The Dam Keeper: Return from the Shadows

The Dam Keeper: Return from the Shadows

2019 • 208 pages

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Average rating4

15

Reread the first two and then this one.
I'm going to say 3.75 rounded up. Really like the art and the themes: environmentalism, chosen family, quest for a good cause, and ‘they're not actually crazy'.

Didn't love the cliche of the protagonist and supporting character having an obligatory fight/poor communication and in the entire series it doesn't really pass the Bechdel test. I guess Fox and Frida kind of talk, but Frida is mostly talking about the Molegod and Pig and not really speaking to Fox. There's also the scene wherein Fox and Hippo are introduced to Margot and she introduces the family, but Fox only says one thing, and it's more like she's echoing something Margot said for/to the reader or to herself.

I'm curious about the animated feature of the same name, bet it has some great music to add to it's lovely visuals.

February 18, 2023