A review by notwaverly
Wayward, Book 1 by Jim Zub

3.0

Ok, that was really cool! It was a little scattered, at first, and had a lot to set up (though maybe the story would have seemed to be slower-building/not as scattered if I'd read it issue by issue), but it started to pick up a lot by the end, and I really enjoyed it! I have to say, (SLIGHT SPOILER), having the "New Gods of Japan" be super white-looking, and one of them be half-Irish is a little... culturally awkward? But the story itself is really cool, and I was really into how much they actually acted like teenagers. This is similar to Runaways by Brian K Vaughan, with the superpower-teenagers-without-parents thing, but I have to say I liked this a lot more than Runaways. (Despite the surprise spiders, which were just awful. Fuck surprise spiders. Who does that? That's just mean.) I'm 100% going to be reading the next volume, or "deluxe book", and I can't wait.