Book Review: Meka

Book: Meka (parts #1 and #2) by Jean-David Morvan with illustrations by Bengal

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

In a future where civilization is defended by giant, humanoid vehicles known as “Meka”, two pilots learn to deal with the consequences of their actions and the price of their unquestioning dedication to military duty as their vehicle is incapacitated in the center of a once-thriving city now turned interplanetary war zone!

Written by international creative powerhouse JD Morvan (Sillage, Zaya) and illustrated by French sensation Bengal (Meka, Luminae), this volume collects both books in the celebrated French BD series – “Inside” and “Outside” – into a single collected album, translated in English for the first time.


Rating: 1 star

Review:

This wasn't even remotely interesting. With most of the first part of the story relying heavily on the artwork to tell the story it produced a very confusing and boring story. It wasn't until the second part that I found out why these giant robots were shown fighting within the city.

In this futuristic story, the Meka robots are used as another tool of war with both sides using the robots to fight. When one of the Meka robots crash down in the city, two soldiers risked their lives to leave the immobile machine. But being out in the city wasn't any safer with the people who they were trying to protect angry at them for the reason so many of the citizens were dead.

But with another type of danger imminent the citizens are willing to asked the soldiers for help despite their huge and devastating loss.

This is not a book I see myself wanting to read again because it was really boring. I also didn't like the main characters, the two soldiers. They were both extremely unlikeable.

I guess it turns out that this just wasn't for me.