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Rust Vol. 1: Visitor In The Field (2011)

by Royden Lepp(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1936393271 (ISBN13: 9781936393275)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Archaia

series

Rust

review 1: This first volume gives us an intriguing glimpse at a new fantasy world. Robots helped win a world war, but where are they now and what are they doing? During the story, two converge on Ronan Taylor's family farm -- both pursuing the mysterious new arrival who never takes off his goggles. What is the boy hiding? The art is a little crude, and there isn't much to the story except a teaser for future volumes, but overall it's a good comic and a quick, fun read.
review 2: Fantastically beautiful graphic novel. The book opens in a battlefield, where humans and robots fight each other on both sides (how this came to be is explained about midway through the book, but it is not a man vs machine kind of thing). This part of the book is illustration only-showing the v... morearious types of fighting machines, both large and small, and jet-powered flying humans. Fifty years later and it is present day. The story is narrated by Roman, a young farmer, in the form of letters to his absent father (whose absence in not explained). We read that he is having increasing difficulty managing the farm on his own. So he is trying to rebuild a fighting machine from bits and pieces found on the land, which he will recode to be a farmer worker. He then goes on to explain that the workload has been eased of late by the presence of Jet Jones, a young man who appeared one day, shooting out of the barn, wearing a jet-pack, being chased by a two-story tall fighting machine. Together Roman and Jet stop the large robot, and Jet stays on to help out, fix the damage his fight caused, and eventually explain a few things about the war. Of course, he also keeps a few secrets from Roman and his family. The book ends with a cliffhanger, which I won’t reveal here, but it worked. I REALLY want to keep reading this series (of four books according to what I‘ve since read). This book appealed to all of us in my house-my 7-year-old My husband is still raving about it days after reading it. It is beautifully drawn, with sparse text, sepia tones. It has the feel of taking place in the prairies of the 1940’s or ‘50’s. Lovely. So glad I grabbed it from the library when I saw it. less

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