Null Faeries, Volume 1: Dust Pilot Down

by Chad Cicconi (Story & Art), Eddy Swan (Colors), Adam Wollet (Letters)

This deluxe collection includes the complete first story of the Null Faeries. Featuring a mature, intelligent female protagonist, this story will resonate with fans of high fantasy, sword and sorcery, faerie tales, and action adventure. Our tale begins with Ionantha Hesperis, the greatest of the Faerie Queen’s Harvester Corps, felled by a cursed blade and stripped of her magic powers. Forgotten, no longer immortal, but refusing to die, Ionantha learns to exist relying on cunning rather than magic in a society fueled by a power she can no longer touch. But when the queen’s pixie dust shipment is hijacked by an unknown assailant with knowledge of secret faerie lore, Ionantha is summoned into service once more and tasked by a vengeful Queen with solving the case of the century. Set in both faerie and human worlds and spanning in time from the post-civil war era to the dawn of the Industrial Age, this story touches issues relevant to a modern reader, including tribalism, racial prejudice, sexuality, resource allocation, and the loss of societal status suffered by mature women.

Genres: Fantasy

196 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2019

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was really hard to follow at first. The author throws so many foreign concepts at you it's hard to grasp what's going on. Eventually it settles down 94 years later into basically warring clans of faeries and a murder mystery. The dialogue was really stilted, off-puttingly so. Like a lot of Action Lab books, there's an egregious amount of T&A for no good reason. It's almost like they are trying to be the Playboy of the comics world. The art is solid and there is a decent concept here if it was tweaked.

Received a review copy from Action Lab and NetGalley. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.

[Dev · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received an ARC copy of this book from NetGalley

I probably only read about 20 or 30 pages of this and then just mostly looked at the pictures for the rest of it. I guess I should have expected it from the cover, but I was disappointed by the amount of bikini armor and women drawn into 'sexy' poses for the sole purpose of showing the reader their cleavage or butt. But on the other hand you almost never have an older female protagonist in a story like this so when I saw the other woman on the cover I thought I would give it a try. It could have been worse but some of the art and designs definitely bothered me.

Also the language used was very weird and hard to read for me. Most of the faeries spoke in a very old fashioned way that did not flow naturally and the earth faeries for some reason would throw random German words and phrases into their speech. I think there is the basis for a good story here, which is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1, but it definitely needs some editing in both the writing and art departments.

[Wayne McCoy · Rating 2 out of 5]

'Null Faeries, Volume 1: Dust Pilot Down' with story and art by Chad Cicconi is a graphic novel about faeries and what can happen when they lose their magic.

Ionantha Hesperis is a great soldier of the Faerie Queen until her powers are stripped away and she is almost killed. Now years later, she is still around and trying to solve a mystery. What she finds is an adult who can actually see faerie and may be a threat.

I think this graphic novel exists just to have scantily clad figures because the story was just not very good. At first, it was about faeries taking children's teeth, so I mistook as possibly being for children, but then I found the hinted scenes of faeries sharing magic by basically having sex. The art is not bad, but just not my thing. The story is just not all that interesting and it was easy to figure out some of the twists.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Action Lab Entertainment, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I will say right up front the story line is a 4 star read, the illustrations are a 2 star. Why do men feel the need to draw women, even fantasy women so scantily clad, with extremely large breasts and tiny waists. Do you not realize that for most women this would be a hindrance!! It is for that reason this story rates a 3 star. There are two types of fairies: those in the air and those on the ground. Those on the ground are considered an inferior race, but they blind and null the powers of the queens best inquisitor. But fairies have a long life, even when they have no powers, and the queen will need her inquisitor to figure out who has stolen a fairy dust shipment. A crazy adult has figured out how to spot fairies, and now wants their power, and will do anything to get it. I like that the adult in is story is very loosely modeled after a real person. It gave me something to look further research. And I do want to see how this story will progress. I really want to know where the blade that took the Inquisitors powers came from, and if she will ever get her powers back. There are places that this story can go. No if only it had a better illustrator.
#LitsyAtoZGN
#BBRC #Growup #Ugghh

[Celibel Shadowsong · Rating 3 out of 5]

ARC given by NetGalley in exchange of a honest review.



Our tale begins with Ionantha Hesperis, the greatest of the Faerie Queen's Harvester Corps, felled by a cursed blade and stripped of her magic powers. Forgotten, no longer immortal, but refusing to die, Ionantha learns to exist relying on cunning rather than magic in a society fueled by a power she can no longer touch. But when the queen's pixie dust shipment is hijacked by an unknown assailant with knowledge of secret faerie lore, Ionantha is summoned into service once more and tasked by a vengeful Queen with solving the case of the century.


I love fairies, when I saw this book was for "adults" was about fairy tribes and adventure, I said "Hell yeah!".
I loved the bright colors and the details of the fairies world.
There were times when I was lost, I thought they should have put a little explanation of the fairy world and why is there conflict in the fairy tribes.
But overall, I really enjoyed the book.

P.S- Just a little bit more blood😜

[Hanna Tamara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this from NetGalley for an honest review.
I am finally catching up on my reviews on NetGalley.

The story overall wasn’t bad. I was a little confused at times, because of the time jumps. And the story had some places where it just jumped over a part.
The art itself wasn’t bad in that sense, however, I didn’t like how the woman has portrayed. I feel like we always have these women with big breasts and asses with small waists. And they often got into these weird stands just to show off their cleavage. The one that bothered me the most was the queen, like... what is she wearing?

[Theediscerning · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really not as good as it needs to be – or thinks it is – this fantasy shifts from being impenetrable nonsense about different fairy tribes battling over pixie dust, children's teeth and so much more, to fairy tribes with human enemies in battles for pixie dust,… There's just too much chance to see improvement in this – a simple way in to the story to begin with would have helped greatly. The magic speech is a weird amalgam of Irish Gaelic and German (right down to someone or something being called "very already" – speakers will know what I mean), plus other random words. Literally half the script to two key issues is "I am on my own, so I will interrupt my battle by telling my human audience what I – HUP – think my escape route is", interspersed with "I am the human involved in the story, I am thinking this, just in case you don't know. FYI I wanted to be Artemis Fowl but I'm too much of a c*nt." In fact it's so bad not even the extremely buxom and cute fairy queen can save it. I'd gladly spend more time with her (fnarr fnarr), but not with this tosh. One and a half stars, mostly courtesy the artwork.

[Alan D.D. · Rating 1 out of 5]

The story was good, but I couldn't get why do a comic book with so many suggestive poses and blood if it was drawn as if it was inteded for children. The edition and the art made it difficult to read it, and don't make me start about the watermarks: it was nearly impossible to read the dialogues, which could have been better. The very last pages were doing okay, I guess, until the creator used the Deus ex machina. There was no reason, no hint, no clue, nothing, to suggest that "twist". If redone, rewritten, redrawn and reedited, there could be a good story because there is potential in the idea, but only the idea.

[April Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, not great. The story's decent, warring Fey tribes, a stolen pixie dust shipment, an adult human who can see faeries, but how? It's not a bad story, but it needs to be fleshed out- we don't know why the tribes are fighting, there's not much information on the faerie world and how it works, you just get thrown in. It's a bit disjointed and hard to get into, but gets better at the end, where we get a truly creepy villain based on a real world serial killer (there's a brief bio of him after the story). The artwork's bright and pretty, and it was nice to see an older woman as the heroine!

#NullFaeriesVolume1DustPilotDown #NetGalley

[Nat · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a meh story overall. I am a bi woman and the scantily clad women could not distract me from the so so story

[Lanae · Rating 2 out of 5]

It took me far longer to read this than it should have. I just found myself too bored to continue on and would put it down thinking maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood. But, I mean it’s faeries, I should have loved this. This just failed to draw me in until the last 20 pages or so. While the general concept of Faeries warring as well as humans attacking them could be interesting, instead it was slow and dull. . The art is fine. I really wish I could review this better, but it just didn’t work for me.