Amazing Forest

author: Erick Freitas
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.89
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2016/11/19
date added: 2016/11/19
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Amazing Forest' by Erick Freitas and Ulises Farinas (with a whole bunch of artists) is a dark collection of 24 short stories. The title doesn't give you any idea of the sort of thing you are about to read.

A group in a tank has to spend every day killing alien visions of the people they love. A space villain tries to find ways to get hired. A trio of con artists travel town to town tying a woman up to the train tracks, then rescuing her for money. A virus that makes people exude cats. A boy that makes a gruesome trade with a wish gnome. These are the sort of stories inside.

The stories all have dark hearts and dark twists of the knife to them. The art is all different in style as well as quality. Some is much better, some is much worse. Each story is around 5 pages long, but they have a sameness in the tone that the book sets. The stories are different and odd. The length works to their benefit. If they were longer, some of them wouldn't work. If you are looking for cheerful stories, you'd be best to look elsewhere.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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