Alright. Well, this was just a giant chunk of awesome. Truthfully, I'm not 100% sure what the hell is happening in this thing, but that's ok. There's enough real-life drama happening in the background of all the paranormal/sci-fi stuff that I'm sold on this as a solid title. I mean, isn't the benchmark for any great story incorporating the fantastic into it, is that it still reaches out and grabs you in the nads because it reminds you of the mundane? Even if it's set on Mars or populated by fair...

I'm still loving this graphic novel series even though I'm only on Volume 2. I think they are bizarre and different. I don't understand them sometimes the way they go back and forth, but they are just awesome. I love the art and I think it really reels me in because it's a horror novel that takes place while it's snowing. Lol! I love the Winter. Hopefully if these continue on beyond the Winter I will still love them! Dana, who is a cop is still trying to find out who killed her sister Martha. Ma...

okay, on the one hand, seven months is not a really long time to wait between volumes, and if i were more disciplined, i could have kept up with the comic books that were published individually in between the collected graphic novel editions of these books and could have lessened my waiting time and had short bursts of gratification, but on the other hand, seven months feels like a REALLY LONG TIME when you WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN FOR THE LOVE!!zombies and "rural noir." two of my fa...

Even better the second time around. Seeley answers the mystery of who killed the messed up stepbrother of the reporter. Then introduces us to some more fucked up people of this town. Enter one old, redneck, racist, gun nut and three brothers up to some messed up shit. Plus these are more ghosts in the woods and Revivers off doing crazy shit. This book really is Fargo with people returned from the dead and it's addictive as hell. I'm not really sure why Netflix or HBO hasn't snapped this up as a

The more I read of this series, the more I struggle to keep the intrigues and characters' relationships (hell, even just the characters) straight. It doesn't get easier - it's just more disconnected vague allusions to a bunch of small-town politics and melodramas, and I'm realizing that the base premise of this series is just a false promise.I don't think Seeley and Norton are doing a horror book or a supernatural thing - I think they're just stringing up a set of zombie lights to illuminate the...

Book two in the Revival series kicks off…wait, wait. Hold up a minute. Just look at that cover over there. *whistles* What a beauty! The simple, up close image pushed all my cover love buttons–grabbed my attention, set my evil horror imagination wheels a ‘turning, and made me smile, smile, SMILE! So gorgeous! Sorry for the drool. :) Back on track… Live Like You Mean It brings us back to Wausau, Wisconsin where for one day the recently deceased came back to life. Reporters, religious zealots, an...

I only picked up the second volume because I have been reading the indie sci fi comics of Judson Madson (Carbon, Breathers) and like Revival, they are dark stories about central Wisconsin. This one takes place in Wausau and is about Zombies. I couldn't really get into the first volume, but thousands of people have been into it and reading it, so I came back to this for one last look. This volume includes issues 6 to 11 of the series, with religious fanatics and black market dealings part of it.

Updated Review: So I still agree with a lot of what I thought before. It's a interesting enough idea but just not fully realized. I think my major issue is not getting connected to any of the main characters and so it's hard to hear. This volume still good, it's moving at a decent pace, but nothing is really grabbing me and making me go "MUST BUY". So My 3 out of 5 remains. Old Review: There's parts of this volume that are exciting (Especially final issue) but the rest is just eh, not all that e...

2022 buddy (re)read with Nataliya:Something has changed. With me as a person obviously, because I'm pretty sure the book is the same it was 4 years ago when I thought this were terrific. It isn't. It's a decent comic but nothing extraordinary and I basically don't care at this point. I'm a little sad, though. Not only because I apparently can't be trusted as a reviewer but also because I already bought the next couple of volumes. Anyone want some e-copies of this - in pristine condition? Heh! Ti...

This book is quite good, but it would benefit from a few less storylines. And Seeley just keeps adding more! I'm still on the hook, for now, but this is starting to edge towards subplot overload.

I still don't know what's going on with those white ghost-y guys in the woods. I'm a big fan of Em, especially, "It's more fun when you run," but rather than sew up any older plot points or give more info on stuff that's already happened, too much new stuff is introduced - black market Reviver body parts & the gruesomeness that implies, whatever is going on at Ken Dillisch's house, "true white partiot" (ugh) Edmund Holt, Em's teeth falling out? I guess, the Gift of Life group. I like reading the...

The plot thickens and more is revealed in vlo.2 about the revivals and the characters’ past.A lot more characters are introduced and you have to try to keep up with them. It is worth pointing out though that the author has made effort to include characters from different cultures, religions, age groups and there is an equal representation of make and female characters. I also like the fact that the characters are smart and proactiveMy favorite is Martha Cypress, there is something so raw and hon...

This one left me with tons of regret. And, that's not a good thing. There were way too many pages that had context I could have really done without. It's very hard to skip through any areas in graphic novels, so it says a lot when I tell you I skimmed through most of this volume. I didn't find much of what I enjoyed in the first volume anywhere here. There were way too many characters added that i felt weren't needed at the moment, paragraphs upon paragraphs of unwanted dialogue, confusing parts...

Heck yeah!You know how comic sequels tend to emphasize on flashbacks and getting to understand where our characters are coming from? This one just puts us right in the action. Although the information provided to our cop and journalist weren't much (no actual leads) the authors provided us with graphic terror and tender Coop scenes to keep the pace going. I know they'll have to find the balance between characterization and plot soon, but for now, this was a fun ride.

★ ||Actual Rating: 4.5 stars|| ★This was so much better than volume 1. I loved it!Review to come soon.

Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. Although this series might seem as one focused on the death, revival and the meaning of all of that, I would say that, much like the tv show The Leftovers, it's not about death at all. Rather, it's about life, and especially the lives of the people in small towns in America, trapped in their life choices.Sure, Revival offers a lot of gore, blood and guts, but more than that, it opens the topic of how people cope in certain situations and what their ch

Perhaps I’m just better at telling the character apart now or perhaps the storyline tightened up a bit in the second volume, but I definitely felt like I was following along better this time. Not a lot happened, but there were a few new things set up and furthering the plot a bit. I’m curious to see what comes next. Apparently this is rural Noir. New genre for me.

Enjoying the rural town backdrop and small town mechanisms in this series. The revivers dealing with their come backs in different ways, the weirdness in the background going unnoticed by most of the town, the family relationships developing and evolving.

This book pretty much picks up right where the first volume finishes off - with the town now becoming more and more like a pressure cooker - with pressure building from both sides - you know that it will not end well and all the while the reason for this one place this small town to be the focus of such events is all part of the appeal. My only worry is that if there is an explanation it will just not be grand enough or satisfying enough to feel that all this grief and anguish was justified - bu...

I wasn’t a huge fan of Revival Vol. 1 — I thought it was a bit too unfocused — but I was intrigued enough to want to see what happens next. And so I did, and it just failed to make me want to go on with the series. It was reasonably entertaining, but by the last page of the volume I really did not care neither about what’s next in the plot nor about the fates of any of the pretty long set of characters.One of my gripes with the first volume was the lack of focus leading to a somewhat scattered i...