Can't believe it's taken me this long to read 'Midas Flesh' (or why it's taken this long for Boom Studios to release a full collection), but it's worth a read for some of the bonkers elements. Pacing and world building could be a little better.

Midas was OK. I didn't especially enjoy it nor did I dislike it. The concept is amazing and the catastrophic way the Midas' power was used was epic.

I liked the art, it was very minimal but clean. The dialogue was OK. Some panels were filled with blocks of text which could have been more concise. Most of the jokes fell flat for me but that might be because this was written with a middle grade audience in mind. The story itself dragged a bit. So many things were happening but at the same time it felt like nothing was achieved.
The world building didn't make any sense, to the point I wish they didn't explain anything and kept it a space fantasy.

I'd recommend this to someone who was a child or was buying it for a child.

Fun writing and great artwork are a bit overshadowed by a silly premise. I felt more writing was fit into the page count than you typically see in comics, which was refreshing.

Extremely long for a graphic novel! This is probably very enjoyable for many people, but I prefer shorter graphic novels, especially youth-oriented ones. That said however, the mythology and the banter between the main groups of friends was enjoyable (except for one unfortunate nickname). Solid read.

This book is sort of Star Wars meets mythology meets space pirates meets Jurassic Park. Heck, one of the main characters is a DINOSAUR!

Okay, let me stop freaking out a bit so that I can give a good review.

This book really had it all. The combination of mythology and science was creative and intriguing. The art was fantastic (although viewing the cover should clue you into that). The characters? Awesome.

I won’t spoil any of the fast-paced plot for you, but like I said above–Star Wars meets mythology meets space pirates meets Jurassic Park. And it was great. I read it in an hour, because I wanted to know what happened next. I also think the graphic novel format lends itself well to fast reading–it’s like reading a film. While most of the art sticks to a warmer toned format, with splashes of purple, there is a lot of variety. The characters show great motion, and the landscapes are well-done. There’s a lot of good storytelling here.

The characters are quite fun. The main trio of protagonists are Joey, Fatima, and Cooper. I think it’s really great that two of the main characters are gals (Joey and Fatima, called Fatty by her friends), and that Fatty wears a hijab. Representation! And Cooper is the aforementioned dinosaur. The three of them have a great dynamic with each other. Joey is the captain of their spacecraft, and she’s pretty interesting–some of her choices can be a little morally ambiguous. Fatty is pretty headstrong, and Cooper is practical but also memory driven. The three have a great rapport, and no matter what, they stick together.

The villains are also very interesting, and Dionysus is a…fun character, to say the least. Also, having dead Midas float around is kind of fun.

I could write about this book for ages, but I definitely hope that there’s another one coming. I loved this, and I’m so happy that I got it off of my NetGalley wishlist 🙂

Oh! Also, at the end of the book, there’s some concept art and alternate covers drawn by others. They were all so cool. I have so much respect and awe for artists. They do the coolest stuff!

Overall, I one hundred and ten percent recommend Midas. Pick it up!

I don't think I'm the right audience for this book. Although I found the artwork to be amazing, I found the story a lacking and it just didn't pull me in.

When I read something by Ryan North, especially with his Adventure Time collaborators on art, I expect upbeat. This isn't that. Starting (well, almost) with Midas' touch turning the whole Earth to dead gold, it then takes us into a future where your usual evil galactic federation is oppressing everyone, and three desperate rebels are trying to retrieve Midas' body to use as a planet-killer against them. The bleakest, most genocidal, war-is-hell side of Star Wars, in other words. Which makes the cute art and glimpses of typically North dialogue* feel weirdly out of place. And even as the plot increasingly hinges on the sort of extreme problem-solving he usually does so well, there are a couple of places I'm not sure the rules are being consistently applied. It's certainly not bad as such, but I feel a little like a kid who's been watching Peppa Pig videos online and has suddenly ended up with one of those weird generated ones where she's eating a pregnant Spider-Man or something.

*"Yes. Well. They're going to be buried in space now. They will be space plants. It is honestly the most exciting death a plant could hope for."

(Netgalley ARC)

Midas was such a fun graphic novel! I loved everything about it, the characters, the action, the plot! It's unlike anything I've ever read before, I definitely recommend it for teens and adults alike.

This one truly sounded up my alley, Mythology? Added with space? Sure, sign me up. Seeing Midas again with his ridiculous superpower of turning things gold (which sounds like a terrible idea in the long run, but hey, I can somehow also understand that he wanted that). However it was so utterly boring. At first I got much further as we still had the Midas POV, but that all ended when x happened. The space stuff? Yawn. So much dialogue. I don't mind that generally, but it just didn't fit with this story, I believe a ton of it could have easily been cut away and make it all much more fast-paced.

Now I just stranded 1/4 of the book in. And yes, I tried. I tried so many time. I have had this book for a few months now, and every time I try, then get bored and drop it again, but today I wanted to give it one more shot. I got further than usual, so I got that going for me, but yeah. :(

Also it didn't help that I had to zoom in at times to read the huge wall of text. My eyes already are not a fan of reading on a PC, but having endless dialogues in blurry-ish text.. not working.

The art was pretty nice, and well, also one of the reasons why I wanted to try out this book.

In the end, giving it 2 stars. 1 for the art. 1 for Midas and the interesting thing that happened to earth.

I love Ryan North's work quite a bit and that is why I requested this book. Ryan North does not disappoint in the dialogue, quips and jokes department and truly delivers on the action and adventure side of things. The book is so fast paced, I can't imagine any reader could be bored by this exciting story.

It was interesting space opera take on the Midas mythology. it was kind of scary and tense that Mida's flesh would be used as terrorist weapon of sorts which I feel is what makes the narrative unique.

I don’t think I was the right audience for this one.

Pros: Although I had trouble weeding through some of the dialogue for important info, the plot is very interesting when you get into the thick of it. It starts off slow and dialogue heavy, but it picks up eventually, a little bit at least. The writing definitely gets better the more you read, and I think I’m judging this more harshly because I’m a fan of Ryan North’s other work. Overall, this might be a good comic for some junior readers looking for a sci-fi adventure story, I just can’t get over how incredible slow and drawn out it is. I don’t see many kids having the attention spans to get into this.

I like that there’s some diversity in the cast of characters, and of course the dinosaur is great. I also liked the pages that were just panels of wordless illustrations. If the illustrations/colors were better, those pages would be gorgeous and powerful. Paz & Richard was also great, I can’t say anything negative about that one. The art was better than the rest of the comic.

Cons: First thing I noticed was the art. I’m not crazy about it, and the colorist basically just did flat colors like in a paint by numbers. Honestly, the art is the main con for me. It’s very distracting and seems like someone just quickly threw something together. I know they can’t draw the entire comic again, but I bet even changing the colors would improve this book. Shading and detail would do wonders for the flat colors. The variant issue covers by John Keogh (and the other artists) are wonderful, and I’m curious as to why they didn’t go with something more like that.

I didn’t know that this was a junior’s book when I started reading, but I can see it now. Some of the pages seem a bit tedious for kids though. And are our main characters the good guys?? It’s hard to tell sometimes. It’s also difficult to fully judge them because we don’t really get much in the way of background for these characters.

There also seems to be a lot of filler. A lot of dialogue that could be reduced or completely removed. I love Ryan North, and I really enjoyed his Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comics and the Howard the Duck crossover, but I just didn’t see his voice or style in this one. Half the time I felt like he was holding the reader’s hand, the other trying to confuse us. It just seemed to go on and on, a lot of the panels being unimportant or uninteresting.

Where this story is short on character development and emotion, its fast pace and strong imagery will be popular with some readers.

An extremely intriguing read! I really enjoyed the combination of mythology and science fiction! The artwork was great and I also enjoyed the characters and their banter, especially between Midas and his peers. (Though, I did not enjoy Fatima being nicknamed Fatty. It seems really mean.) The only other thing, aside from the nickname, I had a problem with was that seeing as this book is geared toward middle grade, I think that younger readers might be a little lost on the more heavily scientific parts of the book.

Midas sounded interesting for I'm a big fan of Greek mythology. Mythology combined with space odyssey surely is something! Cooper, Fatima and Joey are off to Earth that has turned into solid gold for some reason. Our heroes find the cause for this, a dead body of an old dude - King Midas. It all comes back to mythology and how Midas wished for the touch of gold and it surely happened so. The group gets a finger, but soon others are on the hunt too, since the possibilities are endless and soon the universe is dying. The scientific approach of how Midas will eventually destroy everything was interesting and how it was combined with the mythological aspect and Dionysus etc. The problem is that the comic is too long and there's too many talking heads and nothing really happens in it. Half of the comic would've sufficed and the text walls eat most of the art basically gone.

The art looks nice and cute even, which is odd in a sense, since this is a grave and heavy comic. The color world is beautiful with lots of read and orange. Our characters lack persona, but they surely look good. The cover looks like this could be an adventure comic for kids or teens, but no. The comic is more philosophical and scientific though and for older readers. So, the contradiction is quite heavy. I'm not saying Midas is bad, but it could've used some polishing in different ways, so that it wouldn't have been so all over the place and nowhere at the same time. The potential is there.

Dinosaurs, Greek legends, space, and more! This children's graphic novel has a little bit of everything that will attract many readers (adults included).

Midas explores a "what-if" scenario in which the fabled King Midas is the catalyst for the end of the world with his ill-fated wish to turn everything he touches into gold. This page-turning outer space epic set in a future where Earth is gilded forever in time pits a rag tag group of heroes against an evil federation, both intent on using the recently rediscovered destructive power of Midas' touch to wipe each other out. The three heroes -- Fatima, Cooper, and Joey -- find themselves facing the difficult decision of fighting for their beliefs and their own lives, or fighting for the fate of the universe as they realize the possible repercussions of releasing something as deadly and far-reaching as Midas' weaponized, gold-bearing flesh.

Despite the overall dark themes of this story, Midas is peppered throughout with humor and wit, keeping the banter between characters light in the face of dire situation after situation. Dialogue is engaging and believable (even as delivered by an anthropomorphic dinosaur scientist), and all of the characters were richly developed in both personality and illustration despite the relatively short timeline of the action. Overall, a really fun, ridiculous read that I am still trying to wrap my brain around.

Joey, Fatima, and Cooper are traveling through space. Destination: Earth, a planet completely covered in gold and dead for countless years. But what the space team uncovers is huge: the ultimate weapon, the one that killed the whole planet is King Mida's body! As more teams are searching for it (and not everyone wants to use it to do good), will the team be able to give earth a second chance?

Midas is an amazing story to read. Wonderfully narrated, it is full of intelligent characters and hilarious situations. The illustrations work in perfect harmony with the story, and the result speaks for itself: Midas is an enjoyable, absolute must-read.

Definitely recommended for all fans of graphic novels 0 this will be an amazing addition to every collection.

Midas is a graphic novel written by Ryan North. The illustrations were done by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb. The plot of this graphic novel revolves around a small group of space explorers who come to Earth to find the reason it has turned to gold centuries ago. They find the corpse of King Midas and there starts their exploration of how he turned Earth to gold. They fight those who want to abuse the power of King Midas and in the end there comes to the re-creation of the universe and life in it.

I found the dialogues in this graphic novel were very poorly written. They were quite childish, simple and unrealistic. The graphic novel is ment to be a middle-grade and yet I have stumbled upon so many things that in my opinion are not on a middle-grade reading level. (Possible spoiler in the next sentence.) I sincerely doubt that a child reading this graphic novel would for example understand what the subatomic level is and why perhaps it could or could not turn to gold.

Also, I was a bit confused with the decision to nickname Fatima Fatty. Why even give her a nicknames if you couldn’t think of something not offensive?

There is one more thing I cannot look over. I really dislike the way they portrayed greek mythology in this graphic novel. I do not see the need to create new characters with names that don’t even sound like they belong in greek mythology when there are already incredibly interesting characters in it. Also, I found the fact that the giant spaceship was named Titanic extremely cringy.

The art in the graphic novel was okay, cute, but it was not spectacular. And because of all these things I cannot say I enjoyed this graphic novel. Even if you disregard all the negative things I said about it, I still would not have enjoyed it very much. It wasn’t gripping, I quickly lost my focus and was simply bored.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a pretty amazing story.

Suppose that when King Midas wish that everything he touched, turned to gold, that mean not that when he used his hand to touch something, but everything that touched him, including the air he breathed. And each molocule, in turn, would change things to gold, if it was touched, and so on, until the whole world, including King Midas were turned into gold.

And on that day, all life on earth died. And although gold was still rare through the rest of the universe, it was not so on earth. And so the galactic government, hid the planet, and didn't allow anyone to approach it, until our heroes did. And that is where the story begins.

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4905" src="https://g2comm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-2.35.31-PM.png" alt="Midus" />
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The crew wants to solve the mystery of the gold planet, and discover why it has been hidden so long.

Along the way, there is evil and adventure, and gods. All good fun.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.