📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: You Are Obsolete
AUTHOR: Mathew Klickstein
Stars: ⭐⭐
Published: September 18, 2019
@AftershockComics @evgeny_bornyakov
Lyla Wilton is a disgraced journalist. Once the talk of the newspapers for her acumen, a single quote misconstrued sent her tumbling. That’s when she gets called out to a tiny, remote island in Estonia. By the children. They have taken over everything. All of the adults in the town wear nightmarish, fake smiles and praise the children without reason or end. No, it’s not brainwashing. It’s straight fear. The children created a smartphone app that can kill anyone over the age of 40. They want Layla to write an expose on all the terrible things she has done and use it to spread their app. Oh, and it apparently can control minds, too.
And that’s the plot. It’s all laid out in the first issue, pretty plain as day. Nothing really left as twists. You know from the first few pages she is never getting off this island alive, and everything is doomed. What I really want to point out, though, is the artist. Evegny Bornyakov did all the lineart for this comic, and it’s brilliant. Grotesque and distorted in moments of emotional tension, cold and detached at others. He’s got a great visual language that makes this comic a pleasure, and a horror, to look at. I want to see more of his work on other titles.
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Small Summary:
A disgraced journalist is called to cover a mysterious story on an isolated European island. As she investigates, she discovers the children have taken control and are somehow killing off all adults by their 40th birthdays. Now, she must discover the truth behind the killings while staying on the good side of the children’s harsh leader…or she’s next.
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.