Rock Candy Mountain Volume 1 - Graphic Novel Adventure Comic Book | Perfect for Comic Collectors & Adventure Story Lovers | Great Gift for Readers & Book Club Members

One of the best reads for me this year. If you're looking for unique and different you can't go wrong with this. Good historical adventure, but with a dash of the religious supernatural (!) and funny dialogue. I'm sure no one else will agree with me, but it came across like a Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movie in terms of a quirky take on a historical time period. That soundtrack would suit it well. In any event, if you liked that movie you'll love this comic.Hobos travel and work. Tramps travel and don't work. Bums? Well, they don't do either. Just one of the many historical lessons you'll learn along the way. I haven't read anything in comics this good about hobos and trains since the excellent Castaways The Castaways, or even Bluesman Bluesman Complete. Johnny Cash would be proud. The main protagonist, kind of a zen warrior of hobos with a mysterious past, travels the rails during the 1940s in search of a mythical hobo nirvana (Big Rock Candy Mountain). Or at least that is the best as we can tell for now as the story unfolds. As he pursues Candy Mountain he finds himself in turn pursued by the FBI, the hobo mafia, and even the devil himself.The artwork is a little cartoonish, but still based more in traditional comic art. Not quite as cartoonish as a Scott Morse in "Volcanic Revolver", but close. Style works well once you get into it, good composition and flow. Nicely colored. Highly entertaining and very hard to find anything at all to criticize but for an overanbudance of cursin'. Of course, once you do some reasearch on the original lyrics for Big Rocky Cany Mountain you'll see his tone is not too far off.