Made of Library

I’m really enjoying expanding my reading sphere into comics and graphic novels. I still think I don’t have a proper appreciation for the artwork side of it, but I really like how quickly the story moves and different way you become involved with the characters through their dialogue and actions. After I started reading The Strain I realised that I’d seen the first season of TV show adaptation of this story. I enjoyed the show though, so I didn’t mind following along again. This story is another modern take on vampires and it pretty much ticks all the boxes. The end of the world, ancient creatures, rich old dudes trying to take advantage, stubborn authorities who don’t believe what’s really happening. It’s all there and mixed up together in the perfect amounts. I still feel as though I’m not doing justice to the artwork side of things. I really don’t have the knowledge to appreciate it properly. But if it does the job required and I can see what’s happening and I don’t get...

As far as I can find there’s only one issue of this comic, which is disappointing because I would gladly have read more. There is also a short film and it’s been picked up by Netflix to make a TV series. I haven’t watched the short film yet as I wanted to review the comic on its own merits first. My comic reading history is webcomics and The Walking Dead, so I don’t ‘have a very broad basis for comparison, so I’m sure there’s a lot here that people more familiar with the genre could talk about that I’ve missed. The premise for this comic is a single mum and her superpowered kid, Dion. We only get about two pages of mum and kid action before we go to flashback and hear the story of how mum and dad met. It’s a shame because I liked the interaction between the mum and Dion. It was natural and fun and immediately showed us the dynamics of their relationship. The majority of the time is spent in flashback. We meet the dad, who is supposed to be charismatic and charming, but I ju...