The story told here is pretty simple, and at first I was not a fan of the almost Popeye-like method of sketching, but the more I turned the pages the more it grew on me. Text is sparse, but the images presented manage to tell a story more thoroughly than most people can with words.

It also resonated with me because it's about a poet who is shanghaied into a ship's crew and made to work manual labor, though for the character in the book it seems to work out better, despite a few traumas.