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Book of Evil #4
Book of Evil #4
Through trial and tribulation, the kids have finally made it to the refuge promised in the Book of Evil, but will what they find be salvation or something even more terrible than the home they left behind.
Part of the Comixology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on Comixology and Kindle. Read for free as part of your subscription to Comixology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime. Also available for purchase via Comixology, Kindle and in print via Dark Horse Books.
Part of the Comixology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on Comixology and Kindle. Read for free as part of your subscription to Comixology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime. Also available for purchase via Comixology, Kindle and in print via Dark Horse Books.
58 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 29, 2023
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Scott Snyder
1,780 books5,162 followersScott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.
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September 17, 2023
At one point Elliot calls the humans "psychos", and the word catches me. Psychos. I can't think of when we've called humans that, even when it was just us alone. They've always been humans and the other kind were animals and we were embies. But it sounds good to hear. I say it to myself, low under my breath. "Psychos. PSYCHOS..." After a while, though, I stop listening to my friends' actual words and just listen to their voices. I can't get over how weird they sound to me at that moment, these people I consider my family. Their voices are higher and louder than the ones I know. And they weave together in different patterns, bobbing and leaping, like an underground stream that's found its way outside and is rushing downhill in the sun. It's all so damned LOUD, too. There's no whispering, no halts or pauses to look around, no hidden words. And then it occurs to me that maybe THIS is what embies sounded like in the before times? When they weren't embies at all, but CHILDREN?
Once again Comixology have teamed up with Scott Snyder to produce a new original series. I couldn't resist giving it a go having enjoyed Clear (Comixology Originals) #1, Night of the Ghoul (comiXology Originals) #1 and We Have Demons (comiXology Originals) #1.
This series seems to be something a little different. It is more along the lines of a traditional book than a comic with the story being told in the form of a diary, written by Homer, one of five children named after great authors of the past times.
Homer and the other children have escaped the city but they were soon confronted by Poe, who had become 'human'. The first sanctuary they find seems like a perfect place to live until they found out that the children there kill anyone who reaches adulthood, to make sure they cannot change. Deciding that they have to escape they barely get out alive, before stumbling across their ultimate destination and the location of the cure. However, all is not what it seems and certainly not what Homer expected.
This final issue of the first volume nicely rounds off the story whilst leaving a lot of potential for a second volume, or season as they seem to be called on ComiXology. 4 stars!
Once again Comixology have teamed up with Scott Snyder to produce a new original series. I couldn't resist giving it a go having enjoyed Clear (Comixology Originals) #1, Night of the Ghoul (comiXology Originals) #1 and We Have Demons (comiXology Originals) #1.
This series seems to be something a little different. It is more along the lines of a traditional book than a comic with the story being told in the form of a diary, written by Homer, one of five children named after great authors of the past times.
Homer and the other children have escaped the city but they were soon confronted by Poe, who had become 'human'. The first sanctuary they find seems like a perfect place to live until they found out that the children there kill anyone who reaches adulthood, to make sure they cannot change. Deciding that they have to escape they barely get out alive, before stumbling across their ultimate destination and the location of the cure. However, all is not what it seems and certainly not what Homer expected.
This final issue of the first volume nicely rounds off the story whilst leaving a lot of potential for a second volume, or season as they seem to be called on ComiXology. 4 stars!
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October 30, 2023What an exceptional series!
This series is an exceptional work. Whether it is anime, a short story, novel, or a group of art drawings, it is exceptional. When I read a story, no matter the form it is in, and I've read over a thousand, it has to convey the experience of taking you away to where and when the story is taking place. It has to move you and bring out emotions in you for the characters. It conveys a message to you, and provokes your thoughts and insights to the storyline, the characters, and meaning. Basically; if a story moves you to tears, or angers you, it happens to instill righteous indignation in you, or a sense of justice...any emotion at all, then it's an excellent story. With anime, or comics for us old folk like me, the story is the same as a novel, but it takes not just the words, but also the artwork to convey the overall meaning of the story. It needs both for the words to make sense. And that is why a good comic is just as fulfilling as reading a good novel. As for this series, it takes you on an adventure. It makes you feel what the characters are feeling, and the storyline and artwork draws you into the story so it's as if your there with them. So, I give a star for good character development, another for the overall plot, 1 for the artwork and its relationship to the story. One for the suspense and action, and finally, one for the overall meaning of the story. It makes you think, and debate with yourself and others about the meaning of the story. The author and artist created an easy to read graphic novel for all ages that evokes emotions, thoughtfulness, debate, and a sense of justice in the end. I recommend it to any book worm like myself.
This series is an exceptional work. Whether it is anime, a short story, novel, or a group of art drawings, it is exceptional. When I read a story, no matter the form it is in, and I've read over a thousand, it has to convey the experience of taking you away to where and when the story is taking place. It has to move you and bring out emotions in you for the characters. It conveys a message to you, and provokes your thoughts and insights to the storyline, the characters, and meaning. Basically; if a story moves you to tears, or angers you, it happens to instill righteous indignation in you, or a sense of justice...any emotion at all, then it's an excellent story. With anime, or comics for us old folk like me, the story is the same as a novel, but it takes not just the words, but also the artwork to convey the overall meaning of the story. It needs both for the words to make sense. And that is why a good comic is just as fulfilling as reading a good novel. As for this series, it takes you on an adventure. It makes you feel what the characters are feeling, and the storyline and artwork draws you into the story so it's as if your there with them. So, I give a star for good character development, another for the overall plot, 1 for the artwork and its relationship to the story. One for the suspense and action, and finally, one for the overall meaning of the story. It makes you think, and debate with yourself and others about the meaning of the story. The author and artist created an easy to read graphic novel for all ages that evokes emotions, thoughtfulness, debate, and a sense of justice in the end. I recommend it to any book worm like myself.
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October 13, 2023Not sure how I feel
This seems like an ending but I hope we get an epilogue, 20 years in the future maybe and perhaps written by Blake.
It wouldn't have to be a perfect future. In fact, it would make more sense if it wasnt. SPOILERS AHEAD They only had enough for one city, right? So does that city survive? It doesn't REVERSE the condition, is humanity just too far gone - this is a world where animals aka homosapiens are the minority and mostly still children, right? Maybe it WILL reverse some while others die, and the story will pickup with these lost children, guided by Blake to fort Goode, searching for more of the vaccine or instructions to manufacture more. Maybe they setup their own city there and rebuild the fort, or find others built by the military.
As is, it felt incomplete, the story unfinished. It needs an epilogue, proof that no story really ever ends.
That's what this lacked and it would have made all the difference.
This seems like an ending but I hope we get an epilogue, 20 years in the future maybe and perhaps written by Blake.
It wouldn't have to be a perfect future. In fact, it would make more sense if it wasnt. SPOILERS AHEAD They only had enough for one city, right? So does that city survive? It doesn't REVERSE the condition, is humanity just too far gone - this is a world where animals aka homosapiens are the minority and mostly still children, right? Maybe it WILL reverse some while others die, and the story will pickup with these lost children, guided by Blake to fort Goode, searching for more of the vaccine or instructions to manufacture more. Maybe they setup their own city there and rebuild the fort, or find others built by the military.
As is, it felt incomplete, the story unfinished. It needs an epilogue, proof that no story really ever ends.
That's what this lacked and it would have made all the difference.
August 26, 2025
It's different but great
I have been raving about Scott's collaborations with Comixology and the quality of the output is stratospheric. And all of the madness packed tightly into 4-6 short books is sometimes a difficult pill to swallow.
This short series of 4 books is longer because of the style which is more novel rather than a graphic novel, illustrated edition would be more accurate. The format is dark and gloomy to go with the storyline. Reading is a chore with the various coloured backgrounds.
The 5 children, protagonists led by Homer who is the writer of this story, go through different shades of dystopian adventure before finishing of with what was for me an insufficient end.
But overall an experience.
I have been raving about Scott's collaborations with Comixology and the quality of the output is stratospheric. And all of the madness packed tightly into 4-6 short books is sometimes a difficult pill to swallow.
This short series of 4 books is longer because of the style which is more novel rather than a graphic novel, illustrated edition would be more accurate. The format is dark and gloomy to go with the storyline. Reading is a chore with the various coloured backgrounds.
The 5 children, protagonists led by Homer who is the writer of this story, go through different shades of dystopian adventure before finishing of with what was for me an insufficient end.
But overall an experience.
November 4, 2023
Love it
Why do you have to be such an amazing writer Snyder? You got me falling in love with these amazing characters, the story, and the artwork. I can't wait for this to become a movie or tv show.
Why do you have to be such an amazing writer Snyder? You got me falling in love with these amazing characters, the story, and the artwork. I can't wait for this to become a movie or tv show.
January 1, 2024
Collectively this was a masterful series, but this concluding issue didn’t quite work as well as the first three. The conclusion was a bit forced and wasn’t as well executed as I would have hoped. But it was still a solid story addition to what is an exception series.
August 31, 2023
Recommended.
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September 6, 2023Awesome well done
Definitely recommend. Character development is flawless as well as the story line. Ready for the next chapter. Very well done!
Definitely recommend. Character development is flawless as well as the story line. Ready for the next chapter. Very well done!
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