Wasn't a great read but was OK.

2,5/5. At first I was finding this one quite funny. The guy dies in a stupid accident, then find himself in Heaven and didn’t like Heaven because everything is very lame out there, etc. I liked the absurdity of it all and fin did funny. For the first third. After that, well, the humor didn’t works has well, it became repetitive, it try to introduce a real plot into the story which didn’t work well or was interesting that much, etc. A cool concept that works well in the beginning, but that didn’t...

A Spotty Story Arc, With Quite A Few Funny/Edgy BitsWe start with David, a whiny complainer with a side of sour and sadsack. He's in that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" category of love-hate, but mostly hate, characters. Not a promising start. The best description of David comes from his Uncle who meets up with him in Heaven and remembers the ice cream store incident. (In that, young David insisted on getting rum raisin ice cream and then cried when it was as disgusting as he had been warned. As Uncle P...

E se... o céu fosse um local deprimente, tipo bairro social decadente? É o que um azarado personagem descobre, depois de lhe cair um piano em cima. Vê-se chegado ao céu, e para sua grande surpresa abrem-se-lhe as portas celestiais. Que não dão acesso a nenhum paraíso. O céu é um enorme bairro social decante. Ou será mais que isso? Pelas suas desventuras e propensão para irritar toda a gente, acabará por descobrir que há mais do que um céu, um verdadeiro paraíso para onde irá, castigado a passar

Full of great ideas but sadly none are quite fully realised.

David is an overweight, sadsack of a man who dies an untimely, quirky death. Residents of Heaven are tired of his complaining before he even gets through the pearly gates. When he does, Heaven seems to be even more of a mundane existence than his life was. Everyone hates him, his constant complaining draws the ire of the archangels and St. Peter. But his constant dissatisfaction could lead to the dark underbelly of Heaven. A pretty humorous, dark satire from Tom Peyer and Greg Scott.Received a r...

David dies and goes to heaven, which turns out to be a kinda sucky place and everybody there hates him. Not as funny as, for example, "The Good Place" on TV, but still quite a bit of fun. I'm now enjoying exploring other things from quirky new publisher Ahoy Comics.

High Heaven: The Austerity Gospel by Tom Peyer et. al. is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in late May.Hyperspeed, David Copperfield (the novel, not the magician) style biography to bring a reader up to speed on a character who (hmm) is also named David, has died, and on his way to face the judgement of Saint Peter and less than spartan afterliving conditions, which he complains about endlessly and thanklessly. He cannot reunite with his parents, who seem to have been similarly thrown in...

Collects High Heaven issues #1-5As a Christian, I have my own ideas about what Heaven will be like, but I'm fascinated by other viewpoints on the afterlife. Even when it doesn't line up with my personal beliefs, I like reading stories where others try to imagine what the afterlife may be like. I didn't love everything about it, but this satire was worth reading, and I found myself really enjoying a lot of it.

High Heaven: The Austerity Gospel is an entertaining read but also a bit of a disappointment. Not sure how much of that is with the book and how much with my expectations. I am rating slightly higher simply because I like the concept, or what I perceive it to be.The story, such as it is, is mediocre. Two stories really, how David and Ben end up in heaven and then the story of what takes place there. I didn't dislike the narrative, I just didn't really like it either, it simply was.The idea of th...

Regular schlub David Weathers has an extremely bad day, culminating in his death. Luckily for him, he gets to Heaven; unluckily, it turns out to resemble a particularly characterless holiday resort, where everyone hates him for being apparently the only person who complains about this. To make matters worse, there turns out to be a High Heaven which looks like it's genuinely fun (for starters, they still have genitals there); Hell, even Hell looks like it might be fairly entertaining. So what gi...

An enjoyable read, with a really obnoxious asshole of a main character. David, a joe schmo loser kind of guy, has his best friend play a cruel prank on him, the woman he loves turns him down when he confesses his feelings to her, and a piano falls on him, killing him. When he gets to Heaven, he complains so much everyone hates him; even Saint Peter wants to kick his ass. Heaven turns out to be disappointing- the "mansion" David is promised turns out to be a crappy apartment in a slum, the food i...

David Weathers dies in a freak accident and finds himself in heaven but it is not what he thought it would be. Instead of living such a lack lustre afterlife he decides to break out with the help of an angel, but not before getting into fights, meeting relatives who died and were not missed, and realising that there seems to be some kind of class system in heaven and he is at the bottom of the pile. The idea behind the story is certainly original. The artwork wasn't a favourite of mine. It was c...

David is having a bad day. First, he confesses his love to a co-worker. Her response is that she is engaged to the very co-worker that encouraged him to express his love. Second, he is crushed by a falling piano. High Heaven is the story of how even heaven disappoints David on this horrible day.Initially, David is surprised and relieved to be let into heaven by Saint Peter. However, he then sees his “mansion” that looks more like a jail cell and smells strongly of ammonia. The only food on offer...

A jolly romp through the afterlife, when a sad sack tries to hit on the office hottie, only for a piano to fall onto his head. But if he thinks life on Earth is bad enough, check out what happens when St Peter lets him through the pearly gates, because there is heaven, and there is HEAVEN. It tries to say stuff about making your own bed, getting rid of the mundane from your life being one of the best things you can do with it, and so on, but doesn't quite nail its message while it's too busy bei...

'High Heaven: The Austerity Gospel' by Tom Peyer with art by Greg Scott is a graphic novel about a chronic complainer who dies and ends up having even more to complain about.David Weathers is killed by a safe and ends up in heaven. His complaining gets him to the head of the line and he's assigned his dwelling. It turns out, for David Weathers, that heaven is pretty mediocre. He has to share a room and the food is subpar vending machine food. He is helped by some angels, including Michael, in a

Good, not great but it could have been. Interested in reading more by Peyer though.

I feel like this had the bones to be something really entertaining, but there just wasn’t enough follow through. I thoroughly enjoyed the idea of there being a ‘low heaven’ for people that weren’t great but weren’t terrible, and then the high heaven for those that truly deserved to be there. I enjoy the satirical comedy of that. High heaven included all the things you would want; pool parties, food, partying, drinking and sex. Low heaven basically consisted of large, dull, low-income apartment c...