Ahoy there mateys! I just don’t get it. How is there a story here? I actually did enjoy the artwork but the story was fragmented. The blurb says that ” The magic and folklore of the wild, windswept North come alive in this book about an adventurous little girl and her habit of befriending anything, no matter how curious it might seem.” Hilda doesn’t befriend the troll and runs away from it and is scared. She also doesn’t like the little wooden man either. She learns the error of her ways because a) wooden man is nice to her and b) she hurts the troll because she failed to read the whole book before doing something impulsive.

Is this a trend with comics and graphic novels that I am unaware of? That the storytelling jumps around and I am supposed to somehow connect the dots? Perhaps it is just me weird non-visual noggin. I am beginning to think that graphic novels and I are not friends. But I am willing to take suggestions from the crew of graphic novels with a story in order to try again. I may like a different one but I am not holding me breath. Arrrr!

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