The Motherless Oven

The quickest and most understandable way I can describe this book is to imagine what if kurt Vonnegut wrote a catcher in the rye. This book is a fun yet tragic coming of age story set in a bleak and terrifying world full of awesome and well constructed metaphors that mimic and mock modern society if you care to look for them,but if your not and just take it as it is not looking between the lines you will still get one hell of a journey in one of the most well crafted and one of kind world full of kitchen god's,shiny brass dads and knife rain storms.This book tells the story of Scarper Lee a boy with three weeks left to live who is just living life as normal and basically waiting to die. Until one day Vera Pike shows up at his school.Vera a mischievous little she devil full of attitude and rebellion who takes over Scarper's life and takes him along with a new friend castro smith who has medicated inference syndrome(which means he is too smart and can perceive too much so he has an implant to dial him down and dumb him down to every one else's level). Together they runaway from school and home in search of answers and a way to save scarper.This is a Graphic Novel that needs to be read it deserves greatness. I put this on par with the best of the best I have read. It's along side the amazing works of paul pope, enki bilal and brian wood. I hope to see a lot more from it's writer/artist Rob Davis his is a talent brimming with potential and incredible imagination.Please Read this book

This story is equal parts dark, disturbing, whimsical, and weird. It is profoundly unsettling from beginning to end, but is always so uniquely captivating and utterly mysterious that it is hard to put down. The world presented in the Motherless Oven seems to lack rhyme, reason, or even consistency at first, but as you are dragged through this broken and often morbid place you begin to see the patterns and understand the "rules", as extreme and senseless as they may be. There is a strong sense of love, purpose and humanity woven throughout, acting like small bobbing lights of hope in an oppressively dark sea, but it is up to the reader to find them.

While I enjoyed this story I'm not sure how I feel about it. The art, style and setting all pull you in, but the chaos makes following it all a little bit tough.There is moment to moment meaning, which I enjoyed, but at this stage I'm not sure I see the big picture behind the theme and everything. The book ends on a major cliffhanger, so I guess it's on to the sequel for (hopefully) more answers.

Totally new kind of world. New way to tell a story. I believe there is more to tell, and I really want to read it.

lots of stickers and poor lamination mucking up the cover, which was not disclosed under conditions

Smart, sophisticated brooding story. Surreal, but moving. Inspired me to go buy Davis' version of Don Quixote, which is amazing.

The story leads nowhere, many elements don't add up, plenty of things left untied. Overall, a disappointment.

I bought this and read it all in a breathless rush. Utterly bewildered, but completely hooked! I stumbled across it at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival and couldn't resist the vivid art and surreal blurb.After reading this, I immediately ordered the second and third books in the series, which certainly deliver on the promise of this first book. All in all, a vividly realised masterpiece in the finest tradition of speculative fiction: critically examining our world through an alien but disturbingly familiar analogue, while entertaining us with an exciting tale and compelling characters. Superb!

This is deeply weird, full of unforgettable, incredibly original imagery, but also very touching and emotionally truthful. Rob really gets inside the mind of a (depressive?) adolescent.

Amazing book. Second one is always great.

Wonderful alternative view on the meaning of life.The story doesn't imeadiately make sense but go with it and it all slowly falls into place. The end both shocked and saddened me.This is the first graphic novel I've tried on my kindle - no problem with reading or flow

I'm new to graphic novels, and this was in some sense my first. I originally bought it for the unique description, and it didn't let me down. Impeccably inventive.