![]() ![]() Young squeezes a lot of story into a very short book, including a denouement that includes its own mini-plot, using up space that could have gone to developing the main story. The issue with tension/stakes is more a pacing problem than anything else. When Hamal finally does have to make a sacrifice, it is immediately undone because the main antagonistic force of the comic is, in her own words, “a sucker for cheesy romance novels.” But a novel can have a happy ending and still make its characters work to get there. Whenever a conflict enters the plot, it is resolved almost immediately without any tension, problem-solving, or sacrifice from the main characters. Personally, I wished that Taproot had higher stakes. And why not? If Taproot was going for fluff, it achieved exactly what it set out to do, and I highly recommend it. Taproot is a cotton candy sweet story - 100% fluff. ![]() Through the story, we learn why, and the price of fixing it - and of course, Hamal and Blue get a happily ever after. ![]() One day a creepy forest on another plane of existence begins to interrupt all the ghosts in town, summoning them there seemingly at random, then plopping them back on earth. Blue pines for Hamal, but doesn’t know how to express it - and doesn’t think there’s any point, anyway, since he’s dead. Taproot is a lighthearted comic about Hamal, a gardener who can see ghosts, and his friend Blue, one of several ghost hangers-on at the nursery where he works. Trigger warnings: car accident (not depicted in scene), vaguely spooky - they are ghosts, after all ![]()
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