86 Voltz: The Dead Girl

by Michael Avon Oeming, Bryan J.L. Glass

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Michael Avon Oeming is an American comic book creator, both as an artist and writer.

His 1998 comic book Bulletproof Monk was made into a film of the same name.

The previous mentioned collaborations are The Mice Templar from Image Comics, which he draws and co-authors with Bryan J.L. Glass,[1] and Powers from Icon Comics which he draws, and sometimes co-authors, with Brian Bendis. His creator-owned projects include Rapture, on which he collaborated with his wife, Taki Soma,[2] and The Victories, both for Dark Horse Comics.

As of 2010, he is employed as a staff member of Valve Corporation, working on Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2 webcomics.

Reviews

[The Wintermute System · Rating 3 out of 5]

So I got the leading ladies Humble Bundle and this was my first read. I love the visuals but the story doesn’t make much sense to me, although I found the ending clarified things. It did resonate emotionally with me, though, so I liked it even if I found it confusing.

[Nikhil · Rating 2 out of 5]

Contrived, obtuse, and self-serious. Hard to follow what's going on initially, but the mystery is easy enough to figure out.

[Ren · Rating 2 out of 5]

This didn't click for me, honestly. There wasn't... Enough here, the art was kind of difficult to follow, and if it was trying to hit horror I couldn't really tell what was going on enough to be scared by it. The concept is solid enough, which is why it gets a star, but the execution wasn't all there.

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this bizarre, folk-horror meets German Expressionist comic one-shot, and I tried, but it just felt a little undercooked. There are great ideas here and a few great visuals, but it doesn't really add up to anything, and the tacked-on twist ending doesn't help either.

[wbforeman · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think visually this book is very striking/ art is excellent but I couldn’t connect with the story it’s written like a poem or something out of Shakespeare it was confusing and a little pretentious in my opinion

[Johan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this via the Leading Ladies Humble Bundle. I can’t say that I liked the artwork, but it does have something. As for the story, I found it confusing.

[Van Nyx · Rating 2 out of 5]

No idea what this was about, but the black and white art is nice, so it gets two stars.

[Edd Sanders · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Strong 2/5 Graphic Short Story

[Albert Yates · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad story.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the visuals flowed well enough even if the text didn't as much.