A rich young oil-heir, a mutant octopus and a new country founded on a man-made floating garbage heap are all featured in Great Pacific Volume 1: Trashed, which collects the first 6 comics in the series.Chas Worthington has it all and is known as a frivolous young man. After his father dies, he is in line to inherit the oil company his family owns, but Chas has other plans. It seems he feels responsible for the mess we've created and decides to found a new country on a floating heap of garbage o...

There's some really cool ideas here, it's just that some of them seem to just be thrown in randomly to see what sticks. A young oil magnate decides to make his own way by claiming the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as a sovereign nation. The problem is we don't ever get a hint of what he's trying to do as besides announcing he's doing that, he's just running all over this garbage patch meeting random entities. Hopefully, the story will gel better in the next volume. Martin Morazzo's art is a mashup...

wooow. ok so i think i put a hold on this at the library based solely on the cover, and that was obviously a mistake because it was terrible. such a classic rich-boy-wants-to-better-dead-father's-company-but the company-won't-let-him story steeped in white privilege. all the poc are servants/subordinates/evil, and man oh man don't get me started on the mystical indigenous peoples. and the entire time, you know, while he's fucking up left and right, poor little rich boy still thinks he'd doing th...

The premise is hard to like - but like the trash pile that the protagonists claim, the forces of Joe Harris and artist Martin Morazzo find a way to turn it into something powerful.Again - the premise is odd - a millionaire kid crashes into the garbage patch floating in the pacific ocean, and claims it as his own.But soon - interesting things happen. The characters aren't likeable - but for some reason you can't turn away. Great tale, and great art from Martin Morazzo.

The premise is certainly interesting. Young millionaire Chas Worthington has set a claim to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, essentially a floating trash heap so tightly packed that a person can walk on it, even set up a small building on it. (The real life version is considerably less exciting.) That was the hook that drew me in. I stayed for the giant octopus. I love a good cephalopod. I would have been happy if Harris had chosen to put a greater focus on the setting. It's what I was really cu...

Solid, thought provoking story told through the eyes of a naive protagonist. If you like Think Tank, you should enjoy Great Pacific.

This was a good read. Not what I expected, I did not expect the story of a spoiled rich kid trying to forge an empire / country out of a giant person supporting garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. I was a little disappointed. Because another spoiled kid story was not what the giant squid on the cover promised. ;-)

The Great Garbage Patch is a sign of the times and should be a signal for immediate global action towards reducing, reusing and actively finding ways to remove the pollution.Chas Worthington the third believe he's figured it out. Of course many corporate elements do not want that, and of course his own oil company doesn't want that. I mean who cares about trash that's killing the planet when you have the money for a comfortable life. It's not like you'll be around when the shit hits the fan. So

Corporate heir decides to take himself out of the system and build a country on the gigantic trash heap in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It definitely has an agenda, but there are only a few pages where things feel overly didactic to the detriment of the story. Most of it is high action adventure, with a touch of corporate espionage to boot. I liked how the different groups and creatures which interact with the island interact with each other. I never got a good sense of the main character(s)...

At first, I thought this was going to be one of those rare five-star comics - fascinating premise, and an unusual story. However, it didn't quite live up to my expectations. It's still intriguing, and I couldn't put it down until I'd finished the whole thing, but it doesn't quite have the deftness of touch that would make it a true classic. There's too much focus on the weird plot, and not enough exploration of the situation or the character. Still, very highly recommended for those who like com...

What's a bigger pile of trash: this book, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Alright, this book isn't quite that bad, but wow I did not enjoy this at all. The art was rudimentary and unengaging, not a likeable character among the bunch, and the tiredest of tropes being dragged out one after another. I was so curious after i heard the premise of this story and was hoping for....pretty much just not this. Definitely will not continue series.

I had access to Great Pacific Volume 1: Trashed through NetGalley. The concept of a guy trying to turn a heap of trash into a nation really raised my expectations ever since I heard of it, probably too much for a beginning that, though far from bad, didn't really make my day.Joe Harris has a lot of ideas for this work and maybe he just tried to use too many right from the start, resulting in a protagonist that is exposed to too many odd situations before I even know who he really is and that see...

The heir of an oil fortune decides to repudiate it all and establish his own micronation on the floating island of trash in the Great Pacific Gyre.We're just going to accept for the moment the completely inaccurate portrayal of the garbage patch, because post-environmentalist micronations are cool (though even if there were a floating island of trash, it would still be portrayed wrong - the artist doesn't seem to understand how floating is different from being piled on land.) But we'll ignore th...

The setting on the island of plastic debris in the Pacific is creative, but the rich white boy messiah trope is played out.

In case you haven't heard about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it is the world's biggest landfill, located in the middle of the Pacific. No, I'm not making this up, there is actually a large pile of plastic garbage floating in the middle of that ocean. And that is the main location for this comic, which basically follows the well-known trope of "rich kid inherits father's company, wants to prove himself by doing things better and improving the world".A unique location, some sci-fi elements (li...

As several people have said, there are negatives - the protagonist is a teenager, and the book is something of a coming-of-age story and therefore probably aimed more at YA than at the older audience, and that means that the characters are somewhat simplified. The bad guys always sneer; the aide-de-camp/sidekick always looks bewildered.On the other hand, it certainly has everything, from eco-message to giant octopus, with pirates and mystery rockets in between. Makes for some fun action - and th...

This is a great start on an intriguing story! A young, oil business heir decides to claim the great Pacific garbage patch as his very own country (New Texas, lol), along with some tech that will help transform/terraform it into... well, not a gigantic pile of environmental waste. All manner of wacky problems ensue: boardroom meetings, a gigantic octopus, an indigenous tribe (yes, already inhabiting the garbage patch), SEC investigations, pirates, the U.S. Navy, RUSSIAN NUKES! It could almost be

What a fascinating concept - an unhappy heir to an oil fortune decides to take the pacific garbage patch as a sovereign nation. There's lots of intrigue, mainly bureaucratic and political, but some action as well. There's a MacGuffin, an object that turns petroleum byproducts into water, but in the first collection it doesn't do a whole lot. There's also an octopus that is prevalent. It's a weird collection of ideas, but for the most part it works. It's got a lot of promise.

A millionaire heir to an oil fortune tries to claim the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as his own new nation, but doesn't realize it's already inhabited by natives, pirates, and a giant octopus (who may be in love with him). His storyline is action-filled and surprising, but there is also a storyline that follows the drama inside the boardroom of the corporation he left behind. I could finish this series for the garbage patch story, but the boardroom may keep me away.

Not bad. The idea of creating one's own sovereign nation on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is certainly an intriguing one. So far there's been so much running around and introduction of new characters and concepts that it's hard to tell where this is all going. I like the basic idea, but I think I want to read more of the story before I can tell whether I like it or not.