I honestly only stuck with this to see how it would end, and the result was underwhelming and confusing despite the series strong start. Honestly not really worth it.

More like a 2.5. Shutter is a messy book plot-wise.

Despite featuring some of my favorite art in contemporary comics (including some wonderful homages to different classic comics), Shutter never quite came together for me. Messy plotting and flat or inconsistent characterization kept me from becoming truly immersed in the story, but the series is worth checking out for the art alone.

I liked it, I feel like the ending was rushed a bit though.

I wish I could like this series more, but unfortunately the ending didn't make sense. I fell like there need to be a family tree or some more background information. The other problem could be the fact this series might read better in one read rather than waiting. By the time I read this volume, I forgot some of the story. However, the art in these books are worth the look.

“A lot of people have spent a lot of time keeping the future restrained so they can hold on to the past. Squeeze a few more years out of what they know because they’re afraid of what might be.”I don’t know to what degree this was always the ending Keatinge and del Duca had planned, but fair to say, it certainly got no less topical while the book was in progress. A privileged elite are determined to hang on to what was, no matter the cost; stopping them, as the reunited Kristopher family have vow...

I devoured all five volumes in this series and loved them. The art is incredible, and the story is like Indiana Jones meets Sandman. This final volume was the best one in a lot of ways, although I didn't like one familiar trope in one of the characters' story arcs.

The overly convoluted plot once again got in the way of all the real charms of Keatinge and Del Duca's highly imaginative mix of out-there fantasy and family drama as this conclusion was ultimately both enormously frustrating and quite moving at the same time. The more it focuses on the increasingly uninteresting main plot, the less it works for me but fortunately, there are enough lovely little character beats and imaginative moments to just about pull me through. Del Duca's art isn't always th...

My rating is for the series as a whole. I liked the characters, I liked the queerness, I liked the fantasy, I liked the art, but as much as I did... I'm not entirely sure I understand what happened in the main plot points.

I really didn't know this would be the final volume of Shutter when I went into it, honestly. There are more great character designs and interesting plot reveals in these issues, and Leila del Luca continues to be the shining star that makes Shutter worthwhile. So many instances of really clunky, cliche, and unprofessional writing still keep it from having been great. Have you ever known a friend whose creative ideas are pretty wonderful, like maybe they're a good song writer, and you're glad th...

So Far Beyond felt like it didn’t know when to end. It blew past the epic finale ending and then the tidy wrap-up ending, for an ending that tried to be both but largely failed to be either. Still, I loved the art and enjoyed the writing, and Shutter as a series was worth reading through to the end.

The missing star is mostly because Alain deserved better.Props for not drawing it out, though, and letting the arc finally end. This was probably as good a knot as could be made from so many threads.

I wish that I could say what this was all about! I enjoyed this final volume but it’s very wordy and complicated and I probably didn’t have enough patience with it. Kate’s journey continues and is brought to an end and we find out what happens to all the main characters. Artwork is interesting and detailed as well as colourful. It’s probably best to read all 5 volumes in one go for the whole thing to make sense as it covers a lot of ground. Worth a look especially if you’re more patient than me!...

And so it comes to an end....After the brutal ending to Volume 4, I was a little let down by this volume. While it did seem to wrap up many of the questions, certain things felt incredibly anticlimactic. With that being said, I did really enjoy this entire series, and certain parts of the end of this volume did leave me with the warm and fuzzies.

This final book goes a little off the rails and a lot weird. We've got the climax, an epilogue that reveals the endings for the major characters (not all of them happy), and then another final climax. The book goes meta on several occasions, and the way things build up, resolve, and then build up again is a very strange plot route. And after the first climax, the story moves from plot to platitudes, as the philosophy that the series espouses is laid out more and more heavily. The art is a highli...

Never have I cried so much over the death of a talking cat alarm clock.

After getting to read the first 4 volumes of Shutter at once, and I finally get to read the final installment of this series, and as a whole I give this 5 stars in terms of enjoyability.But as a whole I can only give a 3.5 or 4 at best. As I said in my initial review of the series I love how the art design is gritty looking yet colorful, the characters are diverse and interesting and the art design really leads to facial expression very well which made it all the more appealing to me. The story

All good things must come to an end. The various Kristophers get together for one last battle against Prospero, but Alarm Cat's got some other ideas. Weird ideas. Joe Keatinge and Leila del Duca's amazing series about the secret battle for the end of the world ends the only way it possibly could. And hey, we even got sneaks into all the main characters' lives after the big battle, which was quite neat!

Well I did it. I finished Shutter and I was really hoping for a succinct ending that would solve all the problems of the previous volumes but that didn't really happen. I'm glad that the ending was Kate finally getting to break away from the control and manipulation of her family. But let's be honest I couldn't keep anyone straight. Who was actually dead? Who was fake dead? How they were all related? This multiverse thing? Space jellyfish thing that Prospero was trying to stop? Who even is Prosp...

I never look at a book's GoodReads rating until after I've read it since my opinion usually aligns well with the rating. BUT NOT IN THIS CASE! I think the "Shutter" series deserves 5 stars for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately I'd guess most readers were unable to understand the very psychedelic-inspired ending. The only thing that could blow my mind harder than toad-venom is if I found out the author had never partaken in the peyote that his main character smoked in Volume 4. Volume 5 gets