A review by arf88
Amazing Forest, by Erick Freitas, Ulises Farinas
3.0
I started out reading the Netgallery IDW trade, but it was a nightmare, so I ended up buying the individual MonkeyBrain issues off Comixology. As far as I can tell there's no difference between the two versions.
This is a hard comic to rate. It's made up of 24 short stories, and considering it's only 6 issues, you can imagine how short those stories are. Some of them had interesting premises, but the all ended abruptly. And they were all weird as fuck. In fact, towards the end they got predictable weird. If the ending is always a "twist", then it's not really a twist any more.
As for the art, it was enjoyable, and will probably be a highlight for a lot of readers. Each story had a different artist, so there was a wide rage of styles, some more to my liking than others. Overall, I would say this is a quality book as far as art goes.
There's actually two issues from the original MonkeyBrain run which weren't collected in this trade. If you like this it might be worth checking them out. I didn't bother to buy them, but who knows, maybe a couple of months from now I'll ready for more weird.
This is a hard comic to rate. It's made up of 24 short stories, and considering it's only 6 issues, you can imagine how short those stories are. Some of them had interesting premises, but the all ended abruptly. And they were all weird as fuck. In fact, towards the end they got predictable weird. If the ending is always a "twist", then it's not really a twist any more.
As for the art, it was enjoyable, and will probably be a highlight for a lot of readers. Each story had a different artist, so there was a wide rage of styles, some more to my liking than others. Overall, I would say this is a quality book as far as art goes.
There's actually two issues from the original MonkeyBrain run which weren't collected in this trade. If you like this it might be worth checking them out. I didn't bother to buy them, but who knows, maybe a couple of months from now I'll ready for more weird.