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The Adventures of Miru

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It's an odd story, not always easy to understand. Visually intriguing, though.

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A reasonable fist at a young fantasy comic, but one that takes five issues to not really get very far. A blue Pikachu crashlands, the village shaman works out it's a long-lost dragon that can augur all kinds of nastiness, so sends it, along with Mickie Mouse-meets-a-Bone-brother inside a robot, of all combinations, to find out more. Without going along too to help, because, you know, what they might find out would be too important for him to ever act on. It takes til issue 4 for font size to jump to giant and to prove this really is for the young tweenage market, but I don't think it's going to count for much. A pleasant half an hour as it is, and no more.

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A dragon named Miru crash lands on the world of Gaia with a case of amnesia. He then begins a journey with allies whilst being targeted by a creature known as Dr Monopoly. The graphics and text improve as the book progresses. The plot leaves a bit to be desired and does not explain well why the journey is occurring, why Miru looks nothing like other dragons (he is bright blue with a flash whilst the fire breathing dragons of past are proper dragons) and why Dr Monopoly is after him. Just average.

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Frankly, I'm not sure who the target audience is here...The Adventures of Miru seems like it should be a comic for kids (and is rated A for all ages), but seems to me more like a series made for adults who don't really know what kids like. It kind of reminded me of Invader Zim in tone (though not at all plot wise), which isn't a bad thing, it just kind of leaves me, again, confused.
The art gets better as the series progresses (or possibly, I just got used to it), but at the beginning I truly didn't like the art style. Admittedly, this was a very low quality ARC and that could definitely have something to do with it; on that note, the fact that EVERY PAGE was covered with like 10 watermarks made it incredibly difficult to read. This obviously won't be an issue with the printed version, but it was incredibly frustrating to try to read through the watermarks.

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Right off the top, the "Copyright... For Review only" watermark strewn across every page of my ARC was extremely distracting, particularly when trying to read the captions and speech balloons.

The overall artwork was inconsistent. It seems that portions of the comic were drawn by artists who had disparate views of the overall theme of the artwork. The cartoonish artwork and look of the main protagonist, Miru, did not seamlessly blend into the world that he crash landed upon.

The colour palate of the comic mainly consisted of a rather dull green, beige and grey, and it lacked the visual vibrancy one would expect from the world of Gaia.

The dialogue and interaction between the characters was stilted and stiff. Again, the Miru character simply did no gel with his rag-tag band of allies.

A tepid reading and visual experience. Instead, we have the beginnings of the misadventures of Miru.

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