Borrowed Time Volume 1: Flight 19

Borrowed Time

by Neal Shaffer, Joe Infurnari (Illustrator)

Taylor Devlin's life is the picture of perfect urban living. He has a great apartment with great furnishings. He is young, handsome and successful. He has a beautiful girlfriend who has just given him a wonderful watch for his birthday. Everything is perfect. But when he agreed to go to the Bermuda Triangle for a writing assignment, he never knew what he would be leaving behind. Borrowed Time is the tale of a man returning from a mysterious accident at sea, only to face a bigger challenge of understanding exactly how and why his world has changed. It is a story about Taylor being out-of-synch with the physical world and his quest to return to the life he once knew and the woman he still loves.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Supernatural, Short Stories

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2006

Reviews

[Timothy McNeil · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a hard one to rate. It is a wholly incomplete story (and the second volume may require an actual purchase in order to read), and one that seems to be in an odd rush to get started that there isn't much time setting up the world the impact of the reveal. This rush is somewhat mystifying as Shaffer and Infurnari present pleanty of pages with limited dialogue; there was plenty of opportunity to build the setting.

I like the style of the art, but I don't feel that it did an acceptable job of conveying any kind of kinetic experience (except for a single punch).

[Rakisha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I borrowed this book from the Young Adult section of my library, but I don't think this is a young adult title. This tells the story of an adult man who gets sucked into an alternative realtiy created by the Bermuda Triangle. Not exactly the stuff that teens are jumping to read. However, I liked it a lot. It was a good set up for the sequential volumes. It tapped into Twilight Zone/X-Files/Outer Limit loving side.

[Mirvan. Ereon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay. Nothing much for this. Kinda very serious but I was expecting for more action. Well, it is the first book so I guess I should wait for more

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I could really have gotten hooked on this. Too bad it was never finished.

[Ayacchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need volume 2!

[Evad · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting look at the Bermuda Triangle. I can't wait to see where this goes.