Stone

Rating:
Summary: Pretty Silly
Review: The sea once offered up its bounty to man, but that has stopped. Ages ago a creature known as STONe rose up and devoured six continents. Now the world is covered by a sand sea (like quicksand but thinner and more fluid). In this setting we meet the pink-haired witch Zizi.

Zizi has an ability to see through the sea. She also does not know where she came from. She currently lives with a whaling community that inhabits an island (a sunken/mired ship). She meets some pirates and her adventures really begin. She pits herself against the pirates, devourers, leviathans, and anyone who stands in her way. Including a mysterious Empire that shows up near the end of the volume.

Zizi is pre-pubescent and just on the edge of becoming a woman. Her insides feel wrong and she is about to undergo the rite of the Red Tide (menstruation). But it is at this time that she becomes banished from the island due to her actions and takes up with the pirates.

The art in this story is very crude and inconsistent. It could easily have been drawn by more than one artist. Many pages and frames look more like concept sketches than a finished product. At one point Zizi is riding a whale but in the next panel it is a devourer (what gives?). There is no real story, the characters are very non-dimensional, the art is crude. I do not recommend this one, but since it has been collected there must be some readers who enjoy it.