Take a 2003 protest album and turn it into a graphic novel: that's basically what the creators of this book were tasked to do.Personally, I'm not an ardent Neil Young fan. I enjoy quite a few of his songs, but I only ever bought one of his albums and that was a greatest hits album back in the 90s. So, I really had no preconceptions walking into Neil Young's Greendale.Whatever the album is about, the graphic novel is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Sun Green. She comes from a long line of G...

This is a puzzling and disappointing piece of work. While the concept is intriguing, and there's no doubt that the artwork is gorgeous, however, the story is two-dimensional at best, and struggles to find its footing. Given that this was based on a concept album by Neil Young, there was always the chance that there was bound to some pieces of puzzle lost in translation - especially given the less then stellar introduction by the very man himself, who says hesitatingly "I mean I made it up and I

Really disappointed by this one. No substance or thought.

Why do supremely talented artists like Cliff Chiang so frequently attach themselves to other people's vanity projects like this utterly idiotic book? Turning a concept album into a graphic novel is a terrible idea, and unsurprisingly ends up as a bunch of strange, misshapen pieces disjointedly jammed together. Girls in a family have weird nature powers for some reason. A demon (or whoever the antagonist was supposed to be, it's never remotely explained) is lurking around being sinister. Iraq Wa

Maybe it’s because I haven’t experienced the other components of the “Greendale experience,” but this graphic novel seemed simplistic and under-developed to me. Although the artwork and the prose was beautiful, the plot was predictable and self-righteous. I was hoping for an insightful read, which I disappointedly did not get.

Evaluation based on advanced reader’s copy

Cliff Chiang's stunning artwork could probably command at least 4 stars all on its own. The story feels disjointed, though. Greendale is the story of Sun Green, a Northern California high school girl who comes from a family of earth goddesses (for lack of a better term). The women in her family seem to have some bizarre connection to the planet, and they are all stalked by Randall Flagg some weird devil guy who controls events using his harmonica. Come to think of it, he does look a little like

What a bunch of happy hippie horseshit, complete with a dizzying array of supporting characters I don't give a wet fart about. Fuck Bush all you want, man, but leave me out of your cheesy eco-friendly back-to-the-roots-of-white-people wet dream. I've checked the movie out of the library numerous times but never had the stomach to finish the first scene. Probably won't even check it out now after reading this political-propaganda/cutesy-consumerist cardboard crap.

You're better off reading Wildwood by Charles de Lint or anything by Sheri S Tepper.

Love Cliff Chiang his art is amazing but the story was just too bland for me.

Unfocused, does not really stand alone from the albumI'd never heard of Neil Young's Greendale album before I picked up this graphic novel, but I decided the premise was interesting enough that I gave it a chance. Greendale might be your cup of tea if you like your reading material to touch upon tons of ideas but develop none of them. This book is a coming-of-age, anti-war, anti-importing-oil, anti-drilling-for-more-American-oil-so-we-don't-have-to-import-it, anti-big-electricity, anti-m...

This suffered from extremely klunky writing. There were a lot of interesting ideas like a genetic, matrilineal chain of earth magician women, but hippie rambling and anti-Bush foot - stomping made it all ring way too hollow. The nostalgia for the 60s was painful in the extreme, the California eco-fantasy was irritating to slog through, and the Iraq war/Enron anger/oil economy protest was too thin to engage. I don't know if it was Niel Young's writing that was so awful or the adaptor of his album...

I did not enjoy this graphic novel at all. What could have been a good story (although a bit preachy) was hampered by too much reliance on graphics instead (not in addition) to words. I frequently felt like I was being asked to solve some sort of visual puzzle to figure out what was going on. I am quite sure I missed many parts of the story due to this. If I want to solve puzzles I will pick up one, I don't want to have to guess at what the author is trying to say.

What a fascinating companion piece to Neil Young's album (which I listened to for the first time while I read this). It's an interesting tale of environmentalism and activism and spirituality. With an engaging story and great art. Recommended.

The artwork is gorgeous, but the story remains just as dippy (and continues to not make a lick of sense) as its aural and cinematic counterparts. Go figure.

Broad in scope and ambitious in intent, 'Greendale' however falls short in its placement and introduction of phenomena. Events, while fascinating, read as arbitrary or as incomplete thoughts. In the intro, Neil Young writes "I made it up and I don't know what the hell is going on, so don't feel bad if you feel a little out with this." Given the superb quality of the prose and the art, I do feel bad for feeling a bit 'out of it' with this book. It felt like it should have been 100 pages longer, b...

I picked this up because the first few pages caught my attention. I liked the story and the artwork ... but I wasn't aware that this was a "thing." A movie, an album, a movement of sorts. And maybe that's where I got lost. It wasn't until the last quarter of the book that I started to feel like I was missing something. Something I never found.Maybe it's because I'm not a Neil Young fan. But I am a huge tree-hugger, so you'd think I would have been able to pick up what they were puttin' down. Oh,...

Superb!Sun Green: "Can I hug you, great-grandma?"Mahalia Green: "If it'll get you to shut the hell up."ha hah ha! I loved this book, extremely well written and flawlessly illustrated. Encourages environmental and social responsibility without being too preachy. Both fantastic and realistic, the story is at times mythic all while remaining down to earth.Superb!

Nice art, boring story. As something of a radical leftist you'd think I'd be all over this, but nope. Flat/cliche characters, totally predictable arcs, awkward pacing. I did enjoy the touches of magical realism, and of course I liked the dream sequences because yay, cervidae! Oh well. At least it's a fast read.

I felt like this graphic novel was everywhere and nowhere. The main character speaks loudly of political and environmental activism and human rights for all, but the level of diversity and inclusion in the book is extremely low.