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Fruit Ninja & Jetpack Joyride HC
Based on the BILLION-times-downloaded game! The FRUIT NINJAS have mastered the art of Juice Jitsu (no, really!) which unlocks hidden powers through the slicing of fruit (seriously) so they can protect their neighbors from time-traveling super-villains! (still with us?)
An ANCIENT FRUIT NINJAS tale from a thousand years ago, featuring a PIG and a PEACH!
PLUS A JETPACK JOYRIDE tale featuring a dude with a jetpack battling flying hippos with buttercream-based weaponry! HOW did we fit ALL this ridiculously amazingly dumb stuff into ONE volume? PAY MONEY TO FIND OUT!
An ANCIENT FRUIT NINJAS tale from a thousand years ago, featuring a PIG and a PEACH!
PLUS A JETPACK JOYRIDE tale featuring a dude with a jetpack battling flying hippos with buttercream-based weaponry! HOW did we fit ALL this ridiculously amazingly dumb stuff into ONE volume? PAY MONEY TO FIND OUT!
80 pages, Hardcover
Published August 7, 2018
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September 26, 2018
While I am unfamiliar with the Fruit Ninja downloadable game, I can see where this colorful action-packed series of short stories might prove to be popular with young readers looking for a little light entertainment.
This is marked as Volume 1 and is divided into 3 broad sections: "Ancient Fruit Ninja", "Jetpack Joyride" and "Modern Fruit Ninja". Each section is then subdivided into shorter stories of various lengths. Occasional interludes between stories add depth of knowledge and/or gag humor to the characters. Note these subdivisions are not clearly identifiable within the text.
Violence is intimated by using words like "joing", "splat", and "crash", but actual contact is not shown -- only the swing/sling/kick and the results are on the paper. No blood is shed, instead lots of food fighting with residual debris. The stories have villains that are bad and heroes that come to the rescue. Full color artwork, some created digitally while others appear to be pen and ink and Photoshop. Artwork is exciting and full of detail. It is disappointing that there is a lack of diversity in the characters in the story; it reads very white. The only character of color is (Uncle) Gutsu, who appears to be Asian.
The format is a bit awkward in this unpaged volume. There is what appears to be a table of contents, however all it contains is author/illustrator credits and jumps into the first story which has no title. Readers will need to be vigilant to see "end" or "the end" at the end of a story. Many stories jump right into the next story with no title page, masthead or frame indicating this is a new story -- muchless the title of it. With no story titles, it is difficult to know how to point to any given story if you want to read it again. In future volumes, I would suggest for beginning readers to number the pages and mark the sections more clearly.
A fun choice for reluctant readers, grades 2-4.
This is marked as Volume 1 and is divided into 3 broad sections: "Ancient Fruit Ninja", "Jetpack Joyride" and "Modern Fruit Ninja". Each section is then subdivided into shorter stories of various lengths. Occasional interludes between stories add depth of knowledge and/or gag humor to the characters. Note these subdivisions are not clearly identifiable within the text.
Violence is intimated by using words like "joing", "splat", and "crash", but actual contact is not shown -- only the swing/sling/kick and the results are on the paper. No blood is shed, instead lots of food fighting with residual debris. The stories have villains that are bad and heroes that come to the rescue. Full color artwork, some created digitally while others appear to be pen and ink and Photoshop. Artwork is exciting and full of detail. It is disappointing that there is a lack of diversity in the characters in the story; it reads very white. The only character of color is (Uncle) Gutsu, who appears to be Asian.
The format is a bit awkward in this unpaged volume. There is what appears to be a table of contents, however all it contains is author/illustrator credits and jumps into the first story which has no title. Readers will need to be vigilant to see "end" or "the end" at the end of a story. Many stories jump right into the next story with no title page, masthead or frame indicating this is a new story -- muchless the title of it. With no story titles, it is difficult to know how to point to any given story if you want to read it again. In future volumes, I would suggest for beginning readers to number the pages and mark the sections more clearly.
A fun choice for reluctant readers, grades 2-4.
May 15, 2018
I received this for free, in exchange for an honest review. With thanks to Netgalley.
I really enjoy the Fruit Ninja comics. I think they are funny, well-drawn, beautifully coloured and entertaining.
I love the characters and the catchphrases.
This volume had issues with cohesiveness. There were lots of mini stories, not all of which fitted together. The main story about the Fruit Ninjas (and the ancient ones) were brilliant, but there was other mini comics that were randomly place between episodes, with no connection to those episodes. It spoiled the main story for me.
Overall though, I definitely want to continue reading these.
I really enjoy the Fruit Ninja comics. I think they are funny, well-drawn, beautifully coloured and entertaining.
I love the characters and the catchphrases.
This volume had issues with cohesiveness. There were lots of mini stories, not all of which fitted together. The main story about the Fruit Ninjas (and the ancient ones) were brilliant, but there was other mini comics that were randomly place between episodes, with no connection to those episodes. It spoiled the main story for me.
Overall though, I definitely want to continue reading these.
May 31, 2018
I couldn't see the comedy part in any page. This is just a collection of non-sense that tries to be funny and appealing. There is no storyline, no clear idea, no development, and despite the mix-random-things proposal works perfectly fine for the games, it does not for a comic.
I may be not the kind of public this comic aims for, but I certainly have read a couple of children-intended comics that really catched my attention and made me feel inside of them, to feel the characters, and this comic doesn't fit the description.
I may be not the kind of public this comic aims for, but I certainly have read a couple of children-intended comics that really catched my attention and made me feel inside of them, to feel the characters, and this comic doesn't fit the description.
May 9, 2018
DNF. I seriously doubt many fans of the games involved in inspiring this comic would actually have the patience to read it. I certainly didn't.
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