Customer Reviews

Hollow Fields Vol. 1

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If you don't have great eyes for close objects, do not bother getting this for your Kindle. I found it somewhat challenging to read, in excellent light.

That said -- this is a great graphic novel! The main story reaches a conclusion in three volumes -- this is volume 1. Fifty packed pages, filled with great art, and lots of tiny text. I think they could have sized this slightly better -- for soemthing like this, white bordering should be minimized as much as possible. I've added a screenshot of a Kindle page as a sample.

This is dark, but lighthearted. There are zombies, grave-robbers, and killer robots, but everything is mostly light-hearted throughout. I was reminded somewhat of The Venture Brothers, Fullmetal Alchemist, Girl Genius, and Invader Zim so far as the dark styling goes. Plus, all of these other series have a vaguely similar treatment of mad science.

To start, Lucy Snow accidently goes to the wrong boarding school, and signs a contract. The school looks much better than she expected -- and the coursework is much stranger. Her immediate thoughts are to leave, but then she is reminded of the contract. One of the dangers is detention -- each week, the lowest performing student is sent to detention, and is never heard from again.

I found the start to be slow going. Things pick up considerably once Lucy picks up a cube at the library. After that, I had trouble stopping, and picked up the other two volumes. Read them all straight through. This is one of the better graphic novels that I've read.

a great manga. interesting story, good charecters i realy liked reading it. i will definetly be reading the next book.

It looks yucky on my DX. The publisher overdid it with jpg compression, and threw out most of the artwork detail. The lettering got hit even worse, my strained eyes gave up reading in a few pages.

Try the free preview, maybe the graphics have been fixed up since this un-review.

I was looking forward to
reading this book - unfortunately it is so small in the Kindle edition that my 51 year old eyes cannot make out the teeny tiny letters. Also, not being a teenager, I had no idea that "magna" means "comic book" in today's vernacular.

So, save yourself the aggravation and get a hard copy. I'm sure the artwork will be more fully enjoyed in it's naturally intended medium: paper.