We certainly like to kill our teenagers, don't we? Between The Woods, Morning Glories, Hunger Games, and this, killing off teenagers is a favorite tendency, and this book follows the formula; introduce a number of teens, kill off a percentage of them in an opening sequence, then focus on the rest as they struggle to survive. This is a more real-world instance of it, as a bevy of pre-Frosh Princeton students in Mataguey go off a cliff 20 miles from the nearest town. They're ill prepared for the s...

As the title suggests, this book can be brutal. It starts off innocuously with a group of teens going on a volunteer trip to Latin America. The early portion of the book plays up the fact that these kids are preparing to move onto college and might just be going on this trip to make themselves look good. Their guide once they arrive is a nun, but even with her help they end up stranded.The creators do a nice job easing into the crux of  the story. I think it would have felt like a very different...

Kinda didnt care about any of the college kids

I like No Mercy because it is a solid drama. Part of me wants to call it The Walking Dead if the zombie apocalypse was a bus crash in a Central American country. The plot threads are woven with care and highly dramatic. What really draws me to this book is the art by Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee. The structure of each panel adds gravitas to the script. The angles and focal points are the kind of storytelling that makes any amateur filmmakers jealous. The coloring is some of the best th...

This is a review for the first 3 volumes. Spoilers, probably.Seems like a common enough premise--bunch of teens on a humanitarian trip in the jungle who get in an accident and struggle to survive. What made it unique was when the story split the group up and followed the characters through some very different sets of circumstances, getting rescued at different times, responding differently to what had happened to them, etc. It's pretty ambitious, trying to effectively characterize all those indi...

The clue is in the title: this is a compellingly cruel disaster/survival horror comic, clearly built for a limited run and determined to have as much sadistic fun as possible on the way. A busload of teenagers meets catastrophe in the Mexican desert, and the calamities keep piling up. Alex De Campi starts the kids off relatively unsympathetic and clueless - the first issue is a garish blob of late-millennial markers - then gradually humanise them (well, some of them) as the pressure starts to bu...

Wasn't too into it at first but i enjoyed it the more i read it ans HOLY FUCK THAT CLIFFHANGER

Not bad but not great. None of the kids are all that likable so I don't really care if they get killed off.

Well-done commentary on pop culture, what Americans look like to others, and what Americans look like to each other. Very clever. It's entrenched in today's time period, complete with emojis. While this reads well today, the story faces losing timelessness as this falls out of fashion. It makes for a solid snapshot into today's young population.

Very well done, and I couldn't put it down -- I ended up reading it standing in my kitchen when I was supposed to be cooking dinner. But it was a bit unrelentingly depressing for my tastes, and I'm not sure that I'll read the rest of the series.

I made a mistake initially and started to read the third volume of this series, and then, what the heck, I just finished it,not liking it that much. But then I read the first volume and though it was good:It's a nasty, darkly funny little survivor comic with a not very original premise: A group of students planning to attend Princeton in the fall go to Mataguey in Central America to build houses. Rich, pampered kids doing a service project, right? Clueless kids with no practical skills lost in t...

Some people call Alex de Campi the new Alan Moore, some people are wrong.Most strikingly she lacks the full, lavish, magnificent beard and almost just as evident, this story is written in a completely different style. But both remarks are in no way demeaning: so Alex isn't a bearded lady (can live with it) and she spins an unique type of yarns (can certainly live with this!).No Mercy! is a bit deceiving, it's not what you expect it to be. I read the first few pages and somehow I thought I got th...

Re-reading this fucking masterpiece because I want to read the next volumes too now that I purchased everything! Highly recommended drama! #teenagers #survival #mystery #drugs #horror #facebook #instagram #coyotes #fire #bus #sadness #hashtags #more #hashtagsOld Review:Rated 4 stars because, the story kept me wanting to read more and more. It's not like it's something WOAH, but damn, it keeps you on your toes.Really like what Alex de Campi is doing here, very NOW-times setting, teenagers being s...

Yeah, it is really quite good, nice and deranged but life like.

I read the first two issues of this FOREVER ago and was really curious to see where it would go. It's not supernatural, by any means - the story follows a group of teenagers who survive a bus crash in Mexico, several of them badly injured, while they wait for one of their chaperones to return with help. Things go terribly wrong and are in the midst of going even wrong-er when this volume ends - so I am excited to see that volume two is out and I can continue the story without having to wait arou...

Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. *** 3.5 stars ***While No Mercy by far does not possess the best or most original story out there, it's  interesting and once I started, without meaning to, I kept flipping the pages until there were no more left. Therefore, I can definitely say that it was a pleasurable read.No Mercy basically represents every survivor story ever written: a group of people, in this case student volunteers, go on a trip, they have an accident and are left to fend for

The book started off pretty great, but around page 60/part 3, it just went downhill. Instead of sympathizing with the characters I was just shaking my head at their stupidity. I also felt like the plot was a bit confusing. [spoiler]Not only do we have the survivor theme, but we also have some drugs which will cause trouble. It didn't really fit, and I was actually not looking forward to that. I came for the survivor stuff, not for the OMG drugs + mexico stuff. [/spoiler]The first half of the boo...

No Mercy Series Ratings:No Mercy Vol 1: ★No Mercy Vol 2: Lost Interest in Series—This just didn't do anything for me. — I read this book as part of my 2018 Library Love binge, where I read as many library books as possible to take advantage of my great local library network before I move interstate!___│Blog│Instagram│Twitter│Tumblr│

I won a free copy of this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up liking this. In the beginning I was afraid it read a little too young for me, but the story was good and I got over it. I liked the characters and the pop culture references, and there was a sense of foreboding established early on. I am a big fan of foreboding. It was obvious that some horrific shit was going to go down, but there was also clever dialogue and humor. And I liked t...

This shouldn't be so fun but it is. The title really says it all. When a group of privileged students are involved in a bus crash in a fictional Latin country the characters face unsympathetic odds and no one is safe from the writer's hand. The story hooked me right away and I couldn't stop reading until I was finished.