One weekend I had no energy to do anything but move my eyes across a page, as I sat and turned pages of a book. Therefore, I sat on my porch, propped a book onto the table that lives there and read Unicorn Boy Volume One by Dave Roman. Which if the cutesy cover didn’t clue you in to the fact that it is a super fluffy and light book, the title would have. Not to say it is bad, but for an adult who had just finished the horror book Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin it is just what the reading doctors ordered.
Everything is cute, fun, and simple. There were no surprises, there was nothing I did not expect other than a few giggles at some bad jokes/puns or situations now and again. The characters are modern (sassy witches, shy unicorn boys, wild best friends) that are the perfect representations of being different (a “unicorn boy” and a nonbinary character, plus a Gran Reaper) without being pushy about it. Maybe it is a smidgen spooky (after all, I will never be able to eat a muffin again without making sure it can’t talk first), but overall the best way to describe it is nice. Everything is nice. The aged 8 to 10 year-old reader would be the best audience, but I can honestly see it going younger. Probably not much older (twelve would be the limit especially if they might be a reluctant reader) but that is it.
This graphic novel ends on a solid note making it so you do not have to go onto other books when they come out, but you can if you want to. And I might do so as I think I know who the Skull King might be (or was as they are dead or at least seem dead as they are ruling the underworld).