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A review by nerdontheloose
Midnight Vista by Eliot Rahal
5.0
Rating 4.5/5
A kid and his step-father go missing while on their night out to get some ice-cream. The case was reported as ‘missing persons’ but after no progress, they both were declared dead by the police. Years later, the kid, now all grown up, returns, claiming to have been abducted by aliens. Now, it’s up to the detective, fishy FBI agents, his mom who believes in aliens, and a cult leader to find out what really happened.
This is a very cool graphic novel with all the alien abduction tropes you’d expect to find from such Crazy alien experiments, prodding up the nose and opening up of the guts for ‘research’ (this particular panel was especially very gory, but in a good way), then there is telepathy, and mind control. The blurb suggests it is based on a true story but idk about that. The illustrations and especially the placement of the panels was really good, and the attention to details was exceptional. I’d be nit picking here, but the human faces looked a bit like aliens too, but other than that, I really enjoyed it.
The story flows in a real good pace, and you’d keep on suspecting every other character that appears. There was a bit of a fun too on the part of aliens (and humans too), for how stupid they can be for someone claiming to be the intelligent species. The ending is a bit rushed and abrupt but makes for a perfect (and a bit predictable) ending to this story.
Thanks to Netgalley, and the publishers for the review copy.
A kid and his step-father go missing while on their night out to get some ice-cream. The case was reported as ‘missing persons’ but after no progress, they both were declared dead by the police. Years later, the kid, now all grown up, returns, claiming to have been abducted by aliens. Now, it’s up to the detective, fishy FBI agents, his mom who believes in aliens, and a cult leader to find out what really happened.
This is a very cool graphic novel with all the alien abduction tropes you’d expect to find from such Crazy alien experiments, prodding up the nose and opening up of the guts for ‘research’ (this particular panel was especially very gory, but in a good way), then there is telepathy, and mind control. The blurb suggests it is based on a true story but idk about that. The illustrations and especially the placement of the panels was really good, and the attention to details was exceptional. I’d be nit picking here, but the human faces looked a bit like aliens too, but other than that, I really enjoyed it.
The story flows in a real good pace, and you’d keep on suspecting every other character that appears. There was a bit of a fun too on the part of aliens (and humans too), for how stupid they can be for someone claiming to be the intelligent species. The ending is a bit rushed and abrupt but makes for a perfect (and a bit predictable) ending to this story.
Thanks to Netgalley, and the publishers for the review copy.