Animosity: The Rise by Marguerite Bennett, Mike Marts, & Juan Doe Review

5/5 Stars 64 pages
Published November 28th 2017 by Aftershock Comics

Do you like books about animals being able to talk and think like humans do? What about a riot, where they think for themselves and decide that humans just aren’t what’s hot right now? Then this is something you should check out!

 

One day, animals started to think for themselves. Fully conscious of what’s going on around them, they decide that humans are the bad guy, which isn’t completely wrong, and begin to fight back. Not only are they killing everyone, but they’re intent on taking over the world. How could they trust anyone? Human’s have done horrible things them, and they’re not about to forget that. That is, until a vet helps a wounded animal, and one special animal decides to take him under her wing.

 

 

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What it doesn’t know, however, is that there’s a human revolution brewing that could change the state of the world once again. Though this isn’t something I would usually read, because I’m not a huge fan of animals as the main characters, I decided to take a crack at this, because it is a graphic novel, and it’s not like the usual animal novels that I’ve read in the past. Boy am I glad I did.

 

Full of blood and exciting scenes, the art is haunting, and fits the book perfectly. I couldn’t ask for more from this, and I honestly really enjoyed it. I would love if it got more attention, because it just is really unique and interesting, and I’m sure if more people knew about it, they would love it too. It kind of reminds me of Pride of Baghdad! So if you enjoyed that, I think you would enjoy this too.

 

You can grab a copy of the book here.

Here are links to the creator’s Twitter accounts, if you’d like to keep up with them!

https://twitter.com/EvilMarguerite

https://twitter.com/mikemarts

https://twitter.com/juandoe

 

Thanks for reading, have a great day! Lets chat in the comments.

A Walk Through Hell, Volume 1 by Garth Ennis, Goran Sudžuka, Mike Marts & Rob Steen Review

Though I liked the cover for this book and the description sounded right up my alley, this book fell a little flat for me when compared to other horror comics. Though I’ve read a bunch of comics from Aftershock Comics before, I might have had my hopes a little high for the gore in this story. It is interesting, but it just wasn’t my new favourite story, and it was a little confusing with the flashbacks, or whatever they were. That being said, it wasn’t the worst, and I did like reading it.

 

3/5 Stars 120 pages
Published December 11th 2018 by Aftershock Comics

It starts off with a man and a woman going through a mall with a baby. Someone shoots the baby point blank, and the woman holding it dies too. Turns out six people were murdered that day, just two days before Christmas. This is when we’re introduced to Special FBI Agents Shaw and McGregor, who are headed to their job, reading tweets about the murders the whole way.

 

Through their investigation of the murders, they’re lead to a warehouse where people go in, and they don’t come back out. The swat team outside kills themselves out of fear of the place, and before they can stop the special agents, they head on in. This is the beginning of the strangest day of their lives. Sort of a Silent Hill vibe, they are knocked unconscious by an unknown factor. Waking up, they realize that they have no pulse. They start hearing things, and then wonder if they’re both hallucinating when they find a man that just is blowing his head off over and over and over again. Have they been transported to Hell? Judging by the title, I would say yes.

 

With all that out of the way, let me say that what I didn’t like about this, was the kind of disconnected flashbacks that they were having while in this warehouse. I was confused by them, wondering how they got out and went to a diner or back to the station when everyone else couldn’t get out. And then I realized they were memories. I also was hoping for more gore than there was in this book, but that’s my bad. I liked the characters, but I didn’t really get to know them in this volume. The world they live in is like our own, but clearly there’s a hell on earth somehow.

 

Will I be reading the next volume? I’m not sure. I don’t have a favourite character, and I wasn’t super into the story, but I did think it was spooky and intriguing. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but who’s to say it won’t be yours? Check it out if you think you’d like it.

You can grab a copy for yourself here.

Here’s a link to the only one of the creator’s Twitter accounts I could find, if you’d like to keep up with them.

 

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think below, and I hope you have a good day.