Goobers
Author: Cody ZiglarArtist: Ryan LeeColorist: Kurt Michael RussellLetterer: Andworld DesignPublication Date: At the moment accessible to pre-order
There are two main issues on the market with Goobers, the brand new tentacle-heavy smalltown horror e-book from author Cody Ziglar, artist Ryan Lee, colorist Kurt Michael Russell, and letterer Andworld Design. And they’re wall-to-wall horror monster motion, and a number of the finest teen banter I’ve learn in a comic book e-book in ages. These issues are layered atop a narrative concerning the awkwardness of going residence once more after you may have began a life someplace else, and that’s the theme that ties the e-book collectively.
That’s a pleasant theme, one which I believe many readers will discover relatable, particularly millennials who grew up in small cities or suburbs earlier than going away to high school and ending up in greater cities. I don’t need to spoil any of the small touches, however there’s a typical phrase repeated by individuals who fall beneath the thrall of the titular Goober monsters that ought to resonate. There’s additionally an fascinating cultural dynamic at work on this comedian, whereby the protagonist and his associates are Black and they’re returning to his rural, largely white-southern smalltown. That’s an fascinating dynamic, and it serves the e-book properly.
The headliner to all of this — as it’s in 99 % of horror comics — is the artwork. For my cash, Ryan Lee attracts some the most effective weirdo monsters in all of comics (do your self a favor and checkout Mountainhead for a style of extra smalltown horror illustrated by Lee), and he’s additionally a talented motion storyteller. What that quantities to on this e-book is so many nice combat and chase sequences, with people swinging makeshift weapons, tentacles flying, and peculiar monster fangs gnashing. Kurt Michael Russell’s colours praise all of it so properly, expertly enhancing every thing from the smalltown setting to the monsters to the blood and gore that inevitably splash round in these panels.
The e-book additionally has a playful sense of supply to a few of its key moments, performed out properly by the lettering. There are splash pages that reveal some more and more giant monsters on this comedian, and the lettering makes clear who and what they’re in playful ways in which make it nearly really feel like a freeze body contained in the speedy tempo of the occasions of the comedian.
In order that’s all nice, nevertheless it won’t land almost as properly if Ziglar didn’t write such wonderful banter between his characters. There’s a familiarity to the pal group on the middle of Goobers that I completely cherished, full with completely different personalities (not all of them good), an evident shared historical past, and issues which have lain dormant coming to the floor now that they’re beneath life-threatening stress. It’s a horror e-book, so you already know your complete forged shouldn’t be popping out of this alive, and whenever you do begin dropping them, it actually hurts. That is such a credit score to the way in which the script endears the characters as a bunch to readers.
Total, I assumed Goobers is an absolute blast of a comic book, a horror-action weirdo monster thriller that packs in some delicate poignancy among the many blood splatters and laughs. At the moment accessible for pre-order wherever comics are bought, be sure that to snag your copy of this one.
Goobers is at the moment accessible for pre-order wherever comics are bought.
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