With Drome, Kindle Ruins the Most Nominated Graphic Novel of the Year

Reading Drome on Kindle is like trying to fit the entire ocean into a water bottle. I didn't know that when I ignorantly mashed the "buy now" button on Amazon after seeing it was only $3.

I'd picked up the print edition, a beautifully bound hardcover from 23rd Street Books, a week earlier, wrongly assuming it would take me a while to work through the 320 pages. I finished within an hour of getting home from the comic shop, then read it a second time with my daughter that night. It sat on my coffee table for about a month before being moved to an easily accessible spot on my bookshelf. It seemed worth grabbing a digital version even at full price, since I'd planned to write about it at some point.

So to say I loved Jesse Lonergan's Drome, one of the most award-nominated graphic novels of 2026, is a vast understatement. But then again, so is saying the tbe experience of reading it on the Kindle reader is awful (comparatively). I keep wondering: how many people snagged that digital lighting deal, not realizing they're missing the full impact of the sequential art? How many will read it for the first time on Hoopla or via a subscription plan?

As such, this article feels more like a public service announcement than a formal critique. Drome is an incredible graphic novel, despite even the worst reading-platform usability choices.