After a war fought by robots on behalf of their human masters, a post-war farmer and tinkerer works on salvaged robot parts to make ends meet. It's an idyllic setting for a sepia story until a rocket boy lands in his field along with a towering war mech and they start fighting each other. Rust Visitor in the Field by Royden Lepp Archaia December 2011 You know something is different about Rust when you start reading and find the title page after 30 pages of prologue about the war and during that prologue only 10 words total are spoken. Rust relies so much on art to tell its story that at times I found myself lost in this beautifully illustrated world. When Rust does use words, it does so in such an unusual but natural way. Most of the narrative early in the book, and peppered throughout, come from the main character's letters that he writes to his unseen "Dad" which brings a nostalgia and immediate sense of personal loss to the story that I could immediately empathize with. A note about the hardcover edition: I've never seen a more attractive binding on a graphic novel. The hardback cover is rust colored with silver imprinted ink for the titles with two full color pictures on the front and back. Each of the 192 pages are in full color and printed on matte (non-glossy) pages. Everything about it emphasizes the "novel" in graphic novel. Very well made and immensely collectible. It's clear that this is only one in a series from Lepp, but what a start! One of the best graphic novels to come out in a long time and highly recommended.