A review by mschlat
Shutter, Vol. 1: Wanderlost by Joe Keatinge

2.0

I found the artwork by del Duca wonderful, but the writing by Keatinge did not compel me. You have a famous child explorer now in her mid-twenties in a world chock full of strangeness (funny animal assassins, clockwork villains, zeppelins, returning titans of myth, etc..). I found that strangeness undercut the explorer aspect of the work: what are you exploring if all the weirdness is omnipresent? And the pacing was both far too fast and far too slow: the first six issues are all setting up the explorer character (slowly), but by setting up event after event after event (fight scene, injury to roommate, sudden mystery about unknown siblings etc...). Not my cup of tea.