The Little Red Fish

I just thought this was OKAY. I liked the art style. It was very detailed and the colors and images were rich and descriptive. However, I didn't love the story. I enjoyed it but I just wasn't in love with it. I can definitely see people enjoying this and saw some parallels to society etc and thought all of that was well done. It just maybe wasn't for me.

Thats a fast read. It's an interesting story but its so short that you don't get much from it. I would like to read the whole story when its done.

This is the first time I have read a graphic novel and wasn’t sure quite what to expect. The art work was very well done and quite surrealistic. I particularly like the pockets on the sides of the main fish characters. The herons, with their stiletto sharp beaks look evil and dangerous, while the peaceful fish in the reef manage to convey happiness, fear, surprise, and determination by the shape of their eyes and the swish of their fins. Only the eagle, Manuchehr, is difficult to read. The fight scene is visually spectacular, but also rather difficult to follow – though the outcome is clear.
Having visited Iran about 10 years ago, and being very interested in all things Iranian, I was really looking forward to the story line. I would give the artwork a 5 out of 5, but the story so far only a 2. Unfortunately, I only received the first part of the tale, and it was too short to really come to grips with as an allegory of the Iranian Revolution. I would like to read the next five parts, and will hopefully then be able to rate this much higher. My advise to readers would be to wait until the whole story is published to get a real feel for the book.

Oh, I so liked this Finding Nemo with political twists! Moffitt has come up with a great idea - the story revolves around anthropomorphic fish and birds fighting for their right to exist and do what's in their nature. This means we have the fish, who need to survive when the birds want to eat them. The whole Orwellian atmosphere is wonderful and the comic is quite gloomy. The comic supposedly follows the Iranian Revolution, but it wasn't really evident - perhaps this first part just doesn't get us there yet. Still, I'd like to know why Moffitt chose these animals to portray the revolution and what effects them being animals have on this. I wish the animals, especially the fish, would have names. It's kind of hard to tell them apart and all in all the beginning is quite a mess. We are suddenly thrown into this underwater situation and none of it is explained. Nowadays this is quite common, sadly so - it's just extremely hard to get into the story and so much is happening and you don't know what that all is or even why.

The colors are quite dark and sad even. In a way I would've wanted more colors, since the ocean is amazing and vivid, but now just murky water. The colors are quite like those from the Soviet Union. It creates this depressing atmosphere, but at the same time it doesn't fit the animals. The line work is nice and I do enjoy the panels and angles in them. The comic surely has potential and surely if some of the mentioned things are corrected, this'll get that +1 star to it.

This graphic novel is an artistic interpretation of the Iranian Revolution using fish and birds. The art is beautiful. It reminded me of The Sign of the Seahorse by Graeme Base. I loved his books as a child and although there is some similar worldbuilding, this is a more adult book.

If you are more familiar with the historical events this novel reimagines, you will probably enjoy this more than I did. I did enjoy it even in my ignorance. I saw it more as a dystopian story, which it is but with more historical relevance.

The art is wonderful. There are a lot of great ideas in this first volume. I give this graphic novel a 4/5.

See, this is why I don't read single issues. I have to read at least 5 or 6 issues before I can form an opinion on a series opening. This was just a single and as such I just don't think I can form an opinion on characters, plot, or anything really not involving art style.

The style is prettyish. I felt like the colors were a little drab for some reason which seemed like an odd choice for fish that I assume are tropical.

Part of the reason I couldn't form an opinion on the plot was that much of the second half were images from an action sequence. Those don't always translate well to comic form, but I thought they did a good job here.

There just wasn't enough to make me want to pick up the rest of the series, but that is a bit much for 30 pages of content to do. Wish this had been a collection instead.

The Little Red Fish was beautifully illustrated. The attention to detail and the simplicity of story-telling made this comic a light and breezy read.

I found the art pretty, but overall it felt a bit 'flat' to me. Two dimensional. I mean, yeah, it's two dimensional. But you know what I mean. Dialogue was also a bit awkward. And I couldn't find myself sympathising with the fishies at all beyond a slight bit of pity. Still, that could be just due to my mood at the time of reading, might have affected better if I were in a more receptive mood. (Yes, I know it's an allegory.)