This title has an amazing cover which will likely draw readers in. However, I found myself a bit bored while reading it. I think it will keep the attention of its middle grade audience while also teaching about the legend of King Midas.

This book has so many of the pieces I like but they just didn't come together super well for me. It also feels like some aspects would be more appealing for a middle grade audience but several other aspects are more mature (like all the fake swearing). Additionally, it seems like the author started with "how would Midas's power work in a scientific sense" and built out from there which meant that some aspects of the character writing were less well-developed than I would hope. Still pretty fun.

Very fast paced and a graphic novel to pick up in between books. I wasn't as invested in the story or the characters as I feel there was an entire backstory I has possibly missed? I loved the concept though, come on, talking dinosaurs in space? The story is very straight forward so if you're looking for something quick to get through with little commitment in world building give this a try.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this book.
I really enjoyed the illustrations, however I didn't liked the story line that much. It got me a bit bored and characters were too bland: good guys/bad guys. It could have been way deeper than just being a bad or good person. However I really liked the mythology and the creativity,

I was drawn to this graphic novel because I loved Ryan North's work on the Adventure Time comics and it was really great to see him work on an original story. A very fun tale full of magic and adventure and featureing really lovely art and bright, vibrant colors, ideal for fans of Adventure Time, Lumberjanes, and Percy Jackson.

Fascinating! Fun artwork and a captivating plot. The folklore twist was a nice inclusion, and it made it something all the more memorable.

Loved this it was really fun artwork and a fresh storyline. Super thrilled to keep tabs for further installments in the series if it continues in!

I really enjoyed the theme and folklore spin on this, it reminded me of a children's version of The Expanse. Interesting side stories and character conflicts, but the ending and story arc fell a little flat.

I am always scared a little bit when I am reading something published by Boom studios, because it's either super-awesome interesting story, or boring, lgbt-forced thing, that I can't even finish. This was amazing. It was super-fun, I got dinosaurs, which I love, I got amazing and extraordinary characters I fell in love with, and that artwork was really great to look at! Recommend to children and adults, who likes space stories, dinosaurs or good-written Geek mythology.

This book has something for everyone. Like space? We got you. Love to read about adventures? Yeah, they’re here. Like seeing friendships grow? Woop, here they are! What about factually correct myths? Wel… this book nails some myth details, however, big things (like a god’s mother) are complete lies.

PSA: if you’re going to write about myths, make sure you ain’t spewing nonsense – this is how people came to think that the Kraken is associated with Poseidon.

But other than that, everything about this book is virtually perfect – the story is fun, the characters are great and the art looks out of this world.

Rating: 4 stars

“This is definitely a real thing that is happening in my life due to the really excellent decisions we’ve made!”

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC, in exchange for an honest review. Holy Sh*t this was amazing! Beautiful artwork, distinguished voices, Greek Gods, dinosaurs, evolution OMG.... it’s like the kitchen sink, just throw everything and watch it work! Superb! I am recommending to all of my graphic novel readers of all ages. There is something for everyone in this! Yes yes and more yes!

This graphic novel is a quirky mix of sci-fi, re-told myth, and dinosaurs. It's interesting in that respect, and I definitely know some kids will get a kick out of space-ship dinos, but some of the meatier parts of this concept are side-stepped. King Midas was real, and he turned everything to gold. So centuries later there's an evil empire, and a group of resistance fighters who want to weaponize the body (statue?) of Midas. It's a great concept, but we don't really delve much into the greater world building like you might with a bigger series, and at times the dialogue can cram a little too much in.

This has been repackaged in 2019 as Midas by BOOM! and I received it from NetGalley. But it the update doesn't exist on Goodreads and I'm not sure why it has been repackaged or reissued. This was pretty terrible. The illustrations were great but the story line was really bad. There are bad guys and there are bad good guys and there are good guys. Setting a weapon loose on an entire planet to stop the "bad" guys is a bad guy move. This is a very surface level comic and the writing is not great. Even for middle grade. But Vol 2 is available from KU so I may read it. Maybe the bad good guys will turn out to be good guys.

This was actually quite good, but I'm not much of a graphic novel reader -- mostly I choose them for my elementary library and I have less trouble reading middle grade graphics. I guess it's kind of unfair to say the art was too good/too complex and same with the dialogue? That's why I don't seem to do well with adult graphics, there's too much going on and I can't separate my brain. This read a lot more YA, the dialogue was witty and sometimes a bit of a reach for a middle grade audience. I think my teens at home would love this book, the space-opera premise is fun and the dead guy jokes are on point. I probably have a few sixth graders I'd recommend it to, but they'll have to get it from the public library.

Eh. This was an okay comic. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't amazing. I thought the art was appealing, which is what drew me in, but the plot ended up being better in concept than in play. I've had this in my read pile for a long time and I didn't feel that picking it up satisfied me.

This was such a fun and entertaining read with gorgeous illustrations. I will absolutely be recommending this title to our juvenile and youth patrons!

Thanks NetGalley for granting my wish and letting me read this!

This was an okay comic. I thought it was going to be a standalone graphic novel instead of a series of comics, as I actually read an ARC that contains both volume 1 and 2 of the comics but is not specified anywhere.

I enjoyed it and it was entertaining, but I am not interested enough to continue it, so I'll leave it here. The main idea behind the story is good, although I never seemed to click with the characters and get involved with both them and the plot.

All in all, not really my cup of tea, but I'm sure it can be appealing to a lot of other people.

This was a really interesting take on the myth of King Midas. The artwork was very interesting and I thought it was colored very nicely as well. I was a little confused while reading it because some things aren't really explained, but overall it was an enjoyable read.

This was a really fun take on the myth of King Midas. I really loved the artwork and the coloring was very nicely done as well. Our three heroes (two ladies and a dinosaur) start out their adventure by finding a planet made entirely of gold. They face gods, evil people, and many adventures along the way. There are people that want to take the special gold and turn it into a weapon to use it to gold-ify other planets and essentially suffocate them. I very much enjoyed this book and I really only had a small issue with the beginning. Not much is explained about what is going on so it's a tiny bit confusing but it didn't take long to figure out what was going on so I still ultimately enjoyed the book. I would recommend this to fans of books that deal with myths and retelling of myths.

We all know the story of Midas. The Greek Mythology of a King who turns everything into gold with a simple touch. However, if you tell the story of Midas and include a little but of sci-fi and space battles, it turns out to be a whole other story.

Midas wished that everything he touches could turn into gold. However, Midas got his wish, but not in the way he expected. Because of the wish, everything he touched and everything that person/item touched and so on turned into gold instead. In other words, the entire planet turned into gold, frozen in time.

I always love a retelling of any greek myths and Midas was no exception. Midas was an interesting story that actually works. I never thought a Greek Mythology would work so well with sci-fi and space elements. It just works. It is interesting, but I kept thinking that some scenes were longer than needed and can be summed up a bit shorter as well. The characters were great and included a dinosaur as well (cool).

At the end, something happened and I got a bit confused on what was going on. I think I understand it now, but I’m not totally sure at all either. I’m can only comprehend it to the best I can.

Midas is really a cool story and I would safely assume that if you like Greek Mythology and sci-fi and space, you would probably like Midas as well.