A review by nvhudsmith
Echoes Vol. 1 by Joshua Hale Fialkov, Rahsan Ekedal, Troy Peteri

5.0

Freakin' fantastic horror. I bought this (a full collection) despite my hesitation about a classic mental-illness-a-horror-trope. Without giving out too many spoilers here, I want to note up front that this doesn't play that game to the problematic implication -- there is horror that comes from mental illness symptoms but the reader is not afraid of our mentally ill protagonist but empathetic towards them, and it really heightens the level of fear here. The illustration is eerie and despite the lack of color, uses many different details to bring the idea of living in fear and guilt and uncertainty, plus a little gore, to life.