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Boneyard #1
Boneyard, Volume 1
Follows the adventures of Michael Paris after he inherits a cemetery in the town of Raven's Hollow and quickly discovers that it is inhabited by vampires, demons, and witches.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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Richard Moore
29 books10 followersRichard Moore (born Fredrick William Morehead) is an American writer and artist of comic books.
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April 10, 2025
Moore’s artistic style is so clean and precise and nostalgic for 90s indie comics. It’s also great digging into a comic that’s actually funny. Supernatural comedy with some neat characters - this was a lucky chance pick up, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of it at some point.
September 21, 2024
I believe there are seven volumes to Richard Moore's 'Boneyard' series and I have the first four of them on my shelf, so it's about time I dived into book one. It is very much a traditional book one in many ways, introducing us to the concept of the series, its primary setting and its lead characters, while wrapping up a coherent story in the process, but clearly setting us up for the next book that will follow. This came out in 2002, with each further volume following annually until book six, with the final volume wrapping up the series in 2010. Why that took so long, I have no idea, but they do collect twenty-eight issues of comic books, so maybe that plays a part.
The lead character is Michael Paris, who starts the book in someone else's vehicle having begged a ride to Raven's Hollow after his own car broke down on the way. He's never visited before, but he has inherited some property from his grandfather and he's only planning to go there now in order to sign the paperwork to sell it to the local council. He has no intention of keeping it, which is odd, given that he doesn't even know what it is. That sort of inheritance is how gothic novels begin and who wouldn't want a vast old mansion in the middle of nowhere?
That isn't what he gets, of course, because this series is called 'Boneyard' and it's pretty accurate. His grandfather left him the town cemetery, hardly a vast old mansion in the middle of nowhere. However, he's held up from selling it, because he arrives—on foot, because his ride refuses to set tyre inside the place—to find the townsfolk of Raven's Hollow marching through town with police department-provided torches so they can destroy the same cemetery he was aiming to sell them. What's more, they're marching behind the mayor and the sheriff, so it's a pretty unanimous deal.
Well, not quite. Behind the gates of the cemetery are the denizens of the cemetery, the evil that the townsfolk want to destroy, and they're the wildest bunch of characters a new protagonist can hope to meet. Unlike the mob, who appear both calm and unhinged, which is suspicious in itself, it has to be said that this myriad of monsters seem to be a lot more down to earth. Clearly, there's a story here and Paris—he goes by his surname, for reasons we aren't yet let in on—does have the common decency to hear both sides out.
Of course, we're meant to be on the side of the monsters and it doesn't take long for us to get on board with that. After all, we hardly meet the regular folk at their best and when they shower as many gifts as they can manage onto Paris back in town, it's clearly meant to be a bribe. They have no particular wish to help him, so it's all in aid of their goal, which seems extremely destructive. I don't need to have an affinity for the misfits of society to see that. There's no overt preachiness here and writer/artist Richard Moore doesn't appear to phrase this as a metaphor, but it's easy to see it as one, with the townsfolk as those who preserve the status quo and the monsters as those who are, to borrow a phrase, the strange and unusual.
It was interesting to me that Moore hit us with all these monsters in a single shot very early on in the book. They're all there, lined up on a landscape shot on the ninth page, behind the iron gates of the cemetery that make it seem a little like an identity parade at the local police station. Most obvious among them, and a sort of de facto leader is a young—well, she looks it, even if she's very old indeed—vampire by the name of Abbey, short for Abigail. They clearly share some charisma in the early scenes, so I fully expect this relationship to grow, but it's entirely platonic here.
The rest are a real set of characters. There's Sid the cigar smoking skeleton; Ralph the werewolf, who never leaves wolf form and never takes off his shades; Mr. Vincent, the stereotypical gloomy undertaker, with his practice corpse; Edgar, inevitably a sentient raven; Nightcrawler, some sort of underground dweller who manages to tunnel effortlessly in three pairs of glasses; Hildy the much-obscured witch, who we meet trying to cook Glomp, a whiny demon who was using her cauldron as a hot tub; and Nessie, a buxom female Creature from the Black Lagoon, who's all over Paris like a rash in front of her husband, the gigantic Brutus. Oh, and guarding the cemetery gates are a pair of gargoyles named Leon and Boris.
That's just a quick runthrough, but they're all worthy characters in their own right who only hint a little at their potential in this opening volume. The one we spend most time with is Abbey, a vamp who doesn't bite—as she tells Paris—but does save his life when someone, very likely the mayor, tries to run them both down with his speeding car. I liked Abbey a lot but I wanted to spend more time with the others too. I don't know if Moore was inspired by Clive Barker's Cabal, later filmed as Nightbreed, but he certainly built this series with exactly the same mindset, just replacing the horror with an abundant layer of humour.
Frankly, whether this works or not relies rather heavily on that humour. The art is tasty and drawn with plenty of detail but it's deliberately done with minimal lines, so it's not likely to be the draw for potential readers or the reason to stay for those who read this book. The story is beginning at this point, so we're not entirely hooked on what's going on yet. There is enough here to keep me for sure, so I'll dive into the following books that I have. What works most for me is that sense of humour, because it's right up my alley. If it isn't up yours, then you're not as likely to follow up by reading the rest.
To give one example, Paris wakes up in the Raven's Hollow Inn on his first night to find Abbey hung upside down outside his window, tapping on it to get his attention. He's a little shocked, which he has every reason to be, however cute she might look, and surreptitiously feels in a drawer behind him for a Gideon Bible to protect himself. Thinking he's found it, he waves it at her only to realise that it's the Yellow Pages instead. I like that as much as I like the fact that even the real deal isn't going to have any effect either.
All in all, this isn't a long or complex read, but it's a fun little escape from our world into one that looks rather like it but clearly isn't and that's never a bad thing. Bring on book two!
Originally posted at the Nameless Zine in March 2024:
https://www.thenamelesszine.org/Illus...
Index of all my Nameless Zine reviews:
https://books.apocalypselaterempire.com/
The lead character is Michael Paris, who starts the book in someone else's vehicle having begged a ride to Raven's Hollow after his own car broke down on the way. He's never visited before, but he has inherited some property from his grandfather and he's only planning to go there now in order to sign the paperwork to sell it to the local council. He has no intention of keeping it, which is odd, given that he doesn't even know what it is. That sort of inheritance is how gothic novels begin and who wouldn't want a vast old mansion in the middle of nowhere?
That isn't what he gets, of course, because this series is called 'Boneyard' and it's pretty accurate. His grandfather left him the town cemetery, hardly a vast old mansion in the middle of nowhere. However, he's held up from selling it, because he arrives—on foot, because his ride refuses to set tyre inside the place—to find the townsfolk of Raven's Hollow marching through town with police department-provided torches so they can destroy the same cemetery he was aiming to sell them. What's more, they're marching behind the mayor and the sheriff, so it's a pretty unanimous deal.
Well, not quite. Behind the gates of the cemetery are the denizens of the cemetery, the evil that the townsfolk want to destroy, and they're the wildest bunch of characters a new protagonist can hope to meet. Unlike the mob, who appear both calm and unhinged, which is suspicious in itself, it has to be said that this myriad of monsters seem to be a lot more down to earth. Clearly, there's a story here and Paris—he goes by his surname, for reasons we aren't yet let in on—does have the common decency to hear both sides out.
Of course, we're meant to be on the side of the monsters and it doesn't take long for us to get on board with that. After all, we hardly meet the regular folk at their best and when they shower as many gifts as they can manage onto Paris back in town, it's clearly meant to be a bribe. They have no particular wish to help him, so it's all in aid of their goal, which seems extremely destructive. I don't need to have an affinity for the misfits of society to see that. There's no overt preachiness here and writer/artist Richard Moore doesn't appear to phrase this as a metaphor, but it's easy to see it as one, with the townsfolk as those who preserve the status quo and the monsters as those who are, to borrow a phrase, the strange and unusual.
It was interesting to me that Moore hit us with all these monsters in a single shot very early on in the book. They're all there, lined up on a landscape shot on the ninth page, behind the iron gates of the cemetery that make it seem a little like an identity parade at the local police station. Most obvious among them, and a sort of de facto leader is a young—well, she looks it, even if she's very old indeed—vampire by the name of Abbey, short for Abigail. They clearly share some charisma in the early scenes, so I fully expect this relationship to grow, but it's entirely platonic here.
The rest are a real set of characters. There's Sid the cigar smoking skeleton; Ralph the werewolf, who never leaves wolf form and never takes off his shades; Mr. Vincent, the stereotypical gloomy undertaker, with his practice corpse; Edgar, inevitably a sentient raven; Nightcrawler, some sort of underground dweller who manages to tunnel effortlessly in three pairs of glasses; Hildy the much-obscured witch, who we meet trying to cook Glomp, a whiny demon who was using her cauldron as a hot tub; and Nessie, a buxom female Creature from the Black Lagoon, who's all over Paris like a rash in front of her husband, the gigantic Brutus. Oh, and guarding the cemetery gates are a pair of gargoyles named Leon and Boris.
That's just a quick runthrough, but they're all worthy characters in their own right who only hint a little at their potential in this opening volume. The one we spend most time with is Abbey, a vamp who doesn't bite—as she tells Paris—but does save his life when someone, very likely the mayor, tries to run them both down with his speeding car. I liked Abbey a lot but I wanted to spend more time with the others too. I don't know if Moore was inspired by Clive Barker's Cabal, later filmed as Nightbreed, but he certainly built this series with exactly the same mindset, just replacing the horror with an abundant layer of humour.
Frankly, whether this works or not relies rather heavily on that humour. The art is tasty and drawn with plenty of detail but it's deliberately done with minimal lines, so it's not likely to be the draw for potential readers or the reason to stay for those who read this book. The story is beginning at this point, so we're not entirely hooked on what's going on yet. There is enough here to keep me for sure, so I'll dive into the following books that I have. What works most for me is that sense of humour, because it's right up my alley. If it isn't up yours, then you're not as likely to follow up by reading the rest.
To give one example, Paris wakes up in the Raven's Hollow Inn on his first night to find Abbey hung upside down outside his window, tapping on it to get his attention. He's a little shocked, which he has every reason to be, however cute she might look, and surreptitiously feels in a drawer behind him for a Gideon Bible to protect himself. Thinking he's found it, he waves it at her only to realise that it's the Yellow Pages instead. I like that as much as I like the fact that even the real deal isn't going to have any effect either.
All in all, this isn't a long or complex read, but it's a fun little escape from our world into one that looks rather like it but clearly isn't and that's never a bad thing. Bring on book two!
Originally posted at the Nameless Zine in March 2024:
https://www.thenamelesszine.org/Illus...
Index of all my Nameless Zine reviews:
https://books.apocalypselaterempire.com/
September 19, 2014
Boneyard, Vol. 1 was on display today in the Teen Annex at my local library (in anticipation of Halloween?). A quick read, Boneyard introduces a small town that has a cemetery full of monsters and a population of torch-toting locals who want it destroyed. The images seem a bit cramped on the over-sized page and weren't particularly inspiring. The humor is fairly heavy-handed, though the monsters are somewhat endearing. I'm not sure I need to read the rest of the series, though I am a bit intrigued by the mayor.
June 7, 2022
There are some books that you read that just keep your attention and you are not really sure why. It isn’t really the depth of the story or the power of the dialog or even the eye-catching nature of the images. This story is in the category mentioned in the first sentence and fits all of the criteria listed in the second. Michael Paris is a rather ordinary single man on his way to the remote town of Raven Hollow. His eccentric grandfather recently died and left him a small plot in the town. Michael has never seen it and has no interest in it so he is going there to sign the papers so that the city can buy it from him.
However, when his car breaks down he hitches a ride and has to walk the last segment. When he arrives he finds the townsfolk carrying torches and being whipped into a fever pitch with the goal being to go to Michael’s property and burn the tenants out. The property that he has inherited is a graveyard and it is inhabited by a collection of lovable monsters. They are largely from typical monster stock but with notable exceptions. The vampire is a lovely girl named Abbey that promises she won’t bite; there is a skeleton, a wisecracking black bird and a creature similar to that from the black lagoon that is female with barely covered large breasts. She also has the hots for Michael, which is a bit of a problem, as her husband is a behemoth that would dwarf the wrestler Andre the Giant.
Michael generally takes it all in stride, except after he tries to pull Abbey from the path of a car and only succeeds in pulling off her top. At that point he protests a great deal about what he wasn’t really gawking at. The idea of a man verbally stumbling over seeing the breasts of a good-looking female vampire is very amusing.
The story has so many slightly humorous moments and they are so synergistically compatible that the end result is a very good story. Some points were so memorable that I had to go back and read them again when I was writing this review.
However, when his car breaks down he hitches a ride and has to walk the last segment. When he arrives he finds the townsfolk carrying torches and being whipped into a fever pitch with the goal being to go to Michael’s property and burn the tenants out. The property that he has inherited is a graveyard and it is inhabited by a collection of lovable monsters. They are largely from typical monster stock but with notable exceptions. The vampire is a lovely girl named Abbey that promises she won’t bite; there is a skeleton, a wisecracking black bird and a creature similar to that from the black lagoon that is female with barely covered large breasts. She also has the hots for Michael, which is a bit of a problem, as her husband is a behemoth that would dwarf the wrestler Andre the Giant.
Michael generally takes it all in stride, except after he tries to pull Abbey from the path of a car and only succeeds in pulling off her top. At that point he protests a great deal about what he wasn’t really gawking at. The idea of a man verbally stumbling over seeing the breasts of a good-looking female vampire is very amusing.
The story has so many slightly humorous moments and they are so synergistically compatible that the end result is a very good story. Some points were so memorable that I had to go back and read them again when I was writing this review.
December 17, 2017
This black and white comic follows Michael Paris who's recently inherited property in Raven Hollow and finds out that property is a cemetery. When he arrives in town, the mayor and sheriff eagerly greet him, hoping that Michael will sell the property to the town so they can tear it down. However, their overwhelming enthusiasm brings Michael to the gates of the cemetery where he meets a collection of undead characters who want to convince him to keep the property. There's a few misadventures, he of course finds the undead to be a pretty solid crew, and he resists selling the property.
This comic is short and predictable and doesn't leave me clamoring to find the next volume. It was a fun short read, but I don't know if I'll follow up on the series.
This comic is short and predictable and doesn't leave me clamoring to find the next volume. It was a fun short read, but I don't know if I'll follow up on the series.
March 28, 2018
Decided to finish off as much of Richard Moore's Boneyard series as the library could give me - I finally found a copy of vol. 1 listed separately from the other three volumes, so I read it (vol. 3 isn't available, and vol. 4 is next to me, to be read next).
I enjoyed vol. 2 when I read it, but vol. 1 doesn't quite click. Moore seems more concerned with establishing the characters, so the humor doesn't flow as naturally, and the big finale - the mayor's plot to take over the cemetary - seems half-assed. Moore's art is still very good, however, and there are some enjoyable moments throughout the book. It just doesn't congeal into a satisfying whole as vol. 2 did.
I enjoyed vol. 2 when I read it, but vol. 1 doesn't quite click. Moore seems more concerned with establishing the characters, so the humor doesn't flow as naturally, and the big finale - the mayor's plot to take over the cemetary - seems half-assed. Moore's art is still very good, however, and there are some enjoyable moments throughout the book. It just doesn't congeal into a satisfying whole as vol. 2 did.
August 18, 2019
Amusing take on horror tropes, with a jeans wearing sexy vampire, wisecracking gargoyles above the cemetery gate. Add to the mix a female creature from the Black Lagoon with a roving eye despite having a husband called "Brute".
So what do you do when you inherit a cemetery in a town covered in permanent shadow. Arriving to claim his inheritance, Michael Paris is greeted by the sight of the townspeople gathered in the town centre holding burning torches, a la Karloff's Frankenstein. Then things get complicated.....
So what do you do when you inherit a cemetery in a town covered in permanent shadow. Arriving to claim his inheritance, Michael Paris is greeted by the sight of the townspeople gathered in the town centre holding burning torches, a la Karloff's Frankenstein. Then things get complicated.....
September 12, 2018
I read it a long time ago and it made me laugh. It still made me laugh. I look forward to seeing the rest of the series now.
December 29, 2018
Great grave yard adventure book
December 27, 2020
Ok, fun idea, but didn't really grab me.
March 4, 2019
Tomo 1 de los 4 editados en castellano por Norma. Publicado como #16 de la Colecicón Made in Hell, en un formato más pequeño que los demás libros de la colección.
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June 15, 2010How in the hell did I miss this series – it totally rocks.
In the first book – Michael who likes to go by the name Paris is left a cemetery by his grandfather. Yup you heard me right – but this cemetery is not like any cemetery you have ever heard of, it has people or things that are labelled as people living in it and they are from one extreme to the next.
Paris ends up in the middle of a tug of war between the people of the town Raven Hollow who wants the placed flattened to the ground and the residents of cemetery who just wants Paris to give them a chance to prove their worth.
Things goes to hell in a hand basket when the sheriff takes matters into his own hands and the fire works begins in earnest.
This was a blast of a books to read. I saw this peeking out at me in the library a few weeks and the style of drawing made me grab the first three in the series and the rest is a few fun filled evenings for me. The drawings are clean, clear and very crisp in the detail. The illustrator uses alot of dark colour and this fits in with the quite dark atmosphere of the cemetery.
The characters Moore introduces me to are irreverent, irregular and a whole lot of trouble all rolled into one. This is not for kids, as there is quite a bit of sexual overtones and the whole demon, hell, devil plotline might be something left for an older teenager to read.
This first book ends on a bit of a bit of a cliff hangers, as Michael and the team (although gang is probably a better word to describe them) still are not in the clear in regards to the cemetery and it’s future.
In the first book – Michael who likes to go by the name Paris is left a cemetery by his grandfather. Yup you heard me right – but this cemetery is not like any cemetery you have ever heard of, it has people or things that are labelled as people living in it and they are from one extreme to the next.
Paris ends up in the middle of a tug of war between the people of the town Raven Hollow who wants the placed flattened to the ground and the residents of cemetery who just wants Paris to give them a chance to prove their worth.
Things goes to hell in a hand basket when the sheriff takes matters into his own hands and the fire works begins in earnest.
This was a blast of a books to read. I saw this peeking out at me in the library a few weeks and the style of drawing made me grab the first three in the series and the rest is a few fun filled evenings for me. The drawings are clean, clear and very crisp in the detail. The illustrator uses alot of dark colour and this fits in with the quite dark atmosphere of the cemetery.
The characters Moore introduces me to are irreverent, irregular and a whole lot of trouble all rolled into one. This is not for kids, as there is quite a bit of sexual overtones and the whole demon, hell, devil plotline might be something left for an older teenager to read.
This first book ends on a bit of a bit of a cliff hangers, as Michael and the team (although gang is probably a better word to describe them) still are not in the clear in regards to the cemetery and it’s future.
December 14, 2010
Michael Paris inherits a cemetery when his grandfather passes away. He intends to sell it to the city that owns the surrounding property, until he discovers an angry mob waiting to burn it to the ground and meets the group of freaks living inside it. Abbey, the lovely vampire, offers to show Paris around the cemetery, and introduces him to its many denizens. There’s Hildy the buxom witch, who looks a bit like a dwarf and is mostly hat, nose, and boobs – possibly beard, too; Glump the demon, who is afraid of socks; Nessie the scantily clad merwoman (although she’s voluptuous, she’s not really what I’d call attractive – maybe because I prefer my women with noses and nostrils, which she lacks) who is married to Brutus – think Frankenstein; and more! Mayor Wormwood takes matters into his own hands, however, and starts the demolition without consulting Paris. Paris races in to save the day and Wormwood takes on his true form (apparently, he’s Satan) and carries Paris off to hell, where he tries to convince him to do the right thing (through torture, torments, and seductive promises). When Paris doesn’t budge, Wormwood becomes a mass of bees and disappears, making everyone think his reign of terror (or whatever it was) is over. The townspeople help repair the damage to the cemetery. There are a lot of long, meaningful looks exchanged between Paris and Abbey.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 30, 2010
Seriously. Why this isn't a more mainstream title or hasn't been picked up for a big screen adaptation is beyond me. It's got everything that people like. Humor, romantic tensions, misunderstood monsters & vampires, mysterious uncles & horrible plans. The characters are all highly likeable too. Even when characters are evil you still love reading about them.
The story follows a young man named Michael Paris who inherits an old graveyard from an uncle in the town of Raven's Hollow. The townspeople are all horribly eager to have him sell said graveyard so it can be turned into something other than a graveyard, but what nobody tells him is that the graveyard is inhabited by some very living characters. And they're not at all happy that they may be evicted.
I absolutely loved the way Moore not only lovingly draws, but develops his characters. While everything might seem a little overly simplistic at first, trust me- there's a lot of depth here.
Buy this comic book. You really won't be dissapointed by it if you are a fan of fun indie comics. This may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's honestly something that I would imagine most people enjoying.
The story follows a young man named Michael Paris who inherits an old graveyard from an uncle in the town of Raven's Hollow. The townspeople are all horribly eager to have him sell said graveyard so it can be turned into something other than a graveyard, but what nobody tells him is that the graveyard is inhabited by some very living characters. And they're not at all happy that they may be evicted.
I absolutely loved the way Moore not only lovingly draws, but develops his characters. While everything might seem a little overly simplistic at first, trust me- there's a lot of depth here.
Buy this comic book. You really won't be dissapointed by it if you are a fan of fun indie comics. This may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's honestly something that I would imagine most people enjoying.
September 19, 2008
I like to keep up on what middle school students are reading. I especially like to read books recommended by my students. This was a recommendation from a 'goth-girl' at my last school. She loves all things vampire, and so there's little surprise that this is about...a vampire.
Personally, I think it's cute. I thought the art was OK, nothing spectacular, buy it was nice. I didn't like the way Abby is drawn. I can't put my finger on it, but she seem's too cartoonish to me. Paris and the werewolf are my favorites. I find the character of the skeleton annoying and the gargoyles entertaining.
Professional Review: This is a good addition to a school library. It has a decent plot, varied characters and some bacis themes. There is nothing extraordinary about it, but it will be a good choice for high-interest/low-level readers. There are hints of sexuality, but nothing truely objectionable. Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Personally, I think it's cute. I thought the art was OK, nothing spectacular, buy it was nice. I didn't like the way Abby is drawn. I can't put my finger on it, but she seem's too cartoonish to me. Paris and the werewolf are my favorites. I find the character of the skeleton annoying and the gargoyles entertaining.
Professional Review: This is a good addition to a school library. It has a decent plot, varied characters and some bacis themes. There is nothing extraordinary about it, but it will be a good choice for high-interest/low-level readers. There are hints of sexuality, but nothing truely objectionable. Recommended for ages 12 and up.
October 10, 2008
Richard Moore, Boneyard, vol. 1 (Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 2002)
Michael Paris' grandfather died and left him land in the secluded town of Raven Hollow. When he gets there, intending to do nothing but sell it to the town and go on his merry way, he finds out that the land is actually a cemetery, and that its inhabitants-- some of whom are not at all dead-- would prefer the town not get their hands on it, since the mayor wants to tear the cemetery down and put up a shopping mall. Now Michael has a dilemma-- go ahead and sell to the town, or take over his grandfather's caretaking job, and perhaps get himself involved with Abby, the attractive vampire who's in charge of the boneyard's undead? An interesting beginning, though I'm not entirely sold on the rather blocky artwork. Can't wait to see where this one's going to go. ***
Michael Paris' grandfather died and left him land in the secluded town of Raven Hollow. When he gets there, intending to do nothing but sell it to the town and go on his merry way, he finds out that the land is actually a cemetery, and that its inhabitants-- some of whom are not at all dead-- would prefer the town not get their hands on it, since the mayor wants to tear the cemetery down and put up a shopping mall. Now Michael has a dilemma-- go ahead and sell to the town, or take over his grandfather's caretaking job, and perhaps get himself involved with Abby, the attractive vampire who's in charge of the boneyard's undead? An interesting beginning, though I'm not entirely sold on the rather blocky artwork. Can't wait to see where this one's going to go. ***
January 12, 2012
I unabashedly love this comic. But then, I genuinely love all things Halloween.
It's rare to find a monster comic that is geared towards comedy. This is the only one that I know of that is successful. The characters are pretty stand out, and I could see this as an animated series. The two protagonists of Abby and Paris are pretty whimsically drawn and the series crackles with hilarious one liners from the diverse motley crew of monsters, including a she version of Creature of the Black Lagoon, a witch whose face we can never see past her hair, and a pair of bickering gargoyles.
Recommended for anyone that needs a solid dose of lighthearted Halloween fun.
It's rare to find a monster comic that is geared towards comedy. This is the only one that I know of that is successful. The characters are pretty stand out, and I could see this as an animated series. The two protagonists of Abby and Paris are pretty whimsically drawn and the series crackles with hilarious one liners from the diverse motley crew of monsters, including a she version of Creature of the Black Lagoon, a witch whose face we can never see past her hair, and a pair of bickering gargoyles.
Recommended for anyone that needs a solid dose of lighthearted Halloween fun.
January 31, 2015
This was a nice surprise of a trade. My library had a copy, and because it was free I gave it a go. This is probably something I would have never read otherwise, but I'm glad I stumbled onto it.
This book didn't set my world on fire, but it had some really amusing dialog and situations, as well as some genuine heart that made it a pleasure to read. Plus, I'm a sucker for books that feature found families, so this had that going for it too.
Unfortunately, my library only has the first volume, but I enjoyed this enough to buy the other volumes.
This book didn't set my world on fire, but it had some really amusing dialog and situations, as well as some genuine heart that made it a pleasure to read. Plus, I'm a sucker for books that feature found families, so this had that going for it too.
Unfortunately, my library only has the first volume, but I enjoyed this enough to buy the other volumes.
July 12, 2017
The copy I read was oversized, but I feel it may have worked better in a smaller format. The pacing was awkwardly fast in some places but dragged in others, and the characters didn't do it for me - especially the weirdly oversexualized fish monster. The only thing I can say is that the art was nice enough, and in my memory, the panels have their own internal motion, more like a clip from an animated cartoon than a static comic panel. However, neat as that is, it's not enough to make me pick up the rest of the series.
November 14, 2010
Not a bad little book. But I have to admit there was something about the shape of the protagonist's chin and nose that bugged me. (How's that for being overly picky?) If my daughter picks up a subsequent volume, I'll definitely read it. Don't think I would buy one myself, though.
March 24, 2011
Purchased through Comixology.
A family of misfit monsters must convince the new owner of their cemetery that he doesn't want to sell their home to the sheriff in town. The new owner must come to terms with exactly what in the world his grandfather has bequeathed to him.
A family of misfit monsters must convince the new owner of their cemetery that he doesn't want to sell their home to the sheriff in town. The new owner must come to terms with exactly what in the world his grandfather has bequeathed to him.
January 28, 2013
i picked this up because i was a little concerned based on a quick glance of some of the artwork. no worries, this is a cute fun story set in a graveyard. the curves on the women might be a bit exaggerated but it is actually the only mild problem.
October 30, 2015
Quite childish and simple, both the art style and the story.
But also fun, it made a change from most of the 'comics' I've read recently.
(very chaste) :)
Makes a change to see a 'topless' comic lady preserve her 'modesty'. :)
But also fun, it made a change from most of the 'comics' I've read recently.
(very chaste) :)
Makes a change to see a 'topless' comic lady preserve her 'modesty'. :)
May 7, 2007
Another great graphic novel. One of very, very few series that I found enjoyable enough to purchase. Great art, too!
April 18, 2008
it made me laugh so hard i had water come out my nose
June 9, 2008
cute, enjoyable characters. not stand-alone awesome, but i look forward to reading the next volume.
February 7, 2009
2009.0125-2009.0206
June 14, 2010
This wasn't the greatest comic book I've ever read, but it was enjoyable enough. The characters had charm and the story was fun so I'll probably be checking out Volume 2.
December 30, 2010
Great series of funny (and sexy) monsters in comic form - wish our library owned more of them.
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