Euthanauts #1by Sheena McNeilReviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk. Publisher
Credits Grade: 6 Thalia Rosewood has always been obsessed with death. Mercy Wolfe is dying of a brain tumor, which has placed a firm deadline on her research into the afterlife. The two have a fateful meeting in life ... and after.This comic is intriguing; that's what got me to check it out. By the end of the issue I'm definitely curious enough to want to read more, but I'm also not entirely sure what the plot (or point) actually is. It doesn't help that we don't get a good feel for any of the characters introduced. The most intriguing characters are Circe (a wild goth girl) and a nameless black man with quite a vocabulary (and sporting a bowtie and dreads), who are somehow in league with Dr. Wolfe and might be nothing more than research assistants or grunts. I want to know more about them than the main characters, which goes to show how ill-balanced this issue is with how it handles the cast. The dialogue boxes are a little confusing, partially because it switches narrators a couple times. The color of the dialogue box changes with the speaker, and there is an icon representing that speaker in the first dialogue box after a switch, both of which help, but we don't have enough basis yet for us to know who exactly is speaking every time. By the end of the issue, I know who one narrator is for sure, and have a good guess for a second (who is narrating in a different tense, looking back on things, which makes things more than a little weird), but am unsure on a third. That's a lot of narrators, too. There is some really impressive imagery in this issue. If the cover catches your eye, there is more stuff like that on the inside! Of course, some of it is weirdly random, making it so I can't follow what's actually going on. The part where Thalia creates the space helmet like the cover is really cool and makes sense for the scene! And I like how it makes me realize the skeletal imagery is symbolic. Mercy's own outfit during that afterlife scene is creepy, but so is she. So, I'm intrigued enough to give it one more issue to really impress me and capture my interest, but I also feel like I won't be missing anything if I don't pick it up. Written: July 17, 2018
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