What do you think?
Rate this book
Back to the Future (2015) #2
Amazing Forest
Tales for the bold. Ideas for the strange. Wicked concepts that stir the minds of those with darkness in their hearts. A modern anthology that lends itself to a time when stories were short and ugly. Written by Ulises Farinas & Erick Freitas, each story is drawn by a different, amazingly talented artist, each lending their unique talents to bring horrible happiness to the readers skulls!"
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 12, 2016
24 people are currently reading
255 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 79 reviews
July 31, 2025
(A-) 80% | Very Good
Notes: Chekhov's Gun is always fun, a satisfying mystery, Marty's affliction's adventure addiction, and Bieber's retro history.
*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #6-8 ◦ Issues #9-11
Notes: Chekhov's Gun is always fun, a satisfying mystery, Marty's affliction's adventure addiction, and Bieber's retro history.
*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #6-8 ◦ Issues #9-11
April 7, 2020
A good anthology of weird, strange, SciFi stories with questionable art.
Received an advance copy from IDW and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Received an advance copy from IDW and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
June 19, 2018
Rating:4.5/5, I liked it a lot, Very Good 🤩
Recommended to: Fans of the trilogy.
2018’s Marvel-A-Thon, PHASE II: Guardians of the Galaxy- A book set, written or involving the 80’s.
I just loved this, it’s pure nostalgia for me. This stories tells us what happened after the third movie, how doc Brown managed to build the time travel train.
Highly recommend it to the fans.
Recommended to: Fans of the trilogy.
2018’s Marvel-A-Thon, PHASE II: Guardians of the Galaxy- A book set, written or involving the 80’s.
I just loved this, it’s pure nostalgia for me. This stories tells us what happened after the third movie, how doc Brown managed to build the time travel train.
Highly recommend it to the fans.
April 3, 2020
I love this graphic novel series! It is so much fun! In this one Doc is working on his time train and ends up in Marty's time but has lost his memory.
August 7, 2016
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.
December 10, 2018
Kind of hit or miss. This a collection of a bunch of quite short stories. Too many to rate individually, and some of them only a couple pages long. Some really fantastic art and some that I really didn't care for. Some of the stories were pretty good, some just not. Most had a pretty dark twist ending. Reminded me of old tales from the crypt or twilight zone type twists. Worth a read. And really, some of the art, like the cover, would make a cool poster.
August 7, 2016
Some stories were better than others, but a lot of this I didn't enjoy, story or artwork.
I received an advanced copy of this from NetGalley.com and the publisher.
I received an advanced copy of this from NetGalley.com and the publisher.
November 25, 2017
Some of the stories were great and spooky; some of them were not as great or as spooky. It was a quick, fun read, though.
April 5, 2025
I liked looking at all the different art styles, but most of the stories were kind of ...boring? (I think they all had the same writer/ pair of writers.) It also felt like there wasn't much thought in terms of how the stories are arranged- the tonal/art shifts are breakneck.
April 14, 2018
Even having read the preceding entry it felt like some material had been skipped, but after getting past that and the unrepresentative art the story is serviceable time travel stuff.
July 30, 2018
I love those comics so much! Can't wait to read more in the BTTF Universe. ♥
August 31, 2024
Me caia bien el profesor nuevo y la historia de origen de la maquina del tirmpo y la explicacion del incendio de la mansion brown
June 5, 2024
Literally no clue what happened in this book I just have severe BTTF autism help
April 10, 2024
Potrebbe essere tranquillamente un nuovo film: Ritorno al futuro IV. Piacevole da leggere ma non al livello del primo volume, più “sfizioso”.
November 19, 2016
'Amazing Forest' by Erick Freitas and Ulises Farinas (with a whole bunch of artists) is a dark collection of 24 short stories. The title doesn't give you any idea of the sort of thing you are about to read.
A group in a tank has to spend every day killing alien visions of the people they love. A space villain tries to find ways to get hired. A trio of con artists travel town to town tying a woman up to the train tracks, then rescuing her for money. A virus that makes people exude cats. A boy that makes a gruesome trade with a wish gnome. These are the sort of stories inside.
The stories all have dark hearts and dark twists of the knife to them. The art is all different in style as well as quality. Some is much better, some is much worse. Each story is around 5 pages long, but they have a sameness in the tone that the book sets. The stories are different and odd. The length works to their benefit. If they were longer, some of them wouldn't work. If you are looking for cheerful stories, you'd be best to look elsewhere.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
A group in a tank has to spend every day killing alien visions of the people they love. A space villain tries to find ways to get hired. A trio of con artists travel town to town tying a woman up to the train tracks, then rescuing her for money. A virus that makes people exude cats. A boy that makes a gruesome trade with a wish gnome. These are the sort of stories inside.
The stories all have dark hearts and dark twists of the knife to them. The art is all different in style as well as quality. Some is much better, some is much worse. Each story is around 5 pages long, but they have a sameness in the tone that the book sets. The stories are different and odd. The length works to their benefit. If they were longer, some of them wouldn't work. If you are looking for cheerful stories, you'd be best to look elsewhere.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
October 15, 2016
I found this to be very entertaining. I was so glad to see a long enough story that covered 6 issues because there was so much going on it would not have been fair to tell the story in 4 or even 5 issues like most volumes.
I want to just explain one "spoiler" that I feel should sort of be mentioned in order for some of this to make sense. At the end of the third movie, we see Doc and the family arrive in 1985 with a flying train time machine. So this story actually takes place one year later, in 1986. In a way, this story takes place prior to that event in the third movie because this story, in part, tells how Doc Brown obtains the technology to make the train work. much less fly. when we see it on the screen. I guess it can be somewhat confusing but it does help explain how on earth the train was so futuristic.
I would recommend this story to all fans of the series. I feel it is well written and, I feel, it helps add to the sense of adventure we saw in the films. It has constant skips through various times and the story definitely has a lot of heart. I am hopeful for more quality stories to come soon. I will cross my fingers.
I want to just explain one "spoiler" that I feel should sort of be mentioned in order for some of this to make sense. At the end of the third movie, we see Doc and the family arrive in 1985 with a flying train time machine. So this story actually takes place one year later, in 1986. In a way, this story takes place prior to that event in the third movie because this story, in part, tells how Doc Brown obtains the technology to make the train work. much less fly. when we see it on the screen. I guess it can be somewhat confusing but it does help explain how on earth the train was so futuristic.
I would recommend this story to all fans of the series. I feel it is well written and, I feel, it helps add to the sense of adventure we saw in the films. It has constant skips through various times and the story definitely has a lot of heart. I am hopeful for more quality stories to come soon. I will cross my fingers.
March 5, 2017
Various art styles are the only thing that made me read this one from start to end. And even in this aspect, some part of art was pretty nice, while other part was quite ugly. As for the stories, I think they supposed to go with a plot twist, but twists were not mind-twisting at all (basically, the whole books may be viewed as a parody of 'good guy turned out to be bad guy' trope) and the ideas for these short stories were quite bizarre. I don't know anyone who would find ideas for these stories appealing. There is a lot books out there with shocking content that is at least interesting to explore. And this one is just plain empty.
October 25, 2017
Igual de increíble que el tomo pasado
En la primera historia vemos que el doc experimenta una probada de un universo alterno y descubrimos por qué se incendió la casa del Doc.
En la segunda historia vemos como Marty busca en los cachivaches del Doc algo que lo ayude en un proyecto de ciencias, una historia sencilla si no fuera porque al final del capítulo podemos ver que el Doc encuentra el DeLorean para la máquina del tiempo que todos conocemos
En la primera historia vemos que el doc experimenta una probada de un universo alterno y descubrimos por qué se incendió la casa del Doc.
En la segunda historia vemos como Marty busca en los cachivaches del Doc algo que lo ayude en un proyecto de ciencias, una historia sencilla si no fuera porque al final del capítulo podemos ver que el Doc encuentra el DeLorean para la máquina del tiempo que todos conocemos
December 26, 2017
This was a book of weird tales. The art was good. Some stories were amazing, some were meh, but most were good. Highly recommended for people who want non-traditional stories.
Note - I received a free copy of the book from the publisher. This has not influenced my review in any way.
Note - I received a free copy of the book from the publisher. This has not influenced my review in any way.
December 1, 2017
Un buen final para esta biología que me ha encantado
April 30, 2018
Do you want more adventures of "Back in Time" ??? This is your comicbook !!!
El Doc Brown y Marty vuelven a la carga con más aventuras y más líos espacio-temporales!!!
El Doc Brown y Marty vuelven a la carga con más aventuras y más líos espacio-temporales!!!
November 5, 2025
This feels like the closest thing we’ll ever get to a true Back to the Future Part IV.
Sometime after the events of Part III, the story kicks off when Marty receives a mysterious letter from Clara Brown, written in the past, warning him that something’s gone terribly wrong. And together with Jennifer, he sets off to figure out what happened to Doc, who had supposedly went back to the future but never returned.
From there, things spiral into time-bending chaos, as an amnesiac Doc Brown suddenly reappears in 1985, wearing a diving suit and having no clue who he is or why he’s there, only to find Marty and Jennifer in his lab.
Their reunion is confusing. Doc’s memory is shot, and Marty is desperate to piece things together. The trail leads them to 2035.
The tone of the story gets surprisingly heavy at times. Marty, after his unbelievable adventures, has become addicted to the rush of time travel, haunted by the ordinary calm of everyday life. Adding to Doc Brown moving with his new family, he is nostalgic for the times he shared with his crazy scientist friend.
We revisit some familiar beats from the movies; paradoxes, mistaken identities, and the ticking-clock urgency of getting time back in order. But still feels authentic to the spirit of the original trilogy.
While I don’t think it doesn’t quite reach the cinematic perfection of the original trilogy, this is a surprisingly strong continuation.
If you ever wondered what a Back to the Future 4 might have looked like, this is a pretty good idea of it.
Sometime after the events of Part III, the story kicks off when Marty receives a mysterious letter from Clara Brown, written in the past, warning him that something’s gone terribly wrong. And together with Jennifer, he sets off to figure out what happened to Doc, who had supposedly went back to the future but never returned.
From there, things spiral into time-bending chaos, as an amnesiac Doc Brown suddenly reappears in 1985, wearing a diving suit and having no clue who he is or why he’s there, only to find Marty and Jennifer in his lab.
Their reunion is confusing. Doc’s memory is shot, and Marty is desperate to piece things together. The trail leads them to 2035.
The tone of the story gets surprisingly heavy at times. Marty, after his unbelievable adventures, has become addicted to the rush of time travel, haunted by the ordinary calm of everyday life. Adding to Doc Brown moving with his new family, he is nostalgic for the times he shared with his crazy scientist friend.
We revisit some familiar beats from the movies; paradoxes, mistaken identities, and the ticking-clock urgency of getting time back in order. But still feels authentic to the spirit of the original trilogy.
While I don’t think it doesn’t quite reach the cinematic perfection of the original trilogy, this is a surprisingly strong continuation.
If you ever wondered what a Back to the Future 4 might have looked like, this is a pretty good idea of it.
May 7, 2020
woooh boy, instead of one-shots the series now does multi-issue story arcs! Which is absolutely an improvement on the writing, but does try a lil too hard to shoehorn into that bit of narrative space of movie 3 ending
The fun stuff: 2035 with a "Twenty/15" cafe made up of memes. Still delivered in the "what the 1980s thought the 2015s would look like" aesthetic, but with more millennial hipster jokes.
Keeping stars for the art fails tho. Marty never looks smol &.. u know.. Marty. Action scenes get confusing the way the panels are laid out. Griff's "failsafe" disabling stops being a thing as soon the story needs another violent outburst to happen, etc
The fun stuff: 2035 with a "Twenty/15" cafe made up of memes. Still delivered in the "what the 1980s thought the 2015s would look like" aesthetic, but with more millennial hipster jokes.
Keeping stars for the art fails tho. Marty never looks smol &.. u know.. Marty. Action scenes get confusing the way the panels are laid out. Griff's "failsafe" disabling stops being a thing as soon the story needs another violent outburst to happen, etc
January 2, 2019
Volume two of the series is a complete story spanning issues 6-11 from the ongoing series. After Doc's disappearance in Clara's Story from volume 1, we find Marty McFly return to his now boring life without Doc. Until he is delivered a message during class, a letter from Clara warning him that Doc's gone missing. So, he enlists Jennifer's help and sets out to find what happened to him, backtracking all the elements that were laid in the movies and reaching a satisfactory conclusion.
Recommended!
Recommended!
June 17, 2020
This second volume in the Back to the Future comic series represents a complete story, unlike the previous volume, which was an anthology series.
Its March, 1986 and Marty is missing Doc Brown and all the adventures they had, when they stumble into Doc at his old lab, but find that its Doc. However, its Doc before he built the train at the end of Back to the Future III, but after he'd married Clara Brown.
It's a nice time travel plot that takes us to a new year, introduces some new technology, and generally recaptures the feel of the movies. No, it's not essential, and the emotional stakes aren't at near the same level as the movie, and it's open to how well the art captures the characters. Nevertheless, this is a good time and worth a read for fans of the series. A big improvement on the first volume.
Its March, 1986 and Marty is missing Doc Brown and all the adventures they had, when they stumble into Doc at his old lab, but find that its Doc. However, its Doc before he built the train at the end of Back to the Future III, but after he'd married Clara Brown.
It's a nice time travel plot that takes us to a new year, introduces some new technology, and generally recaptures the feel of the movies. No, it's not essential, and the emotional stakes aren't at near the same level as the movie, and it's open to how well the art captures the characters. Nevertheless, this is a good time and worth a read for fans of the series. A big improvement on the first volume.
July 20, 2017
A nice stop to BTTF's universe.
I am very excited about this project since it is written by Bob Gale and every detail of the movies is well taken care off . This second arc has been delightful, the art is good; however Marty looks with more muscles, when he really was an average guy. Spite of minor details, the artist make a good job and is a good introduction to new BTTF's adventures. A must have for hardcore fans.
I am very excited about this project since it is written by Bob Gale and every detail of the movies is well taken care off . This second arc has been delightful, the art is good; however Marty looks with more muscles, when he really was an average guy. Spite of minor details, the artist make a good job and is a good introduction to new BTTF's adventures. A must have for hardcore fans.
August 22, 2019
This comic does for BACK TO THE FUTURE what TERMINATOR: GENYSIS did for THE TERMINATOR franchise. Namely, it turns a brilliant, straight-forward concept into a convoluted mess of alternate timelines and weak storytelling. None of the characterizations feel on point, and the artwork only enhances the discrepancy.
November 20, 2019
Fairly enjoyable read. A tad confusing at times, but I think that’s just me reading the graphic novel. I love BTTF so it was fun to see more of the characters again, and more of Jennifer (Marty’s girlfriend) who was badass!
I love time travel fiction!
I love time travel fiction!
May 8, 2020
Better story progression than the last. I like how the events are the movies are looped into this as if they were just small drops in the entire story. Still hoping for a much stronger, solid arc, but it's still keeping my nostalgia meter on high.
July 15, 2020
A True Continuation of BTTF
This comic series felt like a true BTTF story. What makes it even better is that it has Bob Gale’s direct involvement, so you know the writers and artists will stay true to the characters. Absolutely loved it!
This comic series felt like a true BTTF story. What makes it even better is that it has Bob Gale’s direct involvement, so you know the writers and artists will stay true to the characters. Absolutely loved it!
Displaying 1 - 30 of 79 reviews