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A review by alexauthorshay
Imaginary Fiends by Tim Seeley
3.0
I really liked the idea behind this comic, and how the art brought it to life. It's like if our imaginary friends weren't 100% created by us or controllable by us, and some of them were actually evil. It's creepy but in a really neat sort of way, the kind of gross fascination you don't want to look at but can't help to.
I suppose I was expecting something more like Revival in terms of presentation, because that is also by Seeley. But this comic had a weird habit of narrating everything in third person about where every character was at the beginning of every issue and it really threw me out of the comic. Especially because the way some of those parts were worded, it took a few reads to figure out who was being talked about. In the very first comic I was super confused, because there was a bunch of names being mentioned and you have no idea who anyone is yet, and the language used by the 'narrator' is very dense and convoluted, i.e. not the easiest to understand as your reading it.
I also felt like the story fell apart the longer it went on. It started out with the mention of a fish on a bike or something, and then it side tracked into another plot, but was supposed to connect with the original because of the missing children or something? I couldn't quite follow it. I get the gist of what happened but it feels like there's some holes along the way, and that also tugged my attention from the story several times because I was waiting for more information mentioned in one part of the comic while reading further, and that information never came, and this happened a few times. A few characters involved also don't get developed beyond their names for most of the comic and then suddenly play a prevalent part later in the comic, but by then I had forgotten who they were and how they were related to the characters. Not the kind of comic you can read passively.
I suppose I was expecting something more like Revival in terms of presentation, because that is also by Seeley. But this comic had a weird habit of narrating everything in third person about where every character was at the beginning of every issue and it really threw me out of the comic. Especially because the way some of those parts were worded, it took a few reads to figure out who was being talked about. In the very first comic I was super confused, because there was a bunch of names being mentioned and you have no idea who anyone is yet, and the language used by the 'narrator' is very dense and convoluted, i.e. not the easiest to understand as your reading it.
I also felt like the story fell apart the longer it went on. It started out with the mention of a fish on a bike or something, and then it side tracked into another plot, but was supposed to connect with the original because of the missing children or something? I couldn't quite follow it. I get the gist of what happened but it feels like there's some holes along the way, and that also tugged my attention from the story several times because I was waiting for more information mentioned in one part of the comic while reading further, and that information never came, and this happened a few times. A few characters involved also don't get developed beyond their names for most of the comic and then suddenly play a prevalent part later in the comic, but by then I had forgotten who they were and how they were related to the characters. Not the kind of comic you can read passively.