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Stunningly dated, ideologically incoherent, and frustratingly thin...

This is all the more frustrating because you'll get these wonderful, intricate, candy-floss-esque de Lint moments and then CLUNK a big ol' "us poor brown girls have to fight the Man! Remember: racism is only bad when it happens to US!" passages and you wonder if he didn't have a "sensitivity reader" breathing huskily over his shoulder. Also, remember when roller derby was a thing back in the early 2010s?

Ah, yep, de Lint is trying to do a modern take on Robin Hood. With all the modern misunderstandings one would expect. "Robin stole from the rich to give to the poor!" Kiiiiiiiinda, in that he was stealing from TAX COLLECTORS to give the excessive TAX MONEY back to the people being EXCESSIVELY TAXED by their oppressive illegitimate king. He wasn't just rocking up to a local Baron and robbing him for being a 1%er.