Kid Koala - Nufonia Must Fall

Did anyone else pick this up? I've finally gotten around to listening/reading this properly, as opposed to just listening to the accompanying EP. Very enjoyable. I am no great reader of graphic novels, so YYMV, but worked really well for me.

The deal is that you get a 339 page book and a 16:26 minute EP. On the cd itself are the page numbers that correspond to the tracks. I just left each track on repeat for the duration of the time that I was reading the pages that it related to.

The story is a seemingly cutesy love story between an out of work vinyl-aholic robot and an overworked office girl. There is very little in the way of dialogue in the book, and I think little kids would love it, as the main protangonist is pretty adorable. However, I think it would work for pretty much anyone who has spent too much time listening to music, and isn't put off by the idea of reading a comic book about a robot falling in love. I wasn't, and I loved it.

You can see a trailer for the book here

Below is the Guardian review.

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Saturday May 10, 2003
The Guardian

Best known for his turntable skills and his stint as an opening act for Radiohead, DJ Kid Koala has now gone into print, assembling a low-key love story set in panels of muted black, white and grey. Malorie, an office worker, slogs along in a cubicle job, while a small unnamed robot works at a nearby deli. The lonely robot has the habit of carrying a record player wherever he goes to provide music for every occasion.

Fate intervenes and true love blossoms when Malorie finally takes off his headphones and shows him a world beyond vinyl: the crickets chirping and the sound of ships in the distance. There's no dialogue, but the book comes with a CD soundtrack that mixes the wheeze of organs with a few subtle turntable scratches: the result is a perfectly morose and occasionally transcendent accompaniment to this strange love story.

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