bullintheheather's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
hypops's review
5.0
They Live in Me is a beautiful twist on the suburban haunted house genre. And like others in the genre, They Live in Me expresses the anxieties that go along with settling down, buying a house, starting a family, etc. But Jesse Jacobs’ book takes those all-too-familiar worries about aging and mortality to new, fabulous, more cosmic heights.
Also, after reading They Live in Me, I think I can finally see Jacobs’ thematic through-line across all of his books: they are all about biological entropy. Over the course of each of his books, the natural world rises up with a vengeance, progressively taking over any feeble sense of “order.” Nature and its fantastical creatures grow increasingly sinister until, finally, some sort of inexplicably calm equilibrium is reached between the (often human) protagonists and their (often more nature-like) antagonists. Put that way, it sounds like Jacobs has found in his comics the perfect way to express life at its most cosmic and at its most mundane.
They Live in Me is another fantastic work by Jesse Jacobs.
Also, after reading They Live in Me, I think I can finally see Jacobs’ thematic through-line across all of his books: they are all about biological entropy. Over the course of each of his books, the natural world rises up with a vengeance, progressively taking over any feeble sense of “order.” Nature and its fantastical creatures grow increasingly sinister until, finally, some sort of inexplicably calm equilibrium is reached between the (often human) protagonists and their (often more nature-like) antagonists. Put that way, it sounds like Jacobs has found in his comics the perfect way to express life at its most cosmic and at its most mundane.
They Live in Me is another fantastic work by Jesse Jacobs.
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