Title: Limbo Volume 1
Author: Dan Watters
Artist: Caspar Wijngaard
Genre: Science Fiction / Crime / Mystery / Horror / Alternative Universe
Year Published: 2016
Year Read: 12/16/2016
Series: Limbo #1
Publisher: Image Comics
Source: eARC (NetGalley)
Content Rating: Ages 16+ (Strong Language and Gory Violence)
I would like to thank NetGalley and Image Comics for providing me a copy of
this book in exchange for an honest review.
Introduction:
Since I am on the roll when
it comes to reading books from NetGalley, I have picked up another graphic
novel that sounds pretty interesting called “Limbo Volume One” which is written by Dan Watters along with artwork by Caspar Wijngaard.
What is this story
about?
Welcome to the world of Dedande City, where reality and
technology becomes blended into one universe and mysterious god like beings
called Deities lay dormant in video cassettes. Living in this world is a
detective named Clay who does not have any memories of who he really is and is
often described as being a very rude man.
One night however, he ends up getting a mysterious client named
Bridgette who asks him to take down a powerful crime boss named The Thumb and
once Clay goes on this mission, he soon realizes that The Thumb is involved in
some supernatural shenanigans where reality suddenly begins to unravel. Clay will soon discover that searching for
his true identity in this surreal world would mean that he would have to search
in the darkest corners of the supernatural and technical world to find the
answers he is searching for.
What I loved about
this story:
The premise:
Dan Watters has written an
extremely interesting premise for this series where people can enter other
worlds through television sets and get messages from another universe through
VHS cassettes. I really enjoyed this
aspect of the story since it is extremely unique and it made the story somewhat
interesting to me and I enjoyed exploring this strange new world that our main
character Clay lives in. I also loved
the character of Sandy, the woman who took Clay in and also has the ability to
contact the spirit world through her mix tapes, as she is an extremely unique
and fun character to read about and I enjoyed seeing her try to help out Clay when
he got in trouble with the crime boss and how she used her abilities to learn
more about the situation that Clay got himself into.
Caspar Wijngaard’s artwork: Caspar
Wijngaard’s artwork is highly creative to look at as the characters are
shown in different colors such as Clay having blue skin and is mostly shown in
blue clothing while Sandy has green skin and is constantly wearing green
clothing. These colorings really set the
characters apart from each other and also describe their personalities somewhat
as Clay’s blue coloring depicts his sad past and his determination to find out
who he is while Sandy’s green coloring shows how alien she is in this
world. I also loved the way that Caspar Wijngaard presented the images
of TV static throughout the story as it gives the story an unearthly and unique
feel.
What made me feel
uncomfortable about this story:
For anyone who does not like strong language and violence,
this volume has a bit of strong language such as using the “f” word a few times
and it also has some violence such as some scenes of people being graphically
cut with knives. Also, the reason why I
gave this volume a three star rating was because I felt that the plot was a bit
too confusing as there were many supernatural and technical elements going on at
the same time and it made the story a bit hard to understand. Also, I felt that most of the characters in
this volume were too flat as we do not know much about these characters and I
felt that their personalities were a bit boring also. The only character I felt that was
interesting was Sandy as she does have a bubbly personality and the fact that
she can contact the spirit world through her mix tapes made her the most
interesting character in this volume.
Final Thoughts:
Overall, even though “Limbo
Volume One” had an interesting premise about alternative realities and technology
coming together in one world, the plot was a bit too confusing for me to
understand and I felt that the characters should have been developed a little
better. However, I will pick up the
second volume to see if the story improves.
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