Garbage night

by Jen Lee

Garbage Night . Simon est un chien qui vit avec ses deux meilleurs amis, un raton-laveur et un cerf, dans un jardin aride et dévasté. Ils passent leurs journées à piller le supermarché en ruines et attendent le retour de la sacro-sainte « Garbage Night », mais les semaines passent, et les poubelles restent désespérément vides.. Pendant une mission de récupération, ils rencontrent Barnaby, un autre chien abandonné qui leur parle de « l'autre ville », où les humains vivent peut-être encore. Poussé par la faim et la promesse de nourriture, le trio rejoint Barnaby et plonge dans l'inconnu.... Dans ce remarquable récit allégorique de la nature, de la liberté et de l'amitié, ces jeunes animaux vont s'efforcer de survivre aux périls d'un monde post-apocalyptique abandonné des hommes..

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

Paperback

Published April 12, 2019

Reviews

[Morel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the idea behind it. Just some kids trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Enjoyed the art style, the characters were fun. My biggest issue was the pacing. The story feels rushed.

[Rose Prescott-Voorhees · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm... pretty let down by this.

To start with, the art style is very cute. I like it a lot. Very furry webcomic vibes which I dug. The premise is pretty interesting and fun. But... nothing happens?

Simon is a dickhead, but then the prequel reveals his "friends" are dickheads too? Everyone's just an asshole, it's way too short for it to feel like the conflict actually meant anything, and way too short for it to even feel like character development. It was very odd. And the prequel made me dislike everyone more, lol.

The ending would have worked better if the meat of the story was better too. Bit of a shame.

[Z Szilagyi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the cute art mixed with the harsh world and topics. So much love!

[Chloé · Rating 1 out of 5]

Left with too many questions and wanting more even if I didn't quite enjoy the characters. The premise is great but with an asshole character (Barnaby) being such a dick to Simon's friends, and Simon being such a pushover doing absolutely nothing when his friends get bullied by this asshole (and them weirdly just... rolling with it and not standing up for themselves!?)... I couldn't get around to actually liking the story. I wanted more about why they are in their situation. What happened to the humans? What happens when they go into that other town? I'd guess they'd bump into Barnaby again at some point.

Anyway it felt like I only read a chapter of a multiple part story (only 70 pages long. Then a short story called "Vacancy" is tagged on after). After looking it up I could only find a "Garbage Night: Complete collection", but I couldn't find any pictures of pages suggesting the story continued in that one? Dunno, might have to see it at the library if they have it. If it is a longer story I'd consider reading that one instead.

I was expecting more from this but maybe I just have to accept this is just what it was lol