Review: Heavy Vol. 1 by Max Bemis, Eryk Donovan, & Adrian F. Wassel

Do you have a gory and hilarious comic book shaped hole in your life? What about one that’s full of alternate dimensions, purgatory, and a ton of nudity and blood? Than this might be something that you want to check out in the future.

4/5 Stars 160 pages
Published 2021 by Vault Comics

Bill is a man who’s been forced into the role of an assassin, across too many dimensions to count. All because of his diseased wife’s ex, who’s psycho brain decided to murder them one night. He doesn’t want to hurt people, especially kill them, but he does what he does because he has to. They say he’ll eventually be able to make his way up to heaven to see his wife. That is, until everything changes, and he gets a new partner. The man that killed him.

This book is a wild ride from start to finish. Filled with murder, blood, gore, nudity, and lots of funny jokes just tossed in there, the bright colours that the art brings really livens up the story and makes it a joy to read. I think it fits perfectly. I couldn’t ask for more. The story itself was engaging, exciting, and just something I didn’t want to put down. I couldn’t get enough, and I can’t wait for the next volume, that’s for sure. At only 111 pages, it was a breeze to read through. I definitely recommend checking it out if you like any of those things.

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Max Bemis

Eryk Donovan

Adrian F. Wassel

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Review: Creatures Vol. 1 The City That Never Sleeps by Stephan Betbeder & Djief

Before I say anything, I just need to talk about the art for this book, because it’s just so adorable and somehow fits so well with the dark story that the plot holds, I wish I had it on my walls. It’s unlike anything I’ve read lately, and I really just can’t get enough about it. Following a group of young people in a zombie apocalypse, this one’s a little different, seeing as the zombies are attracted to sugar and food instead of human flesh. That’s not going to stop the last living people though, some have turned to cannibalism. This was a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

5/5 Stars 80 pages
Published January 20th 2021 by Europe Comics

A family, and a group of kids with their back up against the wall, fighting for every day. That’s what this book is about. Just trying to survive. And that’s what makes a great zombie book. It’s also about a boy with powers, and a girl who’s trying to keep her family together. The worst part is yet to come though, because when an eerie green storm takes over their city, that’s when the creatures come out. Trapped out in the storm surrounded by monsters, the small group of children are forced to fight their way back to their base, and make it to safety.

This book was everything I wanted it to be and more! With the art and the unique story, I was sucked in from the very beginning, and I loved how detailed everything was. I didn’t feel like I was missing anything at all, and I would love to have a copy for my bookshelf and comic collection. I really liked that all the characters were so different and had their own struggles and still their stories tied together really nicely. I can’t wait to check out the next volume!

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Review: Levius/est Vol. 1 by Haruhisa Nakata

Honestly what really drew me into this book was the description. It depicted an epic arena battle between mechanically enhanced humans, and so that’s what I thought I was getting. What this book really was, however, was a kind of prequel to that, which don’t get me wrong was interesting, but I found it really hard to follow. You ever feel overstimulated? Because that’s how this book made me feel. It just had so much going on all at the same time that I couldn’t really follow any of it.

2/5 Stars 212 pages
Published November 19th 2019 by VIZ Media LLC

That being said, I loved the art. Not so cartoony like a lot of the others I’ve read, it was more realistic and I really enjoyed that about it. I think it perfectly captured the robotic parts of the people and had a kind of style that really stood out to me, and matched the story. If only I could have followed the story more closely. From what I got, there’s a boy named Levius who lost his mother really young. Then he flashes forward into some kind of scientific hospital and he’s being held unconscious to heal. There’s another man there Zack who knows him but who knows this other girl more, who’s being held in an artificial environment filled with robotic creatures and landmines so that she can’t escape and kill everyone in there. And then there’s another girl, Natalia, who also knows Levius, but wants to be with him. And they’re all crazy good at fighting. See what I mean? I’m not really one hundred percent sure on anything because I just had such a hard time following it.

I might just be completely lost because it’s the very beginning volume and not everything has been explained, but if the other volumes are like this one, I feel like it might just not be for me. If I get the chance to check out the next one, I might give it a chance just to be sure, but I’m not going to hunt it down. I think if you’re able to get into it more than me you should definitely give it a chance, because it totally could just be me not getting it at all, and I think that the art is worth checking out over anything else.

If you’re interested in checking it out, you can here.

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Review: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1 by Gege Akutami

4/5 Stars 192 pages
Published December 3rd 2019 by VIZ Media LLC

Not something I usually read, this book really caught my eye not only because of the cover, but because of the really impactful description. I mean, how could you say no to a book about a boy turning into a demon curse while also fighting them along the way? I had to check it out! It’s like I didn’t even have a choice. What I didn’t know however, was just how gory a black and white book could be, and really just how strange something like this could be for me to read. That being said, I really did enjoy reading it.

Following a junior high aged boy named Yuji Itadori, it closely depicts his life as he not only joins a new kind of club at his school, but also as he loses his grandfather and basically those two things turn his life upside down. After rescuing his new friends from a curse they accidentally unleashed due to their own lax nature surrounding a demonic object, he learns that the demon is basically hunting them down for said object to eat it and become stronger, so he decides to eat it himself. What he doesn’t know, is that it’s really a one in a million chance that he’ll live through it. But guess what? He does. And now he lives with a demon inside his body, that can take over when he gives it the chance and change his physical appearance and give him crazy powers.

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This book was really strange for me, and now even in a bad way. It had be laughing at just how absurd it was and I think that’s really funny. How often does that happen to you? It makes me want to read more books like this, because usually I’m not too keen to jump at things like this. I’m more of a superhero comic kind of girl. But I’ll definitely give more chances out when I see them. If you’re looking for something gory and kind of funny and interesting to read, I definitely recommend checking this out. The art is very simple but impactful, especially for the demonic parts, and like I said at the beginning, it’s really gory at times. I can’t wait to see what happens in the next volume.

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20XX Volume 1 by Jonathan Luna & Lauren Keely Review

4/5 Stars 160 pages
Published November 24th 2020 by Image Comics

You know how I feel about books about people with powers, and if you don’t here’s a reminder. I love them most of the time! Especially when there’s something relatable to our own world it. And that’s why I loved this book. Super relatable even now in the midst of a lockdown, the future world that Mer lives in is not only filled with some really interesting tech, but one with a virus that kills most of the people that catch it. If you can live through it, however, you’re really a changed person, quite literally. You have powers, but you’re also completely segregated from the people without. But you’re immune from catching it again.

We see some familiar things, gang violence, daily mask wearing, a girl who just lives with her cat, and it changes to something crazy and really interesting. After learning she has the virus, to almost dying in the hospital, Mer has some big changes coming to her life, and that’s not just losing her job due to her sudden illness. She’s now faced with a choice to join a gang, or just be completely isolated from everyone else. She just wants advice from her cousin, but even that’s not so simple.

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This was a really good book, and I can’t wait to see what happens next. It has some action in it, including a lot of really detailed blood and gore at times, but entwined into that is a story of a woman just wanting to fit in and really find herself again. I didn’t want to put it down once I started it. I think that this was a really nice break from the novels I’ve been reading lately, or more like haven’t been reading. It was a breath of fresh air, and it gives me new motivation. If you think you’d be into something like that, I definitely recommend checking it out.

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I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1: Madly Ever After (I Hate Fairyland #1) by Skottie Young, Jean-François Beaulieu, & Nate Piekos Review

 

I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1: Madly Ever After (I Hate Fairyland #1) by Skottie Young, Jean-François Beaulieu, & Nate Piekos 5/5 Stars 128 pages
Published April 20th 2016 by Image Comics

“I Hate Fairyland Vol. 1” is a story that starts out seemingly normal. The insides, however, are filled with bright colours, candy, strange creatures, and of course lots of blood and gore. It begins with an eight year old girl named Gertrude, who has green hair and a perfect pink life, wishing she would be taken away to an amazing world, not thinking her wish would actually come true. She’s then sucked into her carpet and dropped into exactly what she wished for, a place called Fairyland. She immediately regrets her decision, bleeding and bruised with a broken arm, and wants to go back home. They tell her if she can find the key, she can go home. She gets a small guide, and off she goes to find her way back.

I love the art in this book so much, not only is the story itself hilarious but the art is unlike anything I’ve read lately. Gertrude then spends the next twenty seven years looking for the key and her freedom, eating nothing but fairy food and sugar, and killing everything in her path. When another human girl shows up in Fairyland, the story turns into a race against the clock to find the key, before the other girl can trap the loser in the world forever. Gertrude’s body hasn’t changed a bit, but her mind has, and it’s

everything you could hope for it to be.

The characters in this book are not only hilarious but they’re so far from anything you’d know in real life that you can’t help but remember them for maybe longer than you should. I wasn’t expecting to love this book but I definitely did, and I’m glad I got the chance to read it. If you’re looking for an exciting and funny comic book full of murder and candy, this is for you.

The book is available here, and here are links to the creator’s Twitter accounts.

https://twitter.com/skottieyoung

https://twitter.com/blambot

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