty it is.