The Lost Robot h/c back

Heartfelt and Heavenly!

With which Joe has achieved Shaun Tan status in both purpose AND execution! Every scene, every panel is so visually eloquent, and gobsmackingly gorgeous to boot!

It's like a cross between Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing and Sara Varon's Robot Dreams; but, I promise, with a much happier ending!

Addressing both young ones and their guardians, I suspect, this is part poignant story of rejection - of unconditional love and loyalty, friendship and joy so sadly lost, and part stark exposure of our obscene level of waste as we give in to our green, greedy eyes and gobble up (for example) the latest deeply unneccessary and barely detectable cellphone upgrade while slinging the old model on our skybreakingly mountainous slagheap.

BUT WITH A MUCH HAPPIER, MORE CONSTRUCTIVE AND UPLIFTING ENDING.

You might call it friendship 'renewed'.

Make sure you peep under its already glorious dust jacket because YOWSA! both front and back!