Quick review
I mean, what can you say about the perfect graphic novel? Yes, the perfect graphic novel. The Golden Vine works as historical fiction, speculative fiction, a story of friendship, a story of deep love, an epic of David Lean proportions, an adventure that gives The Man who Would Be King a run for its money, an allegory, a utopian vision of peace and tolerance, and as a book of literature ala the works of Robert Graves and Robertson Davies.