September Mourning: The Complete Collection Volume 1

September Mourning #1-4

by Marc Silvestri (Contributor), David Hine, Emily Lazar

In a world where Reapers prey on the souls of the living, imprisoning them in the shadow-land of Mortem, there is one last hope for humanity. Her name is September Mourning. Half human, half Reaper, she takes the souls of the wicked so the innocent can live again. September has joined forces with a woman who was murdered and restored to life, and a young blind girl who sees only the dead. Together, as The Trinity, they set out to fulfill a prophecy that will finally free all the lost souls who are trapped in Mortem.

Collects SEPTEMBER MOURNING #1-4

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 2019

About the author

Marc Silvestri is an American comic book artist, creator and publisher. He currently acts as the CEO for Top Cow Productions.

Reviews

[Marc Botelho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing graphics and story keep your mind and senses stimulated throughout!

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would have preferred Silvestri to pencil something more than the cover. His artwork tends to be darker, so it would have been a better match for this dark fantasy setting. It's fun while it lasts, but has an iffy ending. What did I expect from female writers, anyway?

The otherwordly land of Morten is slowly merging into our world. September Mourning was a regular girl who was infused with the powers of a reaper of souls. She is drawn to another young woman named Claire, who is blind. Still, as a child she saw the reaper who took her sister's soul. A rogue reaper approached her with the Book of Fate that reveals their mission. Now both of them have become targets, as they try to save the souls of humanity.

Sep has adopted her role as a reaper with a small difference - she claims souls from the recently deceased, but also helps them fulfill one last goal by putting them in another body. Lter her mission becomes to fix an event that led to the souls getting stuck in Mortem, rather than being allowed to reach the afterlife. She, Claire and a soul they saved are the Trinity that has been fortold will fight Fate.

Fate offers Sep the choice of saving the 5 billion souls that are trapped in Mortem over the past 200 years, or the 37 she has saved since gaining her abilities. She can't sacrifice either, but Fate decides to release her, because her presence means Fate can't read the future any more - knowing it became dull for him.

The story ends here, but it's suggested that the struggle continues. Destiny is no longer carved in stone.

[Robert Bussie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story is uneven and takes an interesting concept and does nothing with it. Some of the concept art in the back of the book is gorgeous, however the art within the story are done by different artist and is just average.

[Mandi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought this at a sale and had never heard about it. The story has the potential to be really interesting, but it was over so quickly! It feels like there should have been another collection to really fill out the story. Graphics look good, but the story seems rushed.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m found the music first, and I like a bunch of it. The concept is interesting, making a graphic novel, music, and performing it altogether. But the book falls flat. The story is weird at best, and it is rushed. I wouldn’t recommend it.

[Tabitha Gray · Rating 2 out of 5]

Decent concept, amateurish execution.

[Anniken Haga · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this comic up on a whim, mostly based on the artstyle. It reminded me of a friend. Still does. I have no relationship to the band.

As comics go, this was far from the best I've read. The first half was a lot of info-dumping - that could have been made into an interesting ARC - and fighting. We didn't get a plot before the second half, and then with was rushed and now feels unfinished.

The art was ok, but I prefer the art in the second half.

I did like that there was a blind girl in the story, even if I wish the way she "saw" the world was better explained.

[Larico Harley · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story was short and a bit boring. I guess I should have looked inside before I picked it up at the library but Silvestri only drew the cover and provided no interior artwork. He could have at least provided some extra pinup work. I gave it two stars because I could follow the story but no more because it wasn’t interesting enough to recommend to anyone else. Maybe if you were into the band.

[Brian Hardacker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Freaking awesome

[Tony Riddle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story that accompanies the live show and music creating an entirely new adventure to stimulate and intrigue the reader / listener

[Edward Davies · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was pretty short, and felt rushed at the start, but it did eventually get going...