Summer and Her Monkey is a series of seven short stories that are meant to show young readers the value of the Seven Virtues. Each chapter will have Summer and her doll, who comes to life in Summer’s Dreamland, go on wonderful adventures where she will learn the lessons of Faith, Hope, Charity, Fortitude, Justice, Prudence and Temperance.

Let me start this review by saying that this one is just a preview for the entire comic book. And I read it because I wanted to see if the full comic book was worth the money and time I would spend on it. And I’m gonna give you the answer for that at the end of this review.

I gotta admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of this comic book, because this comic book has a good premise but the way it is presented to us making very underwhelming and way too simple.

This comic book had the potential to be a good comic book since it has charm and adventure but the way it is presented to us, just makes this very boring and uninteresting.

I know that this one is just a preview of the full version of this comic book so it shouldn’t give us the whole narration of the full version of this comic book. But the way this preview presents the entire full version of this comic book makes me very uninterested to buy and read the full version of the comic book. 

The plot is pretty lighthearted story that aims to capture the innocence of childhood friendship. But the way the narration of this comic book presents the plot males to feel pretty disjointed and like lacks a clear direction.

The key plot points in this comic book feel pretty rushed which I’m never a big fan of, as some of you might know if you been around this website for while. 

The character in this comic book feel very one-dimensional, and the characters don’t have any personality. The characters are pretty shallow and generic for every children meant product like a comic book, normal book or a show / movie

The dialogues in this comic book often comes off as simplistic, missing the opportunity to convey the depth and emotion that could elevate the story for the readers.

The artwork is easily my favorite part of this comic book because the artwork offers a colorful and vibrant aesthetic which for as I already said is the only highlights of this preview. The artwork is very playful and visually appealing, capturing the playful essence of the characters even thou the characters doesn’t have a lot of essence in this comic book.

There are times when the artwork art feels disconnected from the story, leading to moments where the imagery does not effectively enhance the plot. Thats at least how it was for me as I was reading this one.

However the biggest issue I had with this preview is that it fails to establish a compelling hook which would make me want to buy and read the full version of this comic book. This preview doesn’t give me enough intrigue or conflict to make me interested enough to well buy and read the full version of this comic book which I already said a few dozen times so far in this review. 

So the conclusion is that I wont probably be buying and reading the full version of this comic book or at least not soon but maybe in the future at some point.

I Give This Book 2 / 5