--Sammy Harkham, author of Blood of the Virgin

"Reading Tsunami is deliciously unsettling. Ned Wenlock's irresistible characters slip deeper into trouble, the tension grows, emotions build, until... well, you'll have to read it to find out. Tsunami is smart, funny, honest, merciless, and real."

--Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville

"Wenlock gets it. There is a very particular feeling in this book that displays the heart of a person having to grow up and involve themselves in situations of the people around them. It's a feeling that most of us have experienced but it fades and gets forgotten. Get that feeling back, even for a brief moment."

--Charles Forsman, author of TEOTFW

"Wenlock's edgy debut captures adolescence's melancholy and rage... Wenlock renders his characters in a minimalist, cartoony black-and-white, which belies the complex storytelling. Bullies become more sympathetic characters, families fall apart, no one learns their lessons, and the guy doesn't get the girl... Fans of Charles Forsman's The End of the Fucking World will want to pick up this coming-of-age tale filtered through the lens of a Robert Bresson film."

--Publishers Weekly

"Tsunami is a stirring debut, a disarming feat of cartooning that taps into the highs and lows of growing up and the quiet internal battles that can sweep away the vulnerable."

--Tim Rooney, The Comics Beat

"Melancholic nostalgia battles for tonal prominence with an undertow of something much more unsettling. At the centre of it all is a protagonist destined for the alienated adolescent hall of fame... Tsunami is a book whose modest fame deserves to spread far beyond New Zealand."

--Ian McGillis, Montreal Review of Books

"Throughout the book, glimpses of hope battle with foreboding, forming a compelling mystery as to how it all will end. Tsunami is a thoughtful, affecting graphic novel about a teenager in crisis."

--Peter Dabbene, Foreword Reviews (Book of the Day)

"I might be forever changed by this one... Genuinely and sincerely, keep this one on your radar. I thought it was wonderful."

--No Flying No Tights

"The adolescent world is presented as a brutal place where nuanced threats, unable or unwilling to be perceived by the adults, take on a life-or-death magnitude to the intended targets."

--Ant Sang, Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books

"A powerfully human coming-of-age story... Highly recommended."

--Eddie Monotome, The Sapling

"Tsunami hits like a gut punch..."

--Victoria Irwin, Fangirl Nation

"An important book. It is both brutal and beautiful."

--Simon Sweetman, Sounds Good!