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spooderman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Racial slurs, Self harm, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
zephyr_trashwolf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
readingrainbill's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Without any spoilers there's one scene when two of the characters are working and a third is just hanging out and their supervisor gives them crap about it. True, this supervisor may be far from an ally and maybe even antagonistic towards them, but dude (or the gender free equivalent), you have two friends working at a customer service job and you're just hanging out.
So it's the 70's and this small Christian town is scared because people have been murdered, supposedly by a cult, so they focus on the group of LGBTQ+ punks. On the surface this is a great idea but there's such a big scope to the story that in the 120ish page graphic novel, there wasn't enough to sink my teeth into.
Also there's a trans youth who gets misgendered and deadnamed by his parents and it's never mentioned within their friend group. The friends use he/him, which is great because it's what he wants, but I'd have liked a little more dialogue about his parents and also a better explanation about what caused the event at the very beginning.
There's a great idea here and I get the feeling that I'd really like this once it's complete and I can read it from beginning to end. But as it is, I'd just wait.
Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Hate crime, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Deadnaming
nerdysread's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
So in this graphic novel, we follow a group of young adults who are queer and marginalised during the satanic panic in the USA, and especially in a very religious and conservative little town. So when a murder happened the authorities create a moral panic saying satanic did it. And the group of fitness are the perfect ones to blame.
I really really really like it. I love queer horror stories. Like horror is queer for me, and we need way more queer horror stories. The drawings are great, and the group of friends is superbe. Like we can see how much they care for each others, they always have each others back, and are here for each others. The horror was pretty good too. And I really wanted to know, how they would survive this.
The thing that bothered me was the pacing. It felt weird at some point, but not bad either… I just hope we will have a sequel because this ending????
Rep: Trans guy MC, Trans woman MC, Black MC
TW: Homophobia, Queerphobia, Transphobia, Deadname, Misgendering, Gore, Violence
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Transphobia, Violence, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Lesbophobia