Saturday, September 06, 2025

Scott's Take: The Moon Is Following Us Vol 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo (illustrator), Mike Spicer (illustrator)

 

The Moon Is Following Us Vol 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo (illustrator), Mike Spicer (illustrator) is a graphic novel that is the first volume in a 2-volume series. Sometime in the past a little girl goes to sleep and never wakes up. She is not dead. She is just trapped in her dreams. Something has captured her mind and kept her there. So, her parents decided to go into her dream world and rescue her. If they die in her dreams they die in real life. Luckly, they are not alone. Her plushies (stuffed animals) in dream form are more than happy to help them save her. They must stop the Cascade and rescue their daughter.

 

This is an action-packed emotional tale despite the fact that the characters never grow past their archetypes. The frog character named Brio was my favorite.

 

The art is going to be controversial you will either like it or hate it. I found the art style choices to be good most of the time, but sometimes too exaggerated or too sketchy to make out clear details.

 

I found the book interesting, but not very original. I wish more was done to expand it. The ending is very interesting. I am curious on where the book goes from here despite the abrupt nature of the ending. The second volume will release eventually….

 

Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/4l04DHH

 

I read this through Hoopla via the Dallas Public Library System.

 

Scott A. Tipple ©2025

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